A team of engineering majors from Rochester Institute of Technology won first place and $75,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its design of a low-cost solar oven for use in ...

Call it Mother Nature's slow cooker. The family-sized solar oven built in an Analy High School program cooks food at up to 300 degrees. It's perfect for cooking rice and beans, baking bread and ...

A solar oven designed by Purdue University mechanical engineering students in an effort to save valuable forests and lives was presented to officials in Tanzania recently during a workshop there. E.

Even with all the buzz about alternative energy these days, solar ovens aren’t poised to replace the traditional gas or electric versions — at least not in the developed world. But making a simple ...

Not all students are relaxing on their summer break. Some are working on an oven that could help fight world hunger. "We call it a hybrid-barrel-panel design because it’s a cylinder but it also ...

This new approach combines two conventional solar oven designs and aims to provide a cleaner and healthier alternative. “Cooking by the burning of firewood and other non-environmental and ...

MOUNT MADONNA >> In their curriculum transition from space exploration to Earth sciences, sixth grade students at Mount Madonna School harnessed the power of the sun last week to cook delectable ...

We have also invested considerable time and some money experimenting with the many ways to cook food with the sun. Just imagine! You can actually take scrap materials–old cardboard boxes, newspaper, a ...

Q: I like to do things the natural way when cooking. Since my kitchen gets really hot when I cook, I would like to try a solar oven. Is it really possible to cook with solar and how can I make an oven ...

This March in Minnesota, our solar oven got hot enough to bake a killer batch of scones—and in the summer, it can whip up brownies in a brownout. The project makes use of scraps (or full 4 x 8 sheets) ...