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Buying a professionally designed solar cooker is the easiest way to make your own fuel-free food (and we have plenty to recommend), but sometimes you want to get your MacGuyver on and make a DIY solar cooker kit. There are plenty of low tech ways to do this, such as the perennial middle school science fair contraption that combines cardboard boxes with saran wrap. More creative inventors can turn a Pringles can into a solar cooker. But what if you want to build a higher end solar cooker? With GoSun, now you can. We create fuel-free ovens that combine cylindrical cooking chambers with parabolic reflectors to focus the Sun's energy and keep it trapped in a vacuum tube. We are happy to assemble everything for you, but if you want to DIY, then we'll send you a DIY solar cooker kit that includes a chamber, a roll of reflector material, and some cooking fins. Now you can make the highest-quality DIY solar cooker possible by using the same materials as GoSun's brea

Solar cooking has numerous environmental, nutritional, and lifestyle benefits for everyone on earth, but there are a number of specific advantages for using solar cookers in developing countries. First, solar cookers aren't a health concern the way charcoal or wood cookers are. Second, they cook reliably no matter the condition of the local power grid. Solar Cookers in Developing Countries: Reducing Health Hazards Associated With Food Prep The majority of the world's population relying on solid fuels lives in areas lacking the public health infrastructure to deal with the massive amount of damage caused to their health. This includes Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and some countries in Central America and in East Asia and the Pacific. The death toll is staggering. The World Health Organization(WHO) has identified that up to 4.3 million pre-mature deaths are caused by pollutants from wood and kerosene cookstoves, more than one-quarter of them in India alone. Exposur

There are many types of solar oven designs. There's the simple panel cooker, made up of nothing more than a heat absorbing pot and a reflective non-metallic panel. More advanced are parabolic cookers, shaped like a satellite dish. They use a reflective dish to concentrate large amount so sunlight onto a cook Each design has its strength and weaknesses. Some are portable but take a long time to heat up food and water (panel cookers). Parabolic cookers work faster but have poor performance in variable light conditions. That's why we think the GoSun Fusion is great -- it has all the advantages of different types of solar cookers but none of the weaknesses. In fact, we believe it is the best solar oven of 2019. Released in September 2019 after years of development and releasing over 35,000 solar ovens, GoSun designed the Fusion to do what no other commercially available cooker can do. It is the world's first portable, solar-powered electric oven to work off

Keeping the Lights On When Your Utility Company Cuts the Power You never know when your utility company will cut the power. Suddenly your house goes dark, your fridge shuts off, and you wonder if services will come back on before your food spoils. Such an incident happened on October 8, 2019, when the Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced hundreds of thousands would lose electricity for due to an impending natural disaster. Power isn't scheduled to resume until the severe weather event is over. Here's more from the San Francisco Business Times: In a major unprecedented move, PG&E will shut off power to nearly 800,000 customers [in California] in a bid to prevent the risk of wildfire in the wake of projected severe wind events hitting the state this week. Convalescent facilities and retirement homes are key businesses that could be seriously impacted, said Kathe Nelson, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce in Moraga, which sits in the middle

A parabolic solar oven uses a reflective dish to concentrate large amount so sunlight onto a cooking vessel. This sheer amount of energy can top temperatures in excess of 250°C and allow users to cook using a frying pan as if on a stove top. Depending on the design, a parabolic solar oven can look like a shiny satellite dish. That is because satellite dishes and parabolic cookers both apply the principle of concentrating a substance. In the parabolic solar oven's case it's sunlight; in the satellite dish's case it's digitally transmitted information that turns into a television broadcast. This design is ideal for boiling grilling or frying on sunny days but requires periodic re-adjustment to track the Sun. Parabolic solar ovens such as GoSun's use compound parabolic reflectors concentrate light from a variety of angles onto the cooking tube. This means that there's little need to re-adjust the stove while cooking and even diffused light (such as

The Archimedes Death Ray: Great Moments in Solar Energy Solar energy is powering Planet Earth like never before. It charges your Tesla, powers up your phone, and--as we love to point out at GoSun--cooks food quickly and easily. But did you know about the Archimedes Death Ray? Harnessing the sun, however, is nothing new. Solar energy is arguable the most primitive form of energy. At least as far back as the Roman Empire, a primitive concentrated solar energy ovens were built with glass and polished metal. That's not even the largest concentrated solar array in the ancient world. The 3rd-century BC Greek scientist Archimedes once (allegedly) incinerated an entire Roman fleet using an array of mirrors to produce a death ray. Archimedes Death Ray According to ancient accounts, Archimedes, already a famed inventor of the Mediterranean city-state of Syracuse, destroyed the naval might of the Romans with his ingenuity. In 212 BC Rome had laid siege to Syracuse in the