Portable Camping
Portable Camping
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I'm looking for small, portable solar powered camping/hiking stove. Not too expensive but works really well?
What would you suggest? In all price ranges. What's your favourite and why?
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Solar Power (panels I guess) that could power an electric stove. How would I plug the electric stove to get power from the solar panel?
Thanks!
I looking into mostly boiling lake water, for soups, oats, etc.
Though I have not used one myself I would trust any of these solar cooking products on this page from Real Goods (link below), the consumer product sales division of the Solar Institute in California.
http://www.realgoods.com/category/camping-gifts-apparel/camping/solar+ovens.do
They test all of the items to assure that they work before offering them for sale. In fact, they are probably one of the best sources for all kinds of products and educational materials for alternative energy products. They have a lot of cool stuff for camping and back country use. I worked at a remote archaeology field camp several years ago and we used their hand-crank radios and solar showers as well as the flexible solar panels and inverter units to power laptops and instruments.
It is true that it would be very hard (if not impossible) to convert enough amps from a solar cell to cook by inductive or resistance heating BUT concentrating the sun's rays directly as these cookers do really does work. Organizations like the Peace Corps have been teaching people in underdeveloped areas to build and use solar cookers for decades to save local forests and reduce smoke and pollution. The process is different then just setting a pot on a fuel stove, however, and the units aren't cheap or terribly compact. You can build one yourself, similar to these, out of sheet metal and other materials.