Food poisoning is real, y'all. And stunts like that, while certainly a fun way to demonstrate just how much hotter San Antonio is than the rest of the country, are an exceedingly easy way to subject ...

From cool, dewy European mountain ranges and humid Central Asian forests to the urban sprawl across North America and the arid landscapes of the African continent, millions of people are cooking with ...

Joel Dufour, the author, removes a hot skillet from his mobile solar oven. On most solar ovens you must lift off the glass top to check on or remove food. A rear door makes this process a lot faster, ...

If it’s easy and free, it’s too good to be true, right? Not when it comes to solar cooking. Just as the term suggests, this cooking method captures the power of the sun. It’s a passive process, ...

A research group from Ghana has developed a solar PV-powered steam cooker (ISESC) with sand-based thermal energy storage (TES). “The potential of sand, given its thermal stability and low cost, has ...

Smithsonian associate editor Bruce Hathaway guest blogs for us, chiming in about his love for solar cooking: The first days of May here in the Washington, D.C., area are usually ideal for solar ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features an interview with Alan Bigelow, science director of Solar Cookers International, a non-profit organization that researches and promotes solar ...

Late one recent morning, Alan Bigelow set up seven solar-thermal cooking devices in the front yard of his house in Nyack, New York. Sunshine was pouring down like slot-machine jackpots. One of the ...

Even at the ripe of age of 79, I am living proof of the old adage, “You learn something new every day.” Recently, I was visiting someone who had a solar cooker on her deck. I don’t think I’d ever seen ...

The Federal Ministry of Environment has introduced solar-powered cooking stoves nationwide The new initiative targets over four million Nigerian households and aims to reduce environmental pollution ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The ten 2021 winners of the Keeling Curve Prize for climate change solutions are recognized for innovations in grid-scale energy storage, e-bikes, ...