Engineering:Kyoto box

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The Kyoto Box is a solar cooker constructed from polypropylene with an acrylic plastic cover. The oven traps the sun's rays, creating enough heat to boil water or cook food.

Construction and use

Two nested cardboard or polypropylene boxes form the oven structure. Temperatures inside the box can quickly reach 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees Fahrenheit)[1] on a sunny day. Temperatures could reach a maximum of 165 degrees Celsius.[2] Bohmer claimed that the oven was capable of boiling 10 liters of water in two to three hours.[3]


Updated design

Inventor

The Norwegian inventor, Jon Bohmer of Kyoto Energy LTD., Kenya [4] [5], made the first model of the Kyoto Box with his daughters then aged 10 and 5 years old. It later won the FT Climate Change Challenge award, placing first in the competition.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Kyoto Box, Solar Cardboard Cooker Wins Climate Prize". GreenPacks. 2009-04-09. http://www.greenpacks.org/2009/04/09/kyoto-box-solar-cardboard-cooker-wins-climate-prize/. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 
  2. ↑ "Kyoto Box". Kyoto-energy.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20120106202548/http://kyoto-energy.com/kyoto-box.html. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 
  3. ↑ "Invention – The Kyoto Box solar Oven – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks". Blogs.howstuffworks.com. 2009-04-10. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20120222145034/http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/04/10/invention-the-kyoto-box-solar-oven/. Retrieved 2012-02-14. 
  4. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7991654.stm
  5. ↑ https://giw2017.org/organizations/kyoto-energy-ltd
  6. ↑ Climate Change Challenge . Collected 4 Apr 2009.
  7. ↑ Prize for 'Sun in the box' cooker BBC News. Collected 9 Apr 2009.



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