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Page of Alex Kee[top] [end]Who am I[top] [end]The Inventor of the Solar Kettle-Thermos Flask (SK-TF)http://www.freewebs.com/solarkettle/ http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/3/23/nation/13734441&sec=nation http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Alex_Kee http://solarcooking.org/media/broadcast/default.htm?kee[top] [end]Household energy experienceI have been harvesting Solar Thermal Energy for daily household use since young: clothes and food drying.However, it was only in the mid 1980s that I got acquainted with Solar Cooking from the Solar Cooking Association of Sacramento, California when they sent me a booklet on Solar Box Cookers and how to make them from simple and ubiquitous material: cardboard boxes, glass plane, aluminum cooking foil etc. I made my first Solar Box Cooker in 1995 and subsequently replaced them as they got worn and torn by the heavy rains that frequently fall in Equatorial Malaysia. I now used an aluminum sheet clad Solar Box Cook. In 2001 I got to know about the latest Solar Thermal Energy device: the Solar Thermos Tubes and started playing around with it, not knowing that it was the start of a wonderful and fulfilling journey of discovery in Solar Cooking and Food Processing. In 2002, I discovered the use of the Solar Thermos Tubes for life saving Solar Water Pasteurization in conjunction with a simple critical water pasteurization temperature indicator like the WAPI as advocated by the "Father of Solar Water Pasteurization": Professor Dr. Bob Metcalf of the USA. In 2003, I announced to the world that the Solar Kettle-Thermos Flask is now commercially available. In July 2006, I was invited to present a paper entitled, "The Solar Kettle-Thermos Flask (SK-TF), a Cost Effective, Sustainable and Renewable Water Pasteurization System the Developing World" , see http://www.freewebs.com/solarkettle/12_alex_kee.pdf SCI (Solar Cooking International, USA) and the Terra Organization, the organizers of the International Conference in Granada, Spain interviewed me and excerpts can be found on the Solar Cooking website: http://solarcooking.org/media/broadcast/default.htm?kee In early 2007, I was listed as a "Who's Who in the Solar Cooking Movement". My latest "obsession" is with the SaVeTaO (Solar Vacuum Tube Oven), basically a large diameter SK-TF that not only solar pasteurize drinking water but also makes baking, autoclaving and other free solar heating work viable as the diameter is a good 100mm vis-à-vis the SK-TF of just 47mm. The SaVeTaO could very well be the ultimate weapon in our fight against the global poverty in critical cooking fuel resources because it is powered entirely by the free energy of the Sun. The SaVeTaO like the SK-TF, being centered on Solar Thermos technology are "all climates" solar thermal devices: they just need diffused sunlight to function and need no tracking of the Sun or direct sunlight in order to work. Like the SK-TF, the SaVeTaO is also probably about the only solar thermal device that delivers while others fail: hot water, food and beverages early in the morning while the Sun is still fast asleep but a hot hearty breakfast is nonetheless critically needed. The SaVeTaO, like the SK-TF is also a Thermos or Dewar Vacuum Tube keeps previously heated water and food hot insulated through the night with its excellent vacuum insulation properties. The SaVeTaO shall be available soon; its production has all been lined up pending critical "pump priming": seed capital. Get Your Own Space Under the Sun, Get Empowered, Your Energy Freedom Assured, Sustainably and Renewably Too! {User:Alex Kee} 24 February 2007 | |
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