India Is The Home Of The Biggest Solar Kitchen
By Nick March 22, 2008
India is a country which is well known for its vast culture and form now on they will also be known as the country with the biggest solar kitchen in the world. The kitchen was designed by the Academy for a Better World and by the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University, but the technology came from the German company Solare-Brucke.
The system consists of 84 parabolic dish concentrators shell-type receivers which are cooking at 650 Fahrenheit degrees and when the sun give its best, the kitchen can produce 38,500 meals per day. India’s kitchen is situated at about 1200 meters above sea level in Taleti, near Mount Abu. The steam necessary to cook the meals is gathered in header pipes and then is sent through insulated pipes and after that the cooking begins.
The kitchen is a project of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Government of India, which allocated about $5 million to built it.
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