Thursday, June 16, 2011

Baking with Solar Ovens in the Desert Sun

Having fun, but working hard making solar ovens.

The inside has another box that is painted with a glossy black paint.

We assembled this solar oven together, but made another one for ourselves.


We each made a solar oven.  Pretty fancy, don't you think?

We tested each cardboard solar oven for the highest temperature, because each solar oven was designed differently.
Each solar oven had different insulations and different sized foil openings to capture the sun. 
Would you believe that our oven heated up to 348 degrees?  WOW!

2 comments:

  1. 348 degreed?!! wow thats HOT!!!

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  2. It was important to pack the inside layer with paper. The more dense it was the better it worked. Some teachers put packing peanuts in their solar ovens and they melted.

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