Here is a big boost for low-tech, low-cost, potentially very high-impact solutions to “dangerous anthropogenic interference” (DAI) with the climate system: a solar-powered cooker that costs less than $5 to build. I wrote about the FT’s Climate Change Challenge last month here. The FT and its partners, Forum for the Future and HP, are providing exactly the kind of support for these sorts of critically important, innovative, and scalable projects that they need.
See this from the BBC on the winner, the Kyoto Box, including an interview with the inventor, Jon Bøhmer, who lays out all the many positives. See also the FT article from today. “Mr. Bøhmer hopes the box will be eligible for carbon credits, hence the name Kyoto box, making a yearly profit of €20-€30 (£18-£27) per stove, which would enable further expansion and easily cover the cost of replacing the cooker after five years.”
I love solar cookers and have written about them in several contexts including at Black Carbon and Solar Cookers.
