MUM Solar Oven: a Nature-Powered Cooking Project

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Sustainable Living students at Maharishi University designed and built a solar oven from a 55-gallon drum, insulated with sheep's wool.

The solar oven is a pretty simple design. What you are doing is you are using the suns energy to heat up air that is trapped in a box. You paint the inside of the box black and then you insulate the box with sheep's wool so that the heat can't get out faster than the air heats up. And once you know that, you can just about build a solar oven out of anything. So to start we are going to mount the oven shell on a trolley and then wrap it in sheet metal so that we have four reflectors coming out along the edges. The reflectors are made with spray adhesive and tin foil. Tape is used to cover the seams and seal the edges. Once constructed all you need is sunlight and you have a functional, solar powered oven.

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