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Last edited: 19 January 2024      
Sharon Clausson and Pat McArdle at San Diego County Fair 2014

Sharon Clausson (left) with Pat McArdle judging the youth solar cooker competition at the San Diego County Fair in 2014

Sharon Clausson has been interested in solar cooking since the eighties. She has experimented with several designs of her own, as well as constructing many of the other designs available to be able to test the efficiency and practical value of each.

Her most recent project is a solar panel design cooker offered as a kit, the Copenhagen Solar Cooker. It is quickly assembled, and can be taken apart and used for place mats, and also a reflective aid for a lantern.

News

  • October 2023: Adjusting the Copenhagen Solar Cooker reflectors for high and low sun angles - Sharon Clausson has shared photos showing how the new reflector snap arrangement on the Copenhagen Solar Cooker provides the best solar orientation at different times of the day.
Copenhagen refletor postions, 10-4-23

The first snap arrangement is used mid-AM and mid-PM, the second one is for early-AM and late-PM, on the right is for 11AM to 1PM. The focus is always on the center of the pan, Photo credit: Sharon Clausson

  • September 2019: Improvements to the Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light - Sharon Clausson has added snaps to the border of the reflective panels for easier and precise positioning. New cookers receive this modification.
  • September 2017: A Maker’s Journey to Help Refugees Cook Food with the Sun - Makezine
  • December 2014: Sharon has provided an instructional video and separate assembly instructions for individuals and groups wishing to make their own Copenhagen Solar Cooker panel cookers. See:The Copenhagen Solar Oven assembly instructions.
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How to Make Copenhagen Solar Cooker

Documents

  • A Comparison of Copenhagen Solar Cookers with Other Similar Sized Solar Cookers (Slides, Paper) - Sharon Clausson

Articles in the media

Audio & video

  • January 2024: Sharon Clausson demonstrates the construction of the Copenhagen solar cooker
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GLOBAL MAKER Sharon Clausson, California, USA-2

  • October 2020
Sharon Clausson demonstrates the construction of the Copenhagen Solar Cooker panel cooker to a group of school children

See also

Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light 016

Sharon Clausson's ingenious Copenhagen Solar Cooker

Contact

Email: sclausson@sclaustoys.com
Web: http://www.sclaustoys.com, http://www.oursuncooks.com

Facebook: Copenhagen Solar Cooker Group