PCIA Bulletin Issue 22 – This issue provides an overview of the history and current status of solar cooking, highlights successful projects worldwide, and includes an informed discussion of myths and facts about cooking with the sun. Recipes and solar cooking tips are incorporated throughout. PCIA Partners enthusiastically led the development of this issue, with significant contributions from Patricia McArdle, President of the Board of Directors for Solar Household Energy (SHE), and Darwin Curtis, Chairman of SHE.
Full-text of Jan. 2010 issue (pdf, 949KB)
Feature Articles
History of Solar Cooking…………………….. p.2
Opening the World’s Eyes and Ears to
Integrated Solar Cooking………………………… p.3
Options & Challenges Using Solar Cookers…. p.5
Safe Water from Sunshine………………………… p.6
Solar Commercialization…………………………. .. p.7
Solar Cooking Archive Wiki…………………….. .. p.8
Country Spotlights
Sustainable Rural Kitchen in Mexico…………… p.10
ISC and Water Pasteurization in Uganda …… p.11
Mfuwe Solar Cooker Project……………………. .. p.12
Solar Cooking in Madagascar……………………. p.13
Darfur Refugees Cooking with the Sun………. p.14
Solar Cookers in China…………………………… .. p.15
Solar Cooking in Afghanistan…………………. .. p.16
Solar Cooking in Nepal.………………………… .. p.17
Conclusions from Bolivia………………………… p.19
Happenings……………………………………………. p.21
Solar Cooking Map………………………………….p.23
