Solar Cooking Database

"Solar Cookers International (SCI) spreads solar cooking awareness and skills worldwide, particularly in areas with plentiful sunshine and diminishing sources of cooking fuel. Since its founding in 1987, SCI has enabled over 30,000 families in Africa to cook with the sun's energy, freeing women and children from the burdens of gathering firewood and carrying it for miles. Tens of thousands of individuals and organizations — from all over the world — have learned about solar cooking through SCI’s excellent publications and have benefited from SCI’s information exchange networks, research, technical support, and the SCI-sponsored, internationally recognized Internet resource for solar cooking information: the Solar Cooking World Network wiki-based website. Additionally, SCI helps all solar cooker promoters through advocacy efforts with governments and nongovernmental organizations, and through its consultative status with the United Nations.

SCI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with headquarters in Sacramento, California, USA and an office in Nairobi, Kenya. SCI’s nonprofit, tax-deductible work is supported by generous individuals, private foundations, and sales of solar cookers and supplies. If you are a current member of Solar Cookers International, we thank you. If you are learning about solar cooking for the first time, please explore the possibilities and join us in teaching the world that with sunshine, cooking is free and easy."... more

"SUN OVENS International, Inc. is striving to develop and implement comprehensive solar cooking programs that will radically decrease the developing worlds dependence on fuel wood and dung as the primary cooking fuels while benefiting the environment, raising the standard of living and improving the health of the poor worldwide."

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The SOS exists to promote solar cooking to the American public and to provide a way to partner with the over 2 billion people worldwide who lack adequate fuel for cooking their food.
Persons Helping People (PHP) (the sponsor of the Solar Oven Society) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation established in 1991 and based in Minnesota. Following the wishes of its first donor, Virginia Persons, PHP is dedicated to helping alleviate hunger in developing countries by helping people help themselves.
Our Focus
Production of low-cost, high-performance, durable, aesthetically-pleasing solar ovens Establishing multi-faceted centers in developing countries for: Displays of varieties of solar cookers Education and training - Assembly of solar cookers - Demonstrations of solar cooking - Wholesale and retail sales - Financing of solar cookers via village banking systems - Encouraging Americans to use solar cookers and support a world wide solar cooking effort.

Gadhia Solar Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd.
provide Solar Thermal Energy Solutions using Solar Concentrator Technology of Dr.Ing. Dieter Seifert of Germany and Physicist Wolfgang Scheffler of Austria. As a Solar Engineering Company, during the last 15 years, we have developed expertise in:

Our Focus

• offering innovative solutions System
• Design Manufacturing and Construction
• Installation and Commissionning
• Operation and Maintainance.

Solar Household Energy (SHE), a 501(c)(3) not-for profit corporation, seeks to harness free enterprise to introduce solar cooking where it can improve quality of life and relieve stress on the environment. Working with private entities, governments, and NGOs, SHE designs and oversees training and distribution projects in Mexico, Central America and Africa.
Currently, more than half of the world’s population relies on biomass (wood, animal dung and crop residue) for cooking, according to the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO). LINK This practice causes disease, economic hardship, and environmental degradation. Modern solar cooking ovens like SHE’s “HotPot” offer practical, affordable, long-term relief.

"Our corporation supplies solar cooking devices to satisfied clients world wide, especially to countries where the sun shines enough to halt paying energy duties. Above all, solar energy reduces emission of carbon dioxyde and saves the environment. With the use of solar technology to produce energy and clean water a tremendous amount of diseases can be reduced in the so called third world countries."

"The Lazola project had its origin in South Africa, where in 1998 and 1999 J. Hasler installed a workshop for manufacturing box-cookers. Main features were the training of qualified carpenters to manufacture cooker parts for small serial production and the training of unqualified labourers to assemble cookers. Power-tools in connection with all sorts of jigs were used that allowed easy and accurate working. Whereas the production ran very smoothly, the project as a whole was not very successful. The acceptance of the cookers by the people was reluctant.
Based on this experience and the encouragement of Prof. Schwarzer of the Solar-Institute at Jülich, J. Hasler together with some friends of his designed the LAZOLA 2.
As a result in 2003 the registered, non profit "Lazola-Initiative for Spreading Solar Cooking" was founded at Paderborn, Germany..."

Sun Cooking Australia

SunOK was founded at the end of 2008 in order to provide decentralized energy solutions. For a start the company is re-launching the SUN COOK solar oven, a product that was first presented in 2003, well ahead of its time.

We believe that the current trend in the way humankind overcomes its energy needs will take us from the heavily centralized systems of today, with all the inefficiencies that result from transporting energy over long distances, towards a model relying increasingly on energy generation closer to its point of consumption.

On the other hand we believe that solar appliances can be more widely used if they meet the demanding requirements of today's consumer’s. That’s what we aim for: to design and develop solar appliances renowned for their efficiency, design and convenience.

To achieve our aim we rely mainly on the former project's engineering and management team. And, off course, on the first customers. Those who early realized the SUN COOK’s true value and whose recommendations are the best asset this company might have.

"Solar Cookers International (SCI) spreads solar cooking awareness and skills worldwide, particularly in areas with plentiful sunshine and diminishing sources of cooking fuel. Since its founding in 1987, SCI has enabled over 30,000 families in Africa to cook with the sun's energy, freeing women and children from the burdens of gathering firewood and carrying it for miles. Tens of thousands of individuals and organizations — from all over the world — have learned about solar cooking through SCI’s excellent publications and have benefited from SCI’s information exchange networks, research, technical support, and the SCI-sponsored, internationally recognized Internet resource for solar cooking information: the Solar Cooking World Network wiki-based website. Additionally, SCI helps all solar cooker promoters through advocacy efforts with governments and nongovernmental organizations, and through its consultative status with the United Nations.

SCI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with headquarters in Sacramento, California, USA and an office in Nairobi, Kenya. SCI’s nonprofit, tax-deductible work is supported by generous individuals, private foundations, and sales of solar cookers and supplies. If you are a current member of Solar Cookers International, we thank you. If you are learning about solar cooking for the first time, please explore the possibilities and join us in teaching the world that with sunshine, cooking is free and easy."... more

"Solar Cooker at Cantinawest

On this site we will shed some "sunlight"on a relatively new subject...the art of cooking your everyday food with the power of the Sun.
Admittedly the science of solar cooking is not that new, since it was first attempted on a controlled scale in the mid 1700s by French-Swiss scientist Horace de Saussure. These attempts were first reported in the first-published study of solar cooking in 1767.
Since that time though, relatively little has been accomplished in the field of solar cooking as far as feasibility and practicality on a large scale.
That is, little has been done until just recently...as recently as in the last twenty years.
Much has been learned and applied in the field of Solar Cooking in these past couple of decades."... more

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