Solar Cooking

A solar cone grill is designed out of cones.

It seems to me that the Solar Cone Grill is easier to construct than the Solar Grill made out of sectors. In a solar cone grill, each cone can be cut out from a metal plate as each cone is a segment of a cirle with a given diameter. Each cone form a part of a parabolic shape heating excactly the same spot. The spot heated is depending on the size of the cones.

I am here adding a new element on this type of design with four cones. One of these models is almost identical to the Earth Bound Cooker. I have just added a new cone on the top of the third cone. The other model is four cones up to 45 degree. This gives a solar grill that is more powerful than one with 3 cones. The focal pont or more right the focal sphere is here 10 cm diameter.

Solar cone grill

There are benefits to this. One idea is to focus the sun evenly on a sphere, not a point. Even with a big reflector the sphere could be just as big or small as you liked. By adding more cones to the 90-45 degrees area the solar grill would become bigger, but without loosing the focus zone.

4 cones solar cone grill RETT OPP OG NED lines b

Check also out Earth Bound Cookers fromhttp://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/EarthBound_Cooker.

A five cones solar grill would look like this:

5 cone solar grill