Solar Cooking Nature Made Easy!

Globally, more than 3 billion people depend on biomass to meet their basic energy needs for cooking, boiling water, lighting, and space-heating. The use of these solid fuels on open res or inefcient stoves results in large amounts of a range of health-damaging pollutants, often under conditions of poor household ventilation. For more than half of the worlds population, meeting daily household energy needs can therefore represent a substantial threat to health. It primarily affects developing countries, but marginalized populations in industrialized countries may also be concerned. Women and young children, who may spend many hours in the vicinity of the smoky hearth, are most at risk [Rehfuess EA, Bruce NG and Smith KR]. Solar cooking is the simplest, safest, most convenient way to cook food without consuming fuels or heating up the kitchen. Many people choose to solar cook for these reasons. But for hundreds of millions of people around the world who cook over fires fuelled by wood or dung, and who walk for miles to collect wood or spend much of their meagre incomes on fuel, solar cooking is more than a choice it is a blessing. In 23 countries worldwide, more than 10% of deaths are due to just two environmental risk factors: unsafe water, including poor sanitation and hygiene; and indoor air pollution due to solid fuel use for cooking. Around the world, children under five are the main victims and make up 74% of deaths due to diarrhoeal disease and lower respiratory infections. ------------------------In general, manufacturing of the stable parabolic solar cooker involves much cost which is around 160 USD. Hence, it is being not preferred by larger communities who use fuelwood for their daily needs. Our proposed parabolic solar cooker costs just 60 USD for the whole setup. Moreover it is highly flexible and light weight, hence can be carried along during the move. We achieve this with a specially designed textile fabric made out of Jute fiber. This makes the cooker sustainable. The following table makes a comparison between previously available low-cost lightweight solar cookers made out of bio-degradable (mostly cardboard) materials and our newly proposed solar cooker. Our Solar cooker Already available cookers (CooKit)

95% material used is made from 99% material is from bio-degradable sustainable Jute fibre and rest 5 % cardboards, which are again not

with recyclable composites.

thermoplastic eco-friendly, since they are made from wood pulp. Easy to re-assemble. Not water proof Comparatively slow

Easy to dismantle and re-assemble. Water proof Faster cooking