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Academic demonstrates the use of a solar cooker, India, 1962 (media.kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by PugJesus@kbin.social to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this is really cool

[–] roshan_joseph03@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

1962??? It was a long long time ago. But I doubt any progress made after that on the Solar cooker. Pls correct me if I am wrong

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

Some things are simply perfected already. The concept is very straightforward, and there isn't much you can alter about it.

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You can basically see this as a small version of a concentrated solar power plant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power