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Events
Featured international events
- 4-6 June 2024 (Bridgetown, Barbados): Sustainable Energy for All Global Forum - The event will be co-hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the government of Barbados. It is a platform for government, business and finance leaders, entrepreneurs, and youth and community representatives from around the world to come together to broker new partnerships, spur new investment, and address challenges at the nexus of energy, climate, and development. More information...
Online events
- NEW: Thursday, 18 April 2024 (2:30pm-3:15pm EDT), (Washington, D.C., USA): ESMAP Spring Meetings Knowledge Café: Clean Cooking at the Heart of Energy Access - Join ESMAP for this exciting knowledge-sharing opportunity, which will showcase the role of clean cooking as a key part of energy access and energy transition. Presentations by René van Hell, Director of Inclusive Growth, Ministry of Foreign Affair, Netherlands, Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Chairman, Presidential Initiative on Climate, Renewable Energy and Food Security, Sierra Leone, and Chandrasekar Govindarajalu, Practice Manager, ESMAP, World Bank. In-person attendance at World Bank Atrium, MC Front Lobby is for Spring Meetings registrants only. However, you can watch the event online
Requests for proposal
- Decentralized Renewable Energy Solutions utilizing Solar and Bio-Energy - Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments of ScienceDirect, is requesting guest-author submissions. The special issue, VSI: DRES is devoted to publishing research articles reporting the innovative designs and design interventions in solar thermal and bio-energy for decentralized energy systems (DES). It includes i) new and novel designs of prototype or commercial devices and technologies, their development, modeling and simulations and experimental validation; ii) innovations for processes, techniques, utilization, and applications; iii) novel use of materials for improving efficiency, performance, techno-economic feasibility, and sustainability and iv) research findings addressing the socio-economic, health and safety impacts, and life cycle assessments leading to proposing novel devices for DES. The Deadline for submission is 31 July 2024. More submittal information...
- See also: Global Calendar of Events and past events in Guyana
News
Solar prepared meal at the 2009 Crisis Management IV experiment in Georgetown
- April 2010: Solar Cookers International (SCI) board member Patricia McArdle was invited by the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) to participate in the 2009 Crisis Management IV experiment in Georgetown, Guyana. This annual series of experiments explores new technologies that are beneficial and easily transferable to partner nations in Latin America. The focus of this year’s experiment was flood management. Though susceptible to flooding every few years, Guyana has abundant sunshine for solar cooking, even during the rainy season. As part of the SOUTHCOM program, McArdle gave a solar cooking presentation to officials of the Guyana Civil Defense Commission. She left a number of solar cooking kits with the officials for use in future demonstrations. McArdle also organized and supervised an integrated solar cooking competition between two teams of students from the University of Guyana’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The purpose of the competition was to demonstrate the capability of the solar CooKit — SCI’s simple cardboard solar cooker — to cook traditional local dishes using only sunlight. The students were split into teams, and cooked two versions of “cook-up,” one with black-eyed peas and one with split peas. They were also required to pasteurize drinking water using the CooKits, and confirm pasteurization temperatures using a Water Pasteurization Indicator (WAPI). The meals were tasted and judged by a number of local officials. The winners received CooKits and pots. The students immediately began planning for future demonstrations, including one at a regional Scout Jamboree. A front-page article in the Stabroek News had this to say about the solar cooking competition: “While some persons were hesitant to sample the two [cook-up] varieties, it was unanimously agreed that the popular dish turned out to be quite tasty.” McArdle organized a similar program for the 2008 Crisis Management III experiment in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
History
- Main article: History of solar cooking
Archived articles
Climate and cultureClimate, culture, and special considerations
See also
Contacts
The entities listed below are either based in Guyana, or have established solar cooking projects there:
SCI Associates
- Main article: Solar Cookers International Association