Satellite dishes are designed to create a focal point of energy, which makes them ideal to create a cooker as the sun’s rays can be concentrated to create a great amount of heat, the amount of heat depends on the size of the dish.
The size viewed in these videos can boil a liter of water in about 10 min.
Here we have 2 videos on creating a parabolic solar cooker from satellite dishes. Each have good tips so take what you want.
Don’t have a satellite dish? Got instructions on making a parabolic solar cooker from cardboard.
LOL That may be some use for it….it certainly doesn’t work very well getting television stations!
What is truly sad here is that due to Ovomit shutting down coal plants, without setting up alternative energy sources, and all based on the lie that coal plants are more harmful to the environment, Americans are forced to do these types of things just to be able to afford to take a bath now. And no one finds this odd?
Emerald Robertson coal plants are harmful to the environment.
sure coal plants are harmful to the environment. So are most other aspects of modern life. Are we going to ground airliners because they are bad for the air?
coal plants have very high regulations to reduce the damage they do any thing that burns a product hurts the environment would you have us go back to candles and wood stoves no wait wood stoves make a waste too so i guess we eat raw food and use candles
One volcano cause more air pollution than every coal plant ever built combined. Let’s outlaw eruptions too
hmmm…wondering what will happen if i throw a whole chicken on one right in the center…:p
Benjamin Pampling you exhaling C02 is harmful to the environment, and furthermore if you are so much against it call your power company tomorrow and have your electric shut off…hypocrite
a bent kiddie pool lined with foil will work also
Melissa Nelson Grover