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Dissemination of solar cooking with low cost and efficient

cookers: teaching and intensive use

Celestino Rodrigues Ruivo

University of Algarve-Portugal

E-mail: cruivo@ualg.pt

Internationale Konferenz "solar cooking, drying, farming and gardening“

SolarZentrum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 10 th May 2013

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Pirelióforo ( year 1904)

Pirelióforo, a device in which thousands of mirrors over a surface of 80 square

meters concentrated solar energy up to a temperature of 3500 ºC

The huge installment was a star in the 1904 Universal Expo of St. Louis USA,

where it won two gold medals.

Padre Himalaya

Portuguese Priest,

Pioneer on Solar Energy

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Solar Radiation : Portugal

Average number of sunny hours per year: 2200 to 3000

Faro ( my house)

Portugal

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Wood? Sun? or both?

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Nem

para o ar

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Sun first !!!

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Types of Solar Cookers

Pannel

Box

Parabolic

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Solar Village- Test field of Tamera

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Solar Village- Test field of Tamera

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Box solar cooker- Portuguese company

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Reflector Scheffler (visit India 2009)

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Beatriz Birthday (First public activity)

Date: 3 August 2006; 9h to 14h

(2 weeks after Granada Conference)

Local: City central garden in Faro

Invited children: 30

Uninvited People : 15

Solar cookers: 10 solar cookits

Solar lunch : 9 different meals

and solar birthday cake

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Solar cooking in middle of the city of Faro (September 2006)

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Teaching solar cookit ( children 4 years old)

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Teaching solar cookit ( children 10 years old)

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Solar Cookit - Optimised versions

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Box solar cooker

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Parabolic antenna at sunset (April 2007)

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Parabolic cooker - ARTESOL (Pedro Serrano,Chile)

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ARTESOL in Portugal Nov 2007

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ARTESOL in Portugal Nov 2007

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ARTESOL in Portugal Nov 2007

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ARTESOL in Portugal Nov 2007

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ARTESOL in Portugal Nov 2007

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Parabolic antenna with ARTESOL design

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Big parabolic antenna with ARTESOL design

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Funnel cooker

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The potential is enormous!!!

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Traditional products: stars of figs and almonds

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Traditional dish: portuguese sardines in a tile

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Innovative products- Bread with salicorn plant

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Vegeterian dish- Beet with goat cheese

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Decorated funnel cooker by a famous

portuguese painter (Mário Silva)

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Funnel cooker: India mission 2009

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Funnel cooker in Punjab (2012)

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Funnel cooker in Punjab (2012)

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Funnel cooker in Punjab (2012)

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Solar cookers…… from cardboard …..to the concrete

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Molds for the concrete funnel

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HYB ROCKSUNCOOKER

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Meeting of eco-villages in Spain (2011)

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HVAC&R Iberian congress ( Winter 2012)

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Solar lunch after teaching solar cooking for

teachers in Galicia ( Northwest Spain)

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Solar lunch of conference of Indore-India (2009)

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Solar cooking activity in hotel school of Coimbra

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Solar lunch in workshop at Dhule-India (2012)

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Solar lunch in workshop at Dhule-India (2012)

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Solar lunch in workshop at Dhule-India (2012)

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Funnel cooker at Muni Seva Ashram (2012)

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Funnel cooker at Valsad-India (2009)

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Please translate!!

Obrigado.