“A $6 cardboard box that uses solar power to cook food, sterilise water and could help 3 billion poor people cut greenhouse gases, has won a $75 000 prize for ideas to fight global warming. ”
“The Kenyan-based inventor hopes it can make solar cooking widespread in the developing world, supplanting the use of wood which is driving deforestation.”
“Costing 5 euros ($6.60) to make, it can also make it easier to boil polluted water.”
“We’re saving lives and saving trees,” the Kyoto Box’s developer Jon Boehmer, a Norwegian based in Kenya, said in a statement.” Boehmer then went on to say that he “would carry out trials in 10 countries”, including South Africa, India and Indonesia. He would then collect data to back an application for carbon credits.”
Jon, this sure looks like a great concept, keep up the good work.
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Amazing and ingenious..what is the canister in the middle of the box and what is the purpose of it? this reminds me of a cooking box we did for the girl scouts used with a few charcoal to make cup cakes in an orange peel. You cut the orange in half and scoop out the orange and fill with cup cake batter and cook in a cardboard box lined with foil using a few pieces of hot charcoal at the bottom works well and the cup cakes get the orange taste from the orange shell.