Changes: Roger Haines

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Last edited: 25 August 2014

Roger Haines is a resident of San Diego, California, USA, and member of the San Diego Downtown Noon Rotary Club. His 2013 "double curve" panel cooker was made from commercial plastic bubble wrap insulation. His current 2014 design is made from reflective MPET (metalized polyester film bonded to IXPE (cross-linked polyester) foam insulation with a white polyester foam backing. The reflective polyester will not oxidize, cannot be scratched off, and has a high melting point. Importantly, the new material is easy to recycle and is environmentally safe through the whole production and recycling process without pollution.

Haines Solar Cooker

Main article: Haines Solar Cooker

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The Haines Solar Cooker, (version II)

Recent developments

October 2013: San Diego, California, Rotary Clubs partnered with the Nairobi Mashariki Rotary Club in Kenya to provide 291 "double curve" Haines Solar Cookers made from reflective bubble insulation for a pilot project in Kenya. Training was provided by Faustine Odaba, Director of the Kenya-based Natural Resources and Waste Management Alliance (NAREWAMA). The new design used a polycarbonate "cooking sleeve" to insulate and elevate the cooking pot off the surface of the cooker. Three months after distribution, Rotary evaluators found that 5 of 6 women were still using their cooker at least weekly. Half used their cooker every day, and one-third cooked two meals a day. The women averaged $9 USD (786 KES) in monthly savings on firewood and reduced their firewood consumption by 77%.

July 2014: Building material supplier in Kenya imports solar cooker supplies - Roger Haines reports that Global Hardware, Ltd., a prominent Nairobi, Kenya building supply company, (http://www.globalhardware.co.ke Tel: +254 20 2399998/7 E-Mail: infol@globalhardware.co.ke, has purchased a large quantity of reflective foam insulation and polycarbonate plastic film for resale in wholesale quantities for $15 per cooker for making Haines Solar Cookers. Faustine Odaba's NAREWAMA will be making and selling the new reflective foam solar cookers, and the hope is that the availability of these inexpensive materials will promote the creation of other solar cooking entrepreneurs in East Africa as well. Haines' San Diego Rotary Club has purchased materials for 500 of the new cookers for a joint project with the Rotary Club of Gulu, Uganda.

Contact

Roger Haines

Tel.: +1 (858) 736-5505

Email: bhaines@san.rr.com

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-[[Roger Haines]] is a resident of San Diego, {{State|California}}, [[USA]], and member of the local Rotary Club. He first developed a variation of the [[CooKit]] panel cooker that used a double curve design made from commercial plastic bubble wrap insulation. This design has been followed with the latest version constructed of IXPE (cross-linked polyester) foam insulation bonded with reflective metalized polyester film (MPET film / 3mm IXPE foam / white PET film).  The reflective polyester will not oxidize, cannot be scratched off, and has a high melting point.  Importantly, the new material is easy to recycle and is environmentally safe through the whole production and recycling process without pollution.
+[[Roger Haines]] is a resident of San Diego, {{State|California}}, [[USA]], and member of the San Diego Downtown Noon Rotary Club. His 2013 "double curve" panel cooker was made from commercial plastic bubble wrap insulation. His current 2014 design is made from reflective MPET (metalized polyester film bonded to IXPE (cross-linked polyester) foam insulation with a white polyester foam backing.  The reflective polyester will not oxidize, cannot be scratched off, and has a high melting point.  Importantly, the new material is easy to recycle and is environmentally safe through the whole production and recycling process without pollution.
 ==Haines Solar Cooker==
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 ==Recent developments==
-*'''May 2013:''' San Diego, California, Rotary Clubs have partnered with Rotary Clubs in [[Kenya]] to provide three hundred [[Haines Solar Cooker]]s designed by California resident, [[Roger Haines]] for a pilot project with a community in Kenya. Director of the Kenya-based [[Natural Resources and Waste Management Alliance ]](NAREWAMA) [[Faustine Odaba]] is supervising this project. This new solar cooker design is made from commercially available, reflective bubble insulation. The plastic bag has been replaced by a thin, clear, flexible strip of polycarbonate sheeting.
+*'''October 2013:''' San Diego, California, Rotary Clubs partnered with the Nairobi Mashariki Rotary Club in [[Kenya]] to provide 291 "double curve" [[Haines Solar Cooker]]s made from reflective bubble insulation for a pilot project in Kenya.  Training was provided by  Faustine Odaba, Director of the Kenya-based [[Natural Resources and Waste Management Alliance ]](NAREWAMA). The new design used a polycarbonate "cooking sleeve" to insulate and elevate the cooking pot off the surface of the cooker. Three months after distribution, Rotary evaluators found that 5 of 6 women were still using their cooker at least weekly.  Half used their cooker every day, and one-third cooked two meals a day.  The women averaged $9 USD (786 KES) in monthly savings on firewood and reduced their firewood consumption by 77%.
-*'''April 2014: Building material supplier in Kenya imports solar cooker supplies''' - [[Roger Haines]] reports that Global Hardware, Ltd., a prominent Nairobi, [[Kenya]] building supply company, (http://www.globalhardware.co.ke), has agreed to purchase a large quantity of reflective foam insulation and polycarbonate plastic film for resale at low cost to solar cooking entrepreneurs.  This is expected to reduce to less than $10 the wholesale cost of materials in Nairobi for the newly-designed cooker. The hope is that the availability of these inexpensive materials will promote the creation of new solar cooking entrepreneurs in East Africa.  Haines' San Diego Rotary Club will purchase materials for 500 of the new cookers for distribution by the Rotary Club of Gulu, [[Uganda]].
+*'''July 2014:  Building material supplier in Kenya imports solar cooker supplies''' - [[Roger Haines]] reports that Global Hardware, Ltd., a prominent Nairobi, [[Kenya]] building supply company, (http://www.globalhardware.co.ke Tel: +254 20 2399998/7  E-Mail: infol@globalhardware.co.ke, has purchased a large quantity of reflective foam insulation and polycarbonate plastic film for resale in wholesale quantities for $15 per cooker for making Haines Solar Cookers.  Faustine Odaba's NAREWAMA will be making and selling the new reflective foam solar cookers, and the hope is that the availability of these inexpensive materials will promote the creation of other solar cooking entrepreneurs in East Africa as well.  Haines' San Diego Rotary Club has purchased materials for 500 of the new cookers for a joint project with the Rotary Club of Gulu, [[Uganda]].
 ==See also==
 *[[Haines Solar Cooker]]
-*[[Haines Pop-open Solar Cooker]]
 ==Contact==
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