Users and disusers of box solar cookers in urban India—: Implications for solar cooking projects
✍ Scribed by Bashir Ahmad
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 46 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-092X
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✦ Synopsis
The purpose of this study is to understand the reasons behind the continued use or disuse of solar cookers, and to outline the implications from the results of this study for future solar cooker projects. Twenty-eight families in three urban sites in Gujarat, India who have a solar cooker have been interviewed. Their experience with solar cookers and solar cooking is studied. Direct discussions with families who have practical experience with solar cooking, brings forth significant practical issues. The study shows that many disusers of solar cookers do not have a suitable place for their solar cookers. Other disusers could not adjust their daily routines with what solar cooking requires, and some disused their solar cookers because they were not interested in using them. Both objective factors and aspects of practical interest have been shown to be important issues for understanding the conditions of prospective users and the shaping of the projects and the relevant technologies. It is concluded that project developers should consider the potential users as an important partner in project development processes. For example project developers can by close dialogue with them, uncover and define practical parameters which have important bearing on higher usability of solar cookers.