What would be your ideas on a solar cooker for hot water heating. I need to heat a 100 gal. tank of water to, at least 85-90 degrees. Dave Jones...
Dave Jones
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Nov 5, 1998 5:23 pm
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marklec@...
Nov 5, 1998 6:25 pm
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I would think a batch heater would be the solution. Try Dulleys column. Pete ... From: Dave Jones To: solarcooking-l@... Subject: Re: related box-cooker...
Westre, Peter L
Peter.L.Westre@...
Nov 5, 1998 8:24 pm
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One system I read about took a discarded water heater tank and placed it into a discarded refrigerator. The door opening was glazed and foil was applied to the...
Tom Sponheim
tomsp@...
Nov 5, 1998 9:48 pm
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... Dave, Try a flat panel solar hot-water heater. They are commercially available, and in Australia at least, you can pick up old high pressure units that ...
mcmahonr@...
Nov 6, 1998 5:10 am
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Hi My name is Tom Stephenson. Scoutmaster of the 52nd Durban Sea Scout Group South Africa. My boys have been working on a solar cooking project for the last...
TOM STEPHEN
STEPHENT@...
Nov 6, 1998 9:30 am
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Dear Tom It is good to read about SA activities on the list. Could you let me have a little further info on your activities , and in particular about the sort...
Douglas Banks
doug@...
Nov 6, 1998 12:38 pm
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Tom, Here are some articles from the Solar Cooking Archive (http://www.accessone.com/~sbcn) discussing ugali: Cooking Ugali in a Solar Box Cooker ...
Tom Sponheim
tomsp@...
Nov 6, 1998 5:59 pm
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Tom: Tom Sponheim has already included a recipe from the Solar Journal about cooking Ugali in Kenya, where equal volumes of water and mealy meal are mixed and...
Robert Metcalf
sac15166@...
Nov 6, 1998 8:37 pm
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Hello Rush, Sorry for the delay, been busy with work and real life (tm). <G> I'm posting this to the list(s) for others comments. Hopefully they'll post real...
HandyM2@...
Nov 8, 1998 2:08 am
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In a message dated 98-11-11 09:14:49 EST, you write: << How does one build a fireplace in a strawbale home? Can a zero clearance FP be used? What about adobe?...
HandyM2@...
Nov 11, 1998 5:52 pm
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< How does one build a fireplace in a strawbale home? Can a zero clearance FP ... MUCH more fuel eficient is a slow-combustion stove. They consume less wood, a...
mcmahonr@...
Nov 12, 1998 7:50 am
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From the Food and Drink section of the Weekend Telegraph of 23rd December 1995... Dry it and they'll buy it Desiccated fruit is fashionable - and good for you,...
Tom Sponheim
tomsp@...
Nov 13, 1998 8:04 pm
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Hello, My name is Bruce L. Broweleit (pronounced "brow" "light"). I am 42 years old, and newly subscribed to this discussion list. I'm afraid I haven't made...
Bruce Broweleit
BBROWEL@...
Nov 13, 1998 8:21 pm
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Just to report today's effort. Eight ROBs were made by Spanish-speaking ladies in the local LDS church in about 2 hours. They saw successful cooking of brown...
Barbara Kerr
bkerr@...
Nov 14, 1998 11:41 pm
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Bruce - There was a picture of what looked like a tetrahedronal cooker posted by Tom Sponheim back in July, in "Photos from 3rd Solar Encounter in Spain now...
Michael D. Cooke
sunwind@...
Nov 15, 1998 3:44 am
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Sorry to have confused friends with an abbreviation. ROB is Roger Bernard's preferred name for his design of solar cooker, also known as a "reflective open...
Of course, we are all concerned about the people in the hurricane damaged area and wonder how we can help. If they already were doing simple solar cooking,...
Barbara Kerr
bkerr@...
Nov 17, 1998 8:28 pm
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I'm planning to make a solar cooker. I'm wishing to focus the sun upwards onto the bottom of a pot. I've bought a couple of those full page magnifiers from my...
sol bright
solarchow@...
Nov 17, 1998 10:59 pm
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Hi Handy, The problem with using a magnifying glass to start a fire is that solar cooks mainly build a fire when there is no sun. Actually, the dry cotton...
Barbara Kerr
bkerr@...
Nov 18, 1998 5:06 pm
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Hello In the San Diego /Tijuana area we have been doing some workshops with both types of cookers and have identified material in Spanish, including a good ...
Bruce Carey
worldrt@...
Nov 18, 1998 5:34 pm
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Hi Bruce, good to hear you are active in the San Diego/Tiajuana area. Regarding the use of propane, I once stretched 6 gallons of propane to 17 months of use...
Barbara Kerr
bkerr@...
Nov 19, 1998 5:33 pm
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Hi Bruce, good to hear you are active in the San Diego/Tiajuana area. Regarding the use of propane, I once stretched 6 gallons of propane to 17 months of use...
Barbara Kerr
bkerr@...
Nov 19, 1998 5:34 pm
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At 18:23 19/11/98 +0100, you wrote: Hi chaps: I noticed that any heat rising up in the air along side the pot is ... Reading your words above, and old,...
romulus remus
CMONTERO@...
Nov 19, 1998 9:37 pm
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... Hi, I have had some success using a wide-mouthed vacuum thermos flask for cooking soups and rice. I put in the dry food, add boiling water and in the ...
mcmahonr@...
Nov 20, 1998 2:37 am
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I highly recommend avoiding vacuum seals. I've heard that you loose a lot of nutrional value when you do these kinds of things. Sincerely, Eugene Wong...
Eugene Wong
eugenewong@...
Nov 20, 1998 3:13 am
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Simple thoughts, Cheap too. <G> << Hi, I have had some success using a wide-mouthed vacuum thermos flask for cooking soups and rice. I put in the dry food,...
HandyM2@...
Nov 20, 1998 5:17 am
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That makes little sense whatsoever. There's no where for the nutrients to escape to -- unlike boiling, where they escape into the air with the steam and/or are...