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For me, this oven takes the cake!

London, April 9 (ANI): A solar-powered oven made from cardboard is the 50,000-pound winner of a contest to find the world's greenest invention.

The invention bagged the FT Climate Change Challenge crown after beating 300 other creations, including a food additive, which stops cows passing wind.

Kenya-based entrepreneur Jon Bohmer a Norwegian, set up Kyoto Energy with his Kenyan wife Neema, and has used his own money to fund the project.

The oven - which costs just 3.50 pounds to make - can slowly cook casseroles, boil water and bake bread.

It is made from two boxes, one inside the other with an acrylic cover, which lets the sun's power in and traps it.

Black paint on the inner box and silver foil on the outer help concentrate the heat while a layer of straw or newspaper between the two provides insulation.

Bohmer hopes that the oven would put an end to the use of firewood to cook in developing countries.

"We're saving lives and saving trees. I doubt if there is any other technology that can make so much impact for so little money," Sky News quoted Bohmer as saying.

He plans to use the prize money to conduct mass trials in 10 countries, including South Africa, India and Indonesia and gather data to back an application for carbon credits. (ANI)

That is absolutely 100% amazing!

It would be marvellous if such "cheap" devices could be backed by major companies- after all, would it hurt someone like Phillips, Vodafone or Sony to put their money and name behind this?

No, it would give them great publicity and "Kudos" around the World, and for their "Investment" they would probably gain a greater market share for their products, as well as assisting those in the World who are struggling!

Long answer, but no, I cannot think of better.

Excellent post.

I like the idea of the food additive that stops cows passing wind.
Surely they would swell up like a balloon if they couldn't fart. You'd have cows exploding in the fields!

Recently?

The Cell phone and its diffrent type of useage!

In the past!
I would go with the Bottle opener! It was easly thought of and simple! very hany too....

My mam has a stand for her kettle that tilts forward when she needs to fill her teapot etc . It saves her lifting the heavy kettle as she is disabled .

isnt cardboard boxes made out of trees also? i like the hanging tomato plant pot. it keeps the plants in the air so bugs that crawl can not get to them

isnt cardboard boxes made out of trees also? i like the hanging tomato plant pot. it keeps the plants in the air so bugs that crawl can not get to them

Solar toilets which may not need flushing by copious H2o

Iv`e been trying ti invent a sundial that works in the dark , but can`t find a backer

Adult nappies for men!

The Wheel.