Concentrating Cooker - Current Design Approaches

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Given that this year's design concept does not perform to specifications, creating a second design concept is an open question toward which any number of approaches may be taken. There is a large body of existing work concerning various methods of building concentrating solar cookers. The solar cooking wikia is one example of a resource that can be used (http://solarcooking.wikia.com). The Fall 2009 Final Report also discusses several examples of existing designs and the flaws and merits of various approaches. Although there are a large number of possible designs, our team believes that these characteristics should be retained if possible in the next design:

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A number of current ideas are suggested in the subsections below.

 
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 Figure 4 - Desired format for concentrating cooker

Alternative Secondary-Reflector Design

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