Box Cooker Update

     It has been about a month since my group was assigned the solar cooker project. I originally thought that a panel cooker would be the easiest and most efficient solar cooker to make. When I  consulted with my group, they thought that a parabolic cooker would be the most effective cooker. Finally, we decided to make a box cooker because the supplies we brought in were tough to bend into basically a giant bowl. We had a box, some foam insulation, reflective bubble wrap, reflective tap, duct tape, and some plexi glass. Then, we assembled those materials with the foam lining the inside of the box and then put the reflective bubble wrap on top of that. That was secured with duct tape and reflective tape to ensure that it would be well insulated. The plexi glass was put over the box and hinged to one edge of the box with duct tape. We used some of the reflective tape over one flap of the box so that light could be reflected into to the box and warm up the pot or whatever was holding the food. That is all my group has done so far, and we have been a pretty good team. We cannot wait to test this thing out and see if it actually works!

Solar Cooker

     I would recommend a panel cooker because it looked like it would be the most simple, effective, and portable design, that does not cost very much. In this design, there is a reflector panel that concentrates solar thermal energy onto a pot insulated with an oven bag. The reflected energy hits and heats the pot, cooking meals inside it. It is also the best choice because it is a simple design that is easy to build. The only materials that this requires to assemble, would be a cardboard box, aluminum foil, glue, tape, a jar, and an oven bag. This would not cost much at all. This would not take a lot of time to assemble either. We would only have to glue aluminum foil to the cardboard and fold it into a panel. This design also gets as hot as 300 degrees F. I think that this design will be the best for what we as a class are doing.

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Works Cited

"SUNNY COOKER." SUNNY COOKER. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2013.

"Wikia." Solar Cooking. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2013