Dear Friends of Solar Household Energy, Thank you for your interest and support for SHE.  Without your contributions we would be unable to offer low-income and remote communities in developing countries comprehensive programs introducing efficient, clean-energy solar cookstoves… Read More

SHE collaborated with multiple partners to carry out a 10-person focus group solar cooker project in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya in June 2022. This small project costing only $1000 provided ten beneficiaries with solar cookers, heat-retention baskets,… Read More

Roger Haines, SHE Board member and maker of Haines Solar Cookers, partnered with the University of Malaga in Spain to test the Haines 2.0 solar cooker. This study, entitled “Experimental characterization of the thermal performance of the Haines… Read More

Paul Arveson, SHE Research Director, produced technical report 38 describing a method for measuring standard solar cooker power with low-cost commercial instruments. A previous Technical Report, TR-17, concluded that a low-cost lux meter can be used in place… Read More

SHE promoted solar cooking at the 2022 Montgomery County GreenFest held at Brookside Gardens on April 23rd, alongside over 60 sustainability-minded exhibitors. SHE volunteers solar cooked food for sampling from a variety of solar cookers for GreenFest attendees,… Read More

On April 21, 2022, SHE presented and participated as a panelist in a transatlantic discussion on “Low-Tech Innovation,” a virtual event hosted by the French Embassy in Washington, DC’s Science and Technology Service, “France Science,” to celebrate Earth… Read More

For background information, please see “100 Families Project.” Food support As the Covid lockdown has eased, we have continued our food assistance to the 100 families, but at a reduced level. We are now giving $3 to each… Read More

SHE was invited to participate in Capitol Technology University (CTU)’s “Robotics in Disaster and Environmental Research” event with Disaster Aid USA on January 22, 2022. Paul Arveson, SHE Research Director, demonstrated the “sun burner,” a parabolic solar cooker, gave… Read More

SHE was invited to give a presentation on solar cooking to the the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group by its leader, Chris Puttock. Paul Arveson, SHE Research Director, and Roger Haines, inventor of the Haines solar cooker, gave a… Read More

We have often heard that food cooked in a solar cooker tastes different from food cooked in the conventional way.  Is this claim valid or merely a mistaken impression? SHE Research Director Paul Arveson has created a draft protocol… Read More