Earthday '99- There's Tess with Dave's initital nomadic solar cooker, demoing sun track drive for the Texas Solar Energy Society (TXSES). As the day progressed the cooker kept aim at the sun; pushed off track it returned to position. The menu included experimental tofu pork chops and beans.
This cooker is someday to sport a solar powered toy radio controlled truck under the tongue. As it rolls around the sun tracking keeps cooking.
The second nomadic cooker in progress. This chuck wagon feeds thirty or more. Dave at right.
Its a wheel barrow salvaged from a creek by Dave's cousin Reuben, that blossomed into a flower for human bees.
The reflective petals greatly enhance the cooking power, but fold down into a tight turtle shell for migration. This petal gaps handle winds well and allow student, family, and tribal groups to crowd around for show and tell and serving.
At upper left is a small solar panel on a mast for charging a battery. In periods of clouds and night this juice can fire a 50W halogen light bulb inside and cook just fine by heat trapped within the super insulation (wonder box) of the cooker. If this power fails, then a small methyl alcohol burner can be used. The object is to bothe reliable and renewable to the greatest extent practical. In photon mode an insulated radiant barrier coverlet is unrolled over the solar glass.
Below the cooker is the pantry, water, battery, eating utensils, spice rack, dishwashing sink; a complete kitchen.
Yellow bike project kicked out of South Austin, one of several refugee stashes go to Sagestick's chariot workshop (4) at Rainbow Gathering, Nomadic Circus (10), mutant bikes (3), cookers (2), bikeship (6), and other great destinies.
