"To help feed the country’s population, an inventor, Toufic Hamdan, created a commercial bakery to bake bread in solar ovens. The startup “Partners With Sun” has installed a solar convection oven on the bakery’s roof. The Solar Oven uses large silver mirrors to capture and magnify the sun’s rays to build heat. The heat is transported by a transfer fluid which is then used to help operate a convection oven, allowing it to reach a baking temperature of between 300 and 400 Celsius. The heat is used directly in food and beverage production. " Baking Bread in a Solar Oven | Happy Eco News

According to the company website, “The Solar Oven cuts up to 80% of the bakery’s fuel bill.”

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  • KlankyEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    This is super cool. Does it work when it’s cloudy?

    • Blair@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      12·
      5 months ago

      Not sure! It does not say on their website. Here’s the info they have:

      Partners with Sun invented and patented the first Industrial Solar Oven. The Solar Oven has been successfully tested and launched in the year 2022. The Solar Oven cuts up to 80% of the bakery’s fuel bill and improves its production efficiency, increasing its profits and savings. The Solar Oven is embedded with IoT technology to optimize energy consumption and production processes

      There is also a video here, if you just want to see more of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MEw6TFSu-E

      • KlankyEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        That is really neat, thanks for sharing the video. Looks like it might be able to move to track the sun. The bread looks delicious as well :-).

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, there’s not going to be fresh bread until after lunch whit way. But for mass production sandwich and rolls it probably doesn’t matter.