Hot diodes!: Dirt cheap cooking and electricity for the global poor?
| Autor: | Robert Van Buskirk, Andre Li, Nicholas J. Adams, Grace Gius, Matthew Walker, Pete Schwartz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Direct DC Solar Cooking
0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Voltage regulator 010501 environmental sciences Development 01 natural sciences DDS lcsh:HD72-88 Automotive engineering lcsh:Economic growth development planning Indoor air quality ddc:330 otorhinolaryngologic diseases 021108 energy Cost of electricity by source 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Diode Resistive touchscreen integumentary system business.industry ISEC technology industry and agriculture General Engineering food and beverages Dirt Insulated Solar Electric Cooking Computer Science Applications biological sciences Environmental science lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Electricity business lcsh:TK1-9971 General Economics Econometrics and Finance |
| Zdroj: | Development Engineering, Vol 4, Iss, Pp-(2019) |
| ISSN: | 2352-7285 |
| Popis: | Direct DC Solar (DDS) electricity can inexpensively cook food and charge appliances. Insulating the cooking chamber allows the food to cook with a lower-power (less expensive) solar panel over a longer cooking time. We explain how using a chain of diodes instead of a resistive heater extracts more energy from a solar panel over a variety of solar intensities and also acts as a rough, inexpensive voltage regulator to charge batteries and power appliances. We show how a diode heater produces more heat from a solar panel than either a DDS resistive heater or a PWM/battery-connected resistive heater, averaged over a wide variety of solar intensities. The resulting cost of electricity is already cost competitive with biomass cooking in many areas. Benefits include inexpensive access to electricity as well as reductions in indoor air pollution, deforestation, and cost/burden of providing cooking fuel. With continued decrease in the price of solar panels, DDS will become ever more effective for bringing electricity and electrical cooking to the global poor. Keywords: Direct DC Solar Cooking, DDS, ISEC, Insulated Solar Electric Cooking |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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