Solar Ibex is a high performance outdoor, user friendly cooking solution with an auto tracking sun ray concentrator.
It features adjustable cooking time, up to 300 degrees Celsius, and the ability to cook, boil and bake.
It is foldable and lightweight for portability.
It is powered by renewable energy, using the Solar Ibex produce zero carbon footprint
Excellent at base camp for climbing expeditions, alpine refugios and remote settlements. The use of Solar Ibex for prolonged periods saves overall weight. It does not rely on depleting resources, and reduces fuel consumption and its logistics costs.
Prototype A
This full scale manual solar oven is the main prototype used to test different aspects of the cooker such as ergonomics, foldability, parabolic reflector depth, axis location and such.
The prototyping method is C.A.D* based. This allows for a fast modeling process, controlled change and calibration between models. As this is an early prototype, its materials and form are a result of practicality, testing primary aspects and functionality of the product. Form and materials will be treated in later stages of the process.
* Computer Aided Design
Tracking model
This simple light tracking model demonstrates the tracking method used by the solar cooker.
This tracking method is very practical because it is autonomous and tracks the light source accurately
regardless of its ground location or angle.
The model is fully autonomous and works perfectly.
The same system can be easily implemented in different projects involving light tracking.
The model uses custom coded Arduino platform.
A pan/tiltmechanism driven by two standard servo motors, light measurement is taken by a Phidget light sensor.
An early sun cooker made from an old satalite dish.
Yael is a member of our testing group. she uses solar cooker on daily basis for many years. Yeal has teamd with us to develop a better cooker.
Testing grounds
Located deep into the desert of Israel, Shaharut community settlement was chosen as the ideal testing ground for the Solar Ibex.
Climate conditions and the community's life style offer challengeing weather and demanding usage
to the solar cooker, thus promoting study and improvement of the product.
Various prototypes of the Solar Ibex are used on a daily basis and serve their users well.
axis
Creating heat
Parabolic solar cooker creates heat by concentrating sun rays.
All rays entering parallel to the axis reflect in the focus.
Further information
www.solarcooking.org - parabolic reflector
Parabolic inferno
Matching reflector slices covered with mirror film are combined to create a perfect parabolic reflector.
With 1 meter in diameter, high temperatures are reached to achieve
a group scale cooking solution.
Auto sun tracking
In order to crate heat, the reflector must face the moving sun.
Having an integrated tracking mechanism,
all you have to do is adjust the cooking time and heat intensity;
the cooker will do the rest.
Foladble and Portable
Designed for transportation and tool-less assembly,
the cooker is a go-everyware cooking solution.
Built-in gear motors
Powered by the built in solar panel,
miniature gear motors drive the
parabolic reflector towards the sun.
Slip mechanism allows manual override
Safety grill
Limit pins lock the pot in position to avoid spilling.
Adjustable to accept different pot diameters.
The grill is height adjustable to create different heating characteristics, concentrated beam for boiling or spreaded beam for baking and cooking
Position Everyware.
The cooker base is a telescopic tripod.
This setup allows positioning on uneven ground and folds into a small package.
The base offers peg fixing to ground in order to withstand harsh weather conditions.
360
Designed for 3D tracking.
Easily and accuratly adjusted to the sun
regardless of its ground location.
Many climbers visit Jo.Si.To climbing camp during the climbing season. During their stay, they cook on personal fossil base stoves, a few solar cookers located in the camp will reduce feul consumption its costs, add the ability to bake.
an alpine refugio that depends on solar power for basic lighting. cooking is done by fuel, takes 100km away with a truck and carried up the mountain by mules.
in the deep desert of Israel, a small alternative community settelment named Shaharut. Yael is using her solar cooker on daily basis, "sun is abundent, and the food comes great".
This remote station is manned all year round, its logistics is vary complicated, During the lightened seasion, Solar Ibex will provide vital solutions otherwise impossible - hot water for shower, drying clothes and baking, while reducing logistics costs.
Located on the mountains of Tierra del fuego offers shelter for hikers, solar cooker can be a good alternative for camp fire cooking to avoid fire potential
Case studies
Based on personal experience, these examples from around the world demonstrate how Solar Ibex can be useful in different situations and climate conditions.
Boil, Bake & Cook.
