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Solar Cookers

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Food, cloth, and shelter are the three main necessities of human beings. Availability of cheap and abundant supply of energy is an index of the prosperity of a country. Firewood is the fourth most important source of energy after coal, oil, and natural gas, considering the World as a whole. The fuel wood used in developing countries and developed countries are 80 percent and 10 percent respectively [1]. For the world as a whole about 50 percent of the fuel wood is used for cooking of food, and 50 percent for the other household purpose like heating, process applications and in industries [2]. The per capita of forest in Asia is very low, and in many Asian and African Countries, the commercial fuels like coal, oil and electricity is not available and therefore they have to depend on the fuel wood for cooking of food. In these countries the forests are fast depleting and therefore the fuel wood price has increased three fold during the last five years. The scarcity of fire wood imposes economic and social burden on the poor.

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Garg, H.P. (1987). Solar Cookers. In: Garg, H.P., Dayal, M., Furlan, G., Sayigh, A.A.M. (eds) Physics and Technology of Solar Energy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3939-4_20

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