Bashir Ahmad

From Solar Cooking

This article is based on my experiences and studies during my work on use and disuse of solar cookers few years ago. The work was carried out as a Ph.D. study at the Technical University of Denmark. I did my empirical work in 1997 and 1999 in Madras City but mainly in Gujarat State in India, where I visited, met, interviewed and discussed solar cooking, with about 40 urban and rural families who had a solar box cooker at their homes. Many of them did not use their solar cookers, however a small portion of them used it with enthusiasm and benefited lots of economic and other advantages. The author has discussed the problems of solar cooking technology elsewhere among others in an article:

Bashir Ahmad Ph.D., Master of science in technology and engineering

Ejboparken 47 1. th
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark

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