How can you win a prize for something thats already invented?
mangogrooveworkshop - 9/4/09 at 09:27 PM
Prize for 'Sun in the box' cooker
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Painting box
At the heart of the idea is a simple black painted box...
A cheap solar cooker has won first prize in a contest for green ideas.
The Kyoto Box is made from cardboard and can be used for sterilising water or boiling or baking food.
The Kenyan-based inventor hopes it can make solar cooking widespread in the developing world, supplanting the use of wood which is driving
deforestation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7991654.stm
These have been around in Africa as long as the dinosaurs .........unless the people awarding the prize are really thick
Heres the link
http://solarcooking.org/plans/easylid.htm
In that case im going to enter with a new round thing called the wheel.....should catch on
[Edited on 9-4-09 by mangogrooveworkshop]
smart51 - 9/4/09 at 09:32 PM
The difference is that people use the wheel regularly. Few use solar ovens. I'm not too worried, they wouldn't be much use in our part of
the world.
mangogrooveworkshop - 9/4/09 at 09:36 PM
Solar ovens are well used in third world countrys.......
A1 - 10/4/09 at 01:41 AM
erm...its a bit...crap. id have had cold pizza tonight with that.
heck, at least id have saved a couple of milligrams of co2
Richard Quinn - 10/4/09 at 06:38 AM
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Originally posted by A1
erm...its a bit...crap. id have had cold pizza tonight with that.
heck, at least id have saved a couple of milligrams of co2
For night time cooking I've also invented something new. I discovered this
whilst rubbing two sticks together near some kindling and other sticks. It took a while to get going but there was this orangey red flickering light
and warmth. I have called this orangey red flickering light "Dave"!!
hellbent345 - 10/4/09 at 07:48 AM
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Originally posted by Richard Quinn
I have called this orangey red flickering light "Dave"!!
hahahahahahahhhahaha
big_wasa - 10/4/09 at 09:18 AM
Now that was funny
A1 - 10/4/09 at 01:01 PM
oh wow! i want some 'dave'