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    The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler
    The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler
    The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler
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    The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler

    By Steven E. Jones

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler - Steven E. Jones

      Project Gutenberg's The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler, by Steven E. Jones

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      Title: The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler

      Author: Steven E. Jones

      Release Date: February 1, 2013 [EBook #5889]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BYU SOLAR COOKER/COOLER ***

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      Note: This version of the eBook includes 11 images.

      How to Make and Use The BYU Solar Cooker/Cooler

      by Steven E. Jones, Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University (BYU), with Colter Paulson, Jason Chesley, Jacob Fugal, Derek Hullinger, Jamie Winterton, Jeannette Lawler, and Seth, David, Nathan, and Danelle Jones.

      Copyright (c) 2002 by Steven E. Jones

      Original web site with this article: http://solarcooking.org/funnel.htm

      [Image: 01.jpg -- Photo description this image shows a cardboard box being used to support a silvery funnel, roughly 3 feet high. The funnel is placed within the box so that the sides of the box hold the funnel upright. Sitting within the base of the funnel is a black jar inside a clear plastic bag. The plastic bag is inflated like a balloon to seal an insulating air pocket around the jar.]

      I. Introduction

      II. How it works

      III. How to Build Your Own Solar Funnel Cooker

      - What You will Need for the Funnel Cooker

      - Construction Steps

      IV. Final Steps

      V. After Cooking

      VI. Tests

      - Tests in Utah

      - Tests in Bolivia

      VII. Water and Milk Pasteurization

      VIII. Safety

      IX. Cooking with the Solar Funnel Cooker

      X. How to Use the Solar Funnel as a Refrigerator/Cooler

      XI. Conclusion: Why We Need Solar Cookers

      XII. Answers to commonly-asked questions

      XIII. Update

      I. Introduction

      A few years ago, I woke up to the fact that half of the world's peoples must burn wood or dried dung in order to cook their food. It came as quite a shock to me, especially as I learned of the illnesses caused by breathing smoke day in and day out, and the environmental impacts of deforestation -not to mention the time spent by people (mostly women) gathering sticks and dung to cook their food. And yet, many of these billions of people live near the equator, where sunshine is abundant and free.

      As a University Professor of Physics with a background in energy usage, I set out to develop a means of cooking food and sterilizing water using the free energy of the sun. First,

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