Solar kettle

[Martin]

http://navitron.org.uk/solarpowerkettle.htm

[Thomzo]

Oh cool - or should I say HOT!

Does it really work?

Zoe

[Martin]

hope so! - we're taking one to a local festival on Saturday to demonstrate!
Will report back, complete with photos!

[Martin]

it works, and extraordinarily well!!
History was made again today - at a local water festival at Arlington Reservoir, where we were running a display of renewables, the world's first solar powered chai was brewed! - the two in the photograph pronounced it excellent!



More photos and details to follow!

[Clara]

Do you have photos of the kettle itself?

Checked out the website and they seemed to be holding it a bit awkwardly, is it cumbersome?

Fab idea though (looks a bit like one of the tubes from my solar hot water system, same principle?) - very interested in buying one, do you think it´d survive the post to Spain?

[Martin]

it IS a solar tube!
-this is a close-up I took of the top of it this afternoon - looking suspiciously like a glass of guinness!


-this really is very new - some of us have been mucking about with solar tubes, and discovered that you can use them to heat water a la kettle, and even cook with them (a friend has succeeeded in cooking the world's first solar sausage in one!) - our supplier is going to market them as kettles, but I only heard about it on Thursday, so details of packaging and postage prices will follow shortly..........

[Martin]

slightly longer shot of tube and chai fan!

[Clara]

bit limiting what you can cook in it! perhaps you could have spaghetti to go with the sausage

[Martin]

it'd be good for soup!

[Thomzo]

I take it that the outside doesn't get hot. Does it have a lid?

I'll put my name down for one.

Zoe

[Martin]

I believe it will have a lid (or cork!)..........the list of uses grows - someone's succeeded in doing scrambled egg in one, and there's the threat of a curry soon!
And the outside stays completely, uncannily cool!