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RE: Solar Thermal Cooking: New Interviews

Posted By Luther Krueger 03-28-2024 10:03 AM
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Agreed on having a presence in cities, we need more solar cooks to bring the more manageable sized cookers to community events (such as I've displayed at Minneapolis' Open Streets fairs) and green gatherings. Which brings me to the middle of my trio about the Villager, with Mark Shook detailing how he ...

RE: Solar Thermal Cooking: New Interviews

Posted By Luther Krueger 03-25-2024 06:13 AM
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The window is roughly 4' square, as are the larger reflectors. The gaps between the 4 large reflectors are filled by 4 trapezoidal reflectors, 3.5' tall by perhaps 2' at the top and not quite a foot at the bottom. They lean out and grab at least another 2'x4' of sunlight each, to bounce into the cookbox. ...

Solar Thermal Cooking: New Interviews

Posted By Luther Krueger 03-18-2024 06:41 AM
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It has been a while since I posted here, but many new visits with solar cooks are now online: Solar Cooking Museum I call attention to the third of a series on the Villager Sun Oven, detailing their work to improve this community scale hybrid solar cooker, and get it to the areas most in need due ...

RE: Solar Oven Sun Tracker Question

Posted By Luther Krueger 09-19-2023 09:30 AM
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I'm aware of at least one dual-axis tracker, i.e., he set up a platform with two gears run by mini-solar-panels (recycled from toys, solar lights etc.), to tilt a cooker to face the sun and turn wheels to follow it through the day. Stan Wells is the designer, I interviewed him in my first solar cooking ...

Earth-Wide Solar Cooking Forum Online

Posted By Luther Krueger 04-06-2023 12:10 PM
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I've launched a mostly-weekly Forum for folks who cook with sunlight to hear from the most active proponents, designers, manufacturers, and power-users of solar cookers. Each session will feature one more more guests, with either a pre-recorded conversation or live visit. Email me if you'd like to get ...

RE: Solar Haircuts in Nigeria

Posted By Luther Krueger 02-27-2023 10:56 AM
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Love this! Have any of the sun-powered barbers called their business "Solar E-Clips" ? :D ------------------------------ Luther Krueger Curator Maximo Big Blue Sun Museum of Solar Cooking, Minneapolis [EmailAddress] ------------------------------

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 12-29-2022 08:12 AM
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My latest posted interview is with Ed Pejack, one of the prime movers who created Solar Box Cookers International, shortly after renamed Solar Cookers International. Ed is one who put is action where his mouth was, promoting solar cooking to people in regions with receding forests, undrinkable water, ...

RE: EV's, the other half of solar. Reality EV.

Posted By Luther Krueger 12-05-2022 10:57 AM
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Yeah I think HOA owners should revolt! :) Do they prohibit inside clothes racks? Hope they wouldn't be that invasive We use 'em inside when it's rainy in the summer... From: Joe Utasi Subject: EV's, the other half of solar. Reality EV. I would use a clothesline, but the HOA has rules.... ------ ...

RE: EV's, the other half of solar. Reality EV.

Posted By Luther Krueger 12-05-2022 10:22 AM
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My rare two cents to this forum re: PV. "If you are frugal and sensible about what you use and when (like using your electric dryer only between 11 and 3 when the sun is out,) you can live on 40KWH. (I live off grid, and I can confirm this is possible)." Frugality is relative :) I have 6kw on my roof, ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 07-21-2022 03:32 PM
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I hear ya!... This piece of 2x4 got scorched by a tipped over parabolic, a rainstorm wind blew my otherwise tethered SK-14 over. Fortunately the fence it was attached to was soaked from the rain, otherwise I'd've had a flaming wall to contend with :( Even the sun oven reflectors, when 2 or 3 gang up ...

Do solar panels ever actually, really die?

Posted By Luther Krueger 07-21-2022 09:03 AM
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See this link which I came across: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/19/dead-solar-panels-are-the-hottest-new-recyclables/ My question for photo-voltaic-philes: Are there any efforts to repurpose older panels, i.e., those where the efficiency has dropped below what is needed for the application or system ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 04-11-2022 01:53 PM
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My episode with Mark and Betty just posted, it was a delightful visit! Mark Chalom & Betty Tsosie: Reaffirming Generations of Solar Wisdom YouTube remove preview Mark Chalom & Betty Tsosie: Reaffirming Generations of Solar Wisdom Mark and Betty live out the solar life in their passive ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 04-09-2022 01:01 PM
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Recently the host state for the ASES Conference, New Mexico, has had several of its solar cooking practitioners' stories posted on the Solar Cookers World Network on FaceBook. From my growing cache of solar cooking interviews, check out: *Just published* Rose Marie Kern: Author and solar cooker promoter ...

Solar PV to induction cookers gaining traction: Doug Danley and SunSpotPV.com

Posted By Luther Krueger 03-17-2022 12:05 PM
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One of my interviewees for my solar cooking series said "I'm a [solar] thermal guy." Well Doug Danley is "a PV Guy," all the way, and has gone all in researching PV-to-Induction cookers--their costs, efficiencies, their ease of use and adoption. His SunSpotPV cooker system is--well, a system. An induction ...

Solar cookers and a uniform test for cooking power

Posted By Luther Krueger 01-19-2022 10:39 AM
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Last June Jo and I took a road trip out east and interviewed many deeply committed solar cooker designers, promoters, and power users. Season 2 Episode 13 features Solar Cookers International's Alan Bigelow, who with several others developed a Performance Evaluation Process that met ISO standards for ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 12-23-2021 05:19 PM
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The first efforts years ago focused on simple, inexpensive panel cookers (the CookIt being the most popular model to copy) which was always challenged to compete with fossil fuel or wood fire cooking. Gradually as better box and parabolic cookers became more prevalent, they got the attention of many ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 12-23-2021 10:15 AM
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I've posted my latest video for the Museum's historical archiving project :) If you haven't heard of Sun Buckets yet, well you have now: Link to https://youtu.be/5vWFjsG_dwQ and find out how a "collaboration of collaborations" has resulted in a viable phase-change-material cooking system that is already ...

RE: Connecting Women Installers!

Posted By Luther Krueger 12-10-2021 10:32 AM
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I'd recommend connecting with Juana María Hernández Jarquín, who plays a big role in the Red Mujeres network in Mexico, they work on a wide range of solar applications -- https://solarcooking.fandom.com/wiki/Juana_Mar%C3%ADa_Hern%C3%A1ndez_Jarqu%C3%ADn https://www.facebook.com/juanamaria.hernandezjarquin ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 11-05-2021 04:55 PM
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I just finished a 37 day solar cooking video tour of the western states, with 30+ new episodes for my series: https://www.youtube.com/c/BigBlueSunMuseumofSolarCooking I'm not monetizing the channel, but would love it if all on the ASES list would subscribe. Generally it'll take me a week to edit each ...

RE: Solar Cooking and Drying

Posted By Luther Krueger 09-15-2021 10:05 AM
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S2 Episode 9 from the Big Blue Sun Museum of Solar Cooking: Mary and Jennifer share their many strategies for outreach, education, and networking to expand the use of solar cooking, at home and abroad. Their Solar Education Project is a model for any organization hoping to spread the word. And you can ...