Energy & Cooking
Over 1.4 billion people don’t have access to electricity and rely on alternative fuels that can can be dangerous and harmful to a person’s health. By increasing safety and productivity while decreasing living expenses, sustainable energy improves all aspects of life for the members of a community. From solar-powered lights to clean cookstoves, the energy solutions featured in our database are as diverse as the problems they address.
Parvati Green Tech Enterprises
The Parvati Solar Cooker can cook meals for a family of 5-6 people using only solar energy. One can boil, steam, roast or bake vegetarian or non vegetarian food. Temperatures up to 135 ° C , can be reached, which is sufficient for safely ...
Prakti Design Lab
The Prakti Double Burner Wood Stoves are portable, efficient cookstoves designed to be compatible with common rural cooking habits across the world. The rocket stove design reduces fuel wood consumption by 40-50%, emissions by up to 60%, and ...
Prakti
The Prakti Institutional Stove is designed as a hybrid stove, to utilize both wood fuel and greener fuels, such as briquettes made from recycled agricultural or urban waste. This stove reduces fuel consumption by up to 80% and cooking time by ...
Prakti
The Prakti Multiple Fuel Stove (MFS) is made of durable stainless steel to preserve the look of a traditional stove. The Prakti MFS cooks 40% faster, creates 80% less smoke and cuts fuel usage in half, as compared to unimproved cooking methods ...
Prime Cookstoves
Prime Cookstoves provide high-efficiency, ultra clean biomass cookstoves. These stoves are top-lit updraft (TLUD) biomass stoves that use a preheating, counter-flow and co-firing burning mechanism. Suitable biomass fuels include fuelwood, wood ...
Samuchit Enviro Tech
The Sampada stove is a natural draft gasifier which produces charcoal as a bye product. For every kg of wood burned, it is possible to get cooking energy for about 30 min with about 200 gm of charcoal left behind. The charcoal can be used as ...
ZZ Manufacturing
The Sierra Zip Stove is an efficient portable stove that burns small pieces of wood, fuel pellets, or other organic carbon-based fuels using a battery-powered ventilation which feeds oxygen to the fire. Appropriate for camping or nomadic ...
One Earth Designs
The SolSource is a lightweight solar energy device that provides users with a low-cost and portable means of cooking, heating and electricity generation.
Co-designed with rural Himalayan communities, the SolSource eliminates many of the ...
TrinySol
The solar reflectors can be used to bake, cook, or fry all kinds of food, as well as, to generate steam. They are based on the Scheffler type, as they are built of steel sections presenting 16 m² of highly reflective aluminum. Powered by a ...
Solavore
The Solvore Sport is a solar cooker that reaches temperatures from 210º – 260º F, maxing out at 300º F. This makes it suitable for slow cooking food. Cooking time is twice as long as conventional methods, with an additional half hour for the ...
SunFire Solutions
Sunfire is a solar based cooking solution. Cooking on a parabolic solar cooker can be compared to using gas. Heat is instantaneous, making Parabolics the ideal solar cooker for breakfast fry ups and Braais. Heat is concentrated to the bottom of ...
SolSuffit
The SuniCook is a sustainable, parabolic solar cooker. The solar cooker catches the sun and reflects its radiation in the center of the parabole, which is easily adjustable.
A shell-shaped (parabolic) surface composed of polished aluminum ...
Individual Endeavior
The Swirl Flame Commercial LPG Cooking Burner is a gas burner with up to 15% higher thermal efficiency and reduced emissions, as compared to tradtional LPG burners.
This newly designed burner consists of a burner barrel, a main mixing tube ...
Technology Informatics Design Endeavour (TIDE)
Biomass is a primary fuel source in India. Most commonly, wood is collected from forests and burned in stoves for cooking and other processes. TIDE aims to improve the efficiency of cooking stoves, and reduce the need for biomass fuel, and its ...
Volcano Grills
The portable Volcano Stove collapses down to 5" and makes use of passive ventilation for highly efficient cooking. Although too heavy for backpacking, it is highly portable for car camping or travel. It can be powered by three different cooking ...
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
WAFFCO (Waste-Fuel Free Combustion) is a universal solid biogenic fuel-fired furnace with closed combustion chamber. It is constructed mainly of clay and metal, and designed to replace open-fire stoves.
WAFFCO is a closed biomass burning ...
Wonderbag
The Wonderbag is a heat-retention cooking bag.
A Wonderbag is an insulated bag in which people can cook anything from meaty stews and vegetable curries to simple rice and soups. You kick-start the cooking process by heating your pot of food on ...