Comments on: Dad helps kids invent solar oven for third world http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090409/dad-helps-kids-invent-solar-oven-for-third-world/ Playing with cool gadgets in the ongoing search for the Coolest Gadget Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:59:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Eamonn http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090409/dad-helps-kids-invent-solar-oven-for-third-world/comment-page-1/#comment-377897 Eamonn Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:59:51 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=23894#comment-377897 Now that's a cool dad, build me a cooker! Pls Now that’s a cool dad, build me a cooker! Pls

]]> By: Shannon Carr-Shand http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090409/dad-helps-kids-invent-solar-oven-for-third-world/comment-page-1/#comment-367968 Shannon Carr-Shand Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:40:17 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=23894#comment-367968 Re Climate Change Competition winner - clarification Thanks for all the comments regarding the Kyoto Box winning the FT Climate Challenge Competition. There have been a few posts pointing out that the solar-powered oven is not a new idea. The point of the competition was not to reward a eureka moment but to help an innovative approach to climate change reach the market. As Kyoto Energy founder and competition-winner Jon Bøhmer acknowledges in his company literature and on his application, the concept of solar cooking has been around since the eighteenth century. There are other versions of solar cookers available on the web and there are also detailed explanations of how to make a version of a similar device. What distinguishes this approach is that the cooker will be mass-produced cheaply in existing factories, the finished item is to be flat-packed for bulk transportation to end users and is extremely cheap at $6. The $75,000 prize money is going to enable Kyoto Energy to test durable, plastic versions of the cooker with 10,000 people currently burning fossil fuels to clean their water and heat their food. The expert judges and the thousands of members of the public who voted for the Kyoto Box agreed that this simple idea offered the best opportunity amongst the five short-listed ideas for an innovation to help tackle climate change on a big scale. Please see the press release and our site for more information on the competition and its objectives. Shannon Carr-Shand, Forum for the Future Re Climate Change Competition winner – clarification

Thanks for all the comments regarding the Kyoto Box winning the FT Climate Challenge Competition. There have been a few posts pointing out that the solar-powered oven is not a new idea. The point of the competition was not to reward a eureka moment but to help an innovative approach to climate change reach the market. As Kyoto Energy founder and competition-winner Jon Bøhmer acknowledges in his company literature and on his application, the concept of solar cooking has been around since the eighteenth century.

There are other versions of solar cookers available on the web and there are also detailed explanations of how to make a version of a similar device. What distinguishes this approach is that the cooker will be mass-produced cheaply in existing factories, the finished item is to be flat-packed for bulk transportation to end users and is extremely cheap at $6.

The $75,000 prize money is going to enable Kyoto Energy to test durable, plastic versions of the cooker with 10,000 people currently burning fossil fuels to clean their water and heat their food. The expert judges and the thousands of members of the public who voted for the Kyoto Box agreed that this simple idea offered the best opportunity amongst the five short-listed ideas for an innovation to help tackle climate change on a big scale.

Please see the press release and our site for more information on the competition and its objectives.

Shannon Carr-Shand, Forum for the Future

]]> By: Enoch Henderson http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090409/dad-helps-kids-invent-solar-oven-for-third-world/comment-page-1/#comment-367508 Enoch Henderson Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:57:02 +0000 http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/?p=23894#comment-367508 This is not a new invention... I bought one of these solar ovens a while back, they have been used for years in poor areas, and the only thing this guy did is replicate the idea with cheap stuff. Is it considered an invention if I just recreate something that exists with old cheap stuff? Hmmm, how could I get an award... make an iPhone out of duct tape & old wires? ;) This is not a new invention… I bought one of these solar ovens a while back, they have been used for years in poor areas, and the only thing this guy did is replicate the idea with cheap stuff. Is it considered an invention if I just recreate something that exists with old cheap stuff? Hmmm, how could I get an award… make an iPhone out of duct tape & old wires? ;)

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