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INDEX Awards: BCK Solar Cooker

BCK Solar Cooker

Remember when you were a kid and you discovered you could burn things with a magnifying glass? Well things have come a long way since burning my name into our back deck.

The sun is a fantastic, and very underused source of heat energy, but get some mirrors or magnifying glasses out and you can cook a meal! The BCK Solar Cooker does just that, it cooks stuff using the heat from the sun.

While it’s a bit hard to tell everyone to get rid of their stoves or microwaves for a concave mirror, it’s a great thing to keep in mind while camping, or to keep for emergencies.

The design of the solar cooker improves the quality of life by allowing the public to cook in a clean and ecological way, without the use of non-renewable sources and without aggravating the environment (Green Design). The advantages of this project are that it can be used within natures boundaries where other resources are unavailable and where we must protect the environment and in situations where we wish to experiment in an innovative way of cooking and of working alongside with the nature.

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