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If he has a favorite design, happy to quote on it.... -john -----Original Message----- From: William Beaty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Solar cooker? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 10:26:22 -0700 Subject: Entry to Guestbook ------------------------------------------------------ Hi all , I head the Physics Dept.in Gov. High School Atiela and run an N.G.O. for the promotion of basic Edu and Child- centred Dev.(www.geocities.com/orescameroon).Affordable solar furnaces constructed if possible using local materials can transform the lives of my people. In Bamenda where I live energy from petroleum and electricity, being monopolies (in the hands of one corporation) are used as tools to overtax the people. The people are getting poorer and poorer by the day and are resorting more and more to wood for fuel.Deforestation and its consequencies are already visible . The paradox is sunshine is abondant .In my own little way I tried to construct a solar cooker which could be made out of local materials for the cost to be down to the level of the masses.It was challenging but very interesting.Mine didn't work because I had difficulties with the mirror. I wanted to try polished steel for the mirror;I coudn't lay hands on it. I wanted to use pieces of plane mirrors;I had difficulties mounting them. I tried the silvered side of parcelling paper. The result was impressive but fell short of being reliable.(it wrinkles easily). I have not given up yet.We have adopted the solar cooker as our project for next year in the Physics Dept.Meantime if it is possible for anyone out there to construct an effective and reliable solar cooker to cost say, $80 to $100 my organisation can purchase them and make them available to the masses.Thanks Julius shenga Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.geocities.com/orescameroon> <Julius Shenga T> Bamenda, North West Cameroon - Friday, May 05, 2006 at 10:26:21 (PDT) ------------------------------------------------------
