The Kyoto Box is a solar cooker constructed from polypropylene with an acrylic plastic cover. The oven traps the sun's rays, creating enough heat to boil water or cook food.

Construction and use

Two nested cardboard or polypropylene boxes form the oven structure. Temperatures inside the box can quickly reach 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees Fahrenheit)[1] on a sunny day. Temperatures could reach a maximum of 165 degrees Celsius.[2] Bohmer claimed that the oven was capable of boiling 10 liters of water in two to three hours.[3]

Solar cookers are being used by hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. Solar cookers can also pasteurize or sterilize water to provide safe drinking water without using or collecting firewood. Kyoto Box is based on the original "Hot box" solar cooker, invented by De Sasseur in 1767.

Updated design

After the award of the Financial Times Climate Change Challenge 2009 the design of the Kyoto Box was modified from the original cardboard to polypropylene, boosting the cooking performance. A further innovation was the use of a white reflector instead of one covered with aluminum foil or Mylar

Inventor

The Norwegian inventor, Jon Bohmer, made the first model of the Kyoto Box with his daughters then aged 10 and 5 years old. It later won the FT Climate Change Challenge award, placing first in the competition.[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Kyoto Box, Solar Cardboard Cooker Wins Climate Prize". GreenPacks. 2009-04-09. Archived from the original on 2009-11-18. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  2. ↑ "Kyoto Box". Kyoto-energy.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-06. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  3. ↑ "Invention – The Kyoto Box solar Oven – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks". Blogs.howstuffworks.com. 2009-04-10. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
  4. ↑ Climate Change Challenge Archived 2009-04-09 at the Wayback Machine. Collected 4 Apr 2009.
  5. ↑ Prize for 'Sun in the box' cooker Archived 2009-04-10 at the Wayback Machine BBC News. Collected 9 Apr 2009.
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