Cooking with the sun - a comparative country analysis of Solar Cooking, its adoption and impacts on people's lives

The project concerns general challenges realted to development and implementation of solar cookers in a rural African enviroment. A new small scale concentrating solar energy system with a high temperature heat storage is beeing developed in a research collaboration between NTNU and 5 African universities. Non-technical issues which can limit the use of new solar cookers have been the subject of an extensive MPhil study at NTNU. The project brings these two types of activities together to make a multidi sciplinary effort on challenges related to introduction of new, small scale solar energy systems at the level of households and institutions. The project will focus on the following particular issues: - Comparative studies on adoption and impact of solar cookers - Gender aspects in the introduction of solar cookers - Evaluations of climate and health benefits resulting from a shift from bio energy towards solar energy