Some stoves are good cookers, some are better at boiling. Solar Ibex brings food variety never seen before outdoors.
Adjust the location and size of the cooker's ray concentration to get your preferred cooking condition.
With Solar Ibex you can bake, cook, boil, fry, bbq, steam, roast and more.
Reduce logistics costs
Logistics to remote and hard access locations are both difficult and expensive. The Solar Ibex cooker can support the majority of cooking needs. Using it will lower fuel usage, logistics cycles and costs will decrese.
When out of fuel, as long as the sun is shining, the solar cooker will get the job done.
Portability
With a total weight of 8kg and folding size of a medium backpack, the cooker is smaller and lighter than the total amount of fuel you will need to carry and use for longer excursions or for a group of people.
Water purification
Where you cannot trust the quality of the water and purification is needed, purifying large amounts of water takes a great amount of energy. Since solar energy is abundant, purification can be done without worrying about running out of fuel.
Take a hot shower (you stinky cavepeople)
Just put a big pot of water on between your lunch and coffee breaks and make yourself a hot bucket shower.
Everest base camp - Eco-Everest Expedition 2008 - Ken Noguchi
Enviromental resposibility
Solar ovens consume none of our planet's limited natural resources.
their operation is clean and does not pollute or create any by-products.
Use a solar cooker when conditions are suitabe and set an example to your social circle.
Free energy
The solar cooker does not consume any fuel or electricity, therefore using it
will result in a dramatic reduction of houshold energy costs.
Safe
Safe for kids, as there is no flame, and cooking temperature can be lowered.
Safe in fire hazardous locations such as forests, as there is
no open fire, and the concentration focal point is located inside the reflector,
thus it cannot reflect heat beyond its limits.
During the cooking process nothing heats besides the pot itself.
The cooker does not heat either itself or its environment,
and heating can by stopped within mere seconds.
Fun
Solar cookers are fun and easy to use, they are great alternative
to BBQ's, gas, wood or electric solutions.
Although Solar Ibex is not primarily designed to serve the developing world, it still features many improvements over other solar cookers. Most of its mechanical characteristics can be adjusted to meet the economic requirements of a developing country. All in all, Solar Ibex offers a better solution than other available solar ovens.
For hundreds of millions of people around the world who cook over a fire fueled by wood or dung, and who walk for miles to collect wood or spend much of their meager income on fuel, solar cooking is more than a choice; it is a blessing.
For millions of people with no access to safe drinking water who get sick or even die from preventable waterborne illnesses, solar water pasteurization is a life-saver.
The World Health Organization reports that in 23 countries 10% of deaths are due to just two environmental risk factors: unsafe water, including poor sanitation and hygiene; and indoor air pollution due to the use of solid fuel for cooking.
Solar cookers are manufactured today either in home grade production or in workshops with basic abilities.
The concept of the Solar Ibex project is to develop a mass production solar cooking solution.
Through mass production we can achieve:
Lowering costs
Using advanced materials and modern production technologies
A reliable source of inventory
An ever developing product built on experience and research
We believe that this is the right way to propagate the use of
solar cooking around the world, to offer an appropriate
alternative to current western cooking solutions,
and to offer better solutions to developing countries.
The Designer
Nir Beit-av is an industrial designer.
currently employed at Tamooz C.S design studio.
He is a fresh graduate of H.I.T, Israel,
and lives in Tel-Aviv.
The Project
Solar Ibex is a vision in waiting.
It is seaking for cooperation -
either an individual or a group - who has the financial resources, understands the potential benefits of this future product and is willing to invest time and money to further develop the Solar Ibex. from concept to reality.
More on solar cooking
solarcooking.org
wikipedia - solar cooker
photographer: Geoffrey Nicholson
Solar Ibex on the web
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Name: Nir Beit-Av
Birth date: 10.4.1982
Studies:
2006 -2010 - B.Des at H.I.T, Israel, Dept of Industrial Design.
2008 - Exchange program at Moholy-Nagi University of Art and Design, Budapesht, Hungary
Awards:
2008 - Academy President Award of Excellence
2009 - Faculty Dean Award of Excellence
2010 - Excelled graduation project
2010 - OG25 finalist (Opportunity Green Product Design Competition)
Employment:
2010 - Industrial Designer at Tamooz C.S - Industrial design studio
