Did you know that the Sun provides Earth with more energy in a day than humans use in an entire year?
On hot summer days, cooking with a solar oven is one way to keep your house cooler, and harness some of that free energy. And it is easy to make your own!
It’s clean, it’s simple, it’s inexpensive. And it’s beautiful. For about one hundred dollars in materials, you can build yourself a solar oven from two cardboard boxes.
A solar oven is for you if you want to:
- Cook with the free energy from the Sun
- Reduce your energy bills this summer
- Enjoy an easy, hands-on project
- Avoid paying hundreds of dollars for a manufactured solar oven.
In this video, you get a fast-paced overview of how to build a solar box cooker from cardboard boxes: