{"id":454,"date":"2011-01-11T02:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T02:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2011\/01\/solar-box-cookers-only-work-when-the-sun-is-shining-so-what.html"},"modified":"2011-01-11T02:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T02:03:58","slug":"solar-box-cookers-only-work-when-the-sun-is-shining-so-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/01\/solar-box-cookers-only-work-when-the-sun-is-shining-so-what.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar Box Cookers Only Work When the Sun is Shining &#8211; So What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By now, I suspect, some of my more skeptical readers will doubtless be  jumping up and down, eager to point out that solar cookers aren\u2019t viable  everywhere, and only work when the sun\u2019s shining.  This is of course  true, but it\u2019s also beside the point. Nothing in the appropriate  technology toolkit is suited to every context \u2013 that\u2019s one of the  implications of that word &#8220;appropriate,&#8221; after all \u2013 and nothing ever  again in human history will provide our species with the kind of  instant, context-free torrent of energy we now get from fossil fuels.  Once those are gone, the entire approach to technology that\u2019s built on  the assumption of abundant, highly concentrated, highly portable energy  supplies goes whistling down the wind, and the approaches \u2013 in the  plural \u2013 that will replace it are going to be less convenient, less  portable, and less capable of ignoring the rest of the cosmos than what  we\u2019re used to&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/tarpaper-shack-principle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read at the Archdruid Report<\/a> + <a href=\"http:\/\/solarcooking.wikia.com\/wiki\/Category:Box_cooker_plans\" target=\"_blank\">solar cooker plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By now, I suspect, some of my more skeptical readers will doubtless be jumping up and down, eager to point out that solar cookers aren\u2019t viable everywhere, and only work when the sun\u2019s shining. This is of course true, but it\u2019s also beside the point. Nothing in the appropriate technology toolkit is suited to every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}