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| rdfs:label | - Future potential for solar ovens
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| rdfs:comment | - In other words, as the mountain of evidence in favor of solar cooking grows beyond the point where it can be ignored, momentum behind solar cooking will increase. In that light, it is important to note events in China and India. Both countries recognized by the 1980s that cooking fuel needs were completely at odds with needs to protect threatened forest resources. Both countries launched national solar cooker programs. While some critics find flaws with some of these programs, something on the order of 600,000 solar cookers have been produced in India and more than a million in China. As these nascent solar cooking economies grow, they are likely to influence many other actors or potential actors on the world scene.
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| abstract | - In other words, as the mountain of evidence in favor of solar cooking grows beyond the point where it can be ignored, momentum behind solar cooking will increase. In that light, it is important to note events in China and India. Both countries recognized by the 1980s that cooking fuel needs were completely at odds with needs to protect threatened forest resources. Both countries launched national solar cooker programs. While some critics find flaws with some of these programs, something on the order of 600,000 solar cookers have been produced in India and more than a million in China. As these nascent solar cooking economies grow, they are likely to influence many other actors or potential actors on the world scene. Something on the order of two billion people cook with wood or wood-related products. The earth's forests cannot handle the demand, nor can the earth's atmosphere handle the additional carbon that these fires send up into the air in the form of smoke. There is much human suffering in poor communities as cooking fuel vanishes or becomes impossibly expensive. The profound need, combined with the simplicity of most common solar cookers, strongly suggests that the solar cooking movement will grow by many orders of magnitude. The real question is how long will it take to reach the majority of those who most need solar cookers. See how solar cooking can be combined with other fuel-saving technologies in the Integrated Cooking Method.
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