Question.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a solar cooker ? Are there places where solar cookers would have limited utility ?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a solar cooker ? Are there places where solar cookers would have limited utility ?
solution:
Advantages of solar cooker
(1) Using solar cooker saves our conventional fuels.
(2) Solar cookers do not cause any environmental pollution.
(3) The nutrients in the food are not destred if the food is prepared in solar cooker as the temperature inside it is not so high.
(4) Four food items can be cooked at a time in a box type solar cooker.
Disadvantages/limitations of solar cooker
(1) Solar cooker cannot be used during night time.
(2) During cloudy day, solar cooker cannot be used to cook the food.
(3) Direction of the reflector of solar cooker has to be adjusted time to time according to the position of the sun.
(4) In box type solar cooker, only limited food items can be prepared.
(5) It takes lot of time to cook food.
Solar cookers have limited utility at places which remain cloudy or have longer winter duration, e.g., hilly areas.
Advantages of solar cooker
(1) Using solar cooker saves our conventional fuels.
(2) Solar cookers do not cause any environmental pollution.
(3) The nutrients in the food are not destred if the food is prepared in solar cooker as the temperature inside it is not so high.
(4) Four food items can be cooked at a time in a box type solar cooker.
Disadvantages/limitations of solar cooker
(1) Solar cooker cannot be used during night time.
(2) During cloudy day, solar cooker cannot be used to cook the food.
(3) Direction of the reflector of solar cooker has to be adjusted time to time according to the position of the sun.
(4) In box type solar cooker, only limited food items can be prepared.
(5) It takes lot of time to cook food.
Solar cookers have limited utility at places which remain cloudy or have longer winter duration, e.g., hilly areas.