The Solar Cooking Archive

A HotPot outer glass hemispheric bowl with lip, can transfer larger loads to flange rim in tropical kitchens per attached sketch. Building integrated non-imaging (NI) reflector concentration can be at the bottom of the hotpot with no moving parts and no fluid loops.

A community building integrated solar cooker project is being developed that has a stationary CPC reflector trough, with tracking frame end wall reflectors on fabric/film, and earthen vault architecture; for equatorial tropical sites (0-20 degrees latitude) without seismic problems. The solar cooker rectangular 'box' at the outlet of the CPC can be approximately 1m/4ft x 20m/60ft; and the earthen vaults can have rise-spans up to 15m/50ft. There are expressions of interest to participate from: Satprem Maine, architect and executive of earth unit (UNESCO Earthen Architecture) at Auroville Building Centre, India; and Dr. Roland Winston, of the University of California-Merced. Preliminary sketch studies are attached. Funding is being sought for feasibility design studies.