Jun
02
2009
Cardboard Box Oven
By MinaA cardboard box won £50,000 (almost $90,000 Canadian) in the Financial Time Climate Change Challenge. It beat many inventions, including ‘a food additive that stops cows from passing wind.’ Of course, it was more than a cardboard box— it was a solar oven. Able, according to Kyoto Energy (the company that made it), to boil water and bake bread by heating up to a maximum of 100°C. There was a rough description on the site, and following the guidelines I made one myself. So far I have melted a piece of wax in it, but I will try baking cookies or something in it this weekend.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:43 PM
[...] As I said in a previous post, I made a solar oven out of a cardboard box (well, actually two cardboard boxes, a sheet of plexiglass, newspaper, black paint, and tape) and wanted to try it out. [...]