{"id":981,"date":"2015-04-17T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2021-12-30T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:31:31","slug":"gosol-solar-can-also-cook-bake-and-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"GoSol: solar can also cook, bake and steam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar electricity is an unstoppable force all over the world. &nbsp;Both in large scale solar farms and for the home-owner. &nbsp;But the energy from the sun can be used in many more creative ways. &nbsp;From drying your clothers, or drying fruit, to cooking a stew, baking bread, or even creating charcoal.<br \/>\nWe are happy to support the initiative from <a title=\"Go Sol Free the sun Fundraising Campaign \" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosol.org\/FreeTheSun\">GoSol.org<\/a>, to open-source the instructions to build simple and effective solar cookers. &nbsp;Here is an example on how their technology is being used:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mexico_gosol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-988\" src=\"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mexico_gosol1.jpg\" alt=\"small - roasting cocholate with the sun in Mexico\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mexico_gosol.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>These farmers are roasting cacao beans using the power of the sun. &nbsp;But this project has two very critical aspects:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Appropriate&nbsp;Technology<\/strong> (All materials can be sourced locally and built without advanced tools)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open<\/strong> (By&nbsp;<a title=\"Support Free The Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gosol.org\/FreeTheSun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting the project<\/a> you give open-access to the construction plans)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We want to congratulate the GoSol team for their success so far and hope they will continue providing opportunities to farmers, bakers, cookers and artisans all over the world. &nbsp;Below is an awesome bakery in Haiti:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/haiti_bakery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-994\" src=\"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/haiti_bakery.jpg\" alt=\"solar bakery\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nTo learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosol.org\/\">GoSol.org<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar electricity is an unstoppable force all over the world. &nbsp;Both in large scale solar farms and for the home-owner. &nbsp;But the energy from the sun can be used in many more creative ways. &nbsp;From drying your clothers, or drying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/?p=981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renooble","category-solar-hot-water","category-solar-pv","category-solar-pv-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renooble.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}