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  • Two Cardboard Boxes and Some Paint = a $6 Solar Cooker to Save the World | 80beats | Discover Magazine

    ..an amazingly simple but effective way to cook food... Two Cardboard Boxes and Some Paint = a $6 Solar Cooker to Save the World solar cookerThe Kyoto Box, a $6 solar cooker made from cardboard, has won the Financial Times-sponsored Climate Change Challenge contest for innovative... more

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  • Rated by JenDiggityDirt on Jun 01 2009, 11:58am

    The thing is, though, that there are a lot of easy solutions to a lot of big problems, but it doesn't seem to be so easy to actually get people to use them. I am thinking of the guinea worm that can easily be filtered out by simply straining water through some nylon and people are taught to do this, but a lot of them just don't do it. Why???

  • Rated by Carl-001 on May 28 2009, 7:53pm

    $75,000 to put a BOX and some TINFOIL into production!!! That is crazy! This here is a nice elementary school experiment. This is no where close to practical for normal use. Although I'll take 75,000 to tinker with it for a year and conclude that it isn't a viable product!

  • Reviewed by nuttyguy20 on May 19 2009, 3:38pm

    I saw this once as a school science experiment from the 1970's. Save the world my butt. If it was that easy and effective, there would be solar ovens all over the 3rd world. Keep up the good work for sure, but don't believe that this is the panacea developing nations need.

  • Rated by Anna1 on Apr 27 2009, 4:11am

    This Box can save the live from Millions of People!!! Kyoto - Award - winner! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emnyDUaIKrM

  • Rated by kuanyin333 on Apr 13 2009, 10:03pm

    Solar Cooker could save the world!

  • Rated by wanipariwar on Apr 11 2009, 10:10am

    Perhaps that should read175 Celsius, or 347 Fahrenheit

  • Rated by lekahe on Apr 11 2009, 1:22am

    The Kyoto Box, a $6 solar cooker made from cardboard, has won the Financial Times-sponsored Climate Change Challenge contest for innovative ways to decrease the human impact on the environment.

  • Rated by barbannco on Apr 11 2009, 1:22am

    ..an amazingly simple but effective way to cook food... Two Cardboard Boxes and Some Paint = a $6 Solar Cooker to Save the World solar cookerThe Kyoto Box, a $6 solar cooker made from cardboard, has won the Financial Times-sponsored Climate Change Challenge contest for innovative ways to decrease the human impact on the environment. Its capacity to not only cook food but also sterilize water could help three billion people reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The Kenya-based Norwegian creator of the cooker, Jon Bøhmer, has been awarded $75,000 to put the idea into production. Named after the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol, the cooker is made from two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, with either paper or straw insulation placed in between; an acrylic cover on top lets in and traps sunlight. Black paint on the inner box, and silver foil on the outer one, help concentrate the heat. The trapped rays make the inside hot enough to cook casseroles, bake bread and boil water [CNN]. Covering the cooking pot with a transparent cover retains heat and water [BBC], and temperatures inside the pot can reach about 175 degrees Fahrenheit. With as many as 3 billion people dependent on firewood for fuel, it is hoped that the cooker will eliminate the small-scale deforestation that has cumulatively become a major contributor to global warming worldwide. By allowing users to boil water, the simple device could also potentially save the millions of children who die from drinking unclean water [CNN]. The Kyoto Box was chosen from five finalists; the other four included a garlic-based feed additive to cut methane emissions from livestock, an indoor cooling system using hollow tiles, a cover for truck wheels to reduce fuel use and a "giant industrial microwave" for creating charcoal [Reuters]. The box can be produced in standard cardboard factories, and Bøhmer is already working with one factory in Nairobi. Bøhmer, who has started a design firm called Kyoto Energy, also designed a sturdier version made of recycled plastic, which he says would also be extremely cheap to produce. His next step is to conduct trials with 10,000 cookers in 10 countries, including India, Indonesia, South Africa, Kenya and Uganda [GreenBiz.com]. "We're saving lives and saving trees" [Reuters], he said. "I don't want to see another 80-year-old woman carrying 20 kilos of firewood on her back. Maybe we don't have to" [CNN]. Relat

  • Rated by dgirlp on Apr 11 2009, 1:09am

    The Kyoto Box, a $6 solar cooker made from cardboard, has won the Financial Times-sponsored Climate Change Challenge contest for innovative ways to decrease the human impact on the environment