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This week's featured article: The Fun-Panel
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The Fun-Panel solar panel cooker can be built in less than an hour from a single cardboard box and some aluminum foil. This is significant since traditional solar panel cookers such as the CooKit often require a large sheet of cardboard for construction. The Fun-Panel can also be adjusted more easily for different sun angles. This very powerful cooker is a true breakthough.
Teong Tan, the inventor, based the cooker on Steven Jones's Funnel Cooker with the following changes: The Funnel cooker is very efficient in capturing sunlight with its 60° conical reflecting surface. However, it has an unstable shape that makes it difficult to keep the cooker and the pot in position. Also it is not possible to fit a regular size cooking pot into a regular size Funnel cooker because of limited space at the lower end of the cooker. The Fun-Panel retains the very efficient conical reflecting surface of the funner cooker but eliminates its disadvantages.
 Teong has recently made slight modifications to improve the cooker. The construction plans reflect the new version. Advantages
- It's easy to figure out how to cut and fold using the cardboard from a single box -- you don't need a big sheet of perfect cardboard.
- All cuts are 90 degree cuts -- no curves.
- It is easily scaled to the size of cardboard box you have on hand.
- You can cook at low sun angles (morning and evening or high latitudes)
Disadvantages
- This cardboard cooker is not waterproof.
For construction plans, see main article: Fun-Panel
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Compendium of solar cooker designs
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| Dr. Ashok Kundapur has created a detailed compendium of existing solar cooker designs. The goal of the compendium is to show all major designs and their variations so solar cooker designers can avoid wasting time on designs which have already been tested. You can add to the compendium by editing any of the pages.
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Solar Cookers International Association
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| The Solar Cookers International Association was formed under the umbrella of Solar Cookers International at the 2006 International Conference on Solar Cooking and Food Processing in Granada, Spain. By the end of 2006, 99 individuals and 56 organizations from 32 countries had become founding members.
SCIA's aim is the wider spread of solar cooking, pasteurizing, and food processing through more partnerships with UN agencies, international development and relief organizations, policy makers, businesses and networks related to women, health and energy.
Everyone is invited to join and participate.
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