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  I'll concur with this: Nothing new under the sun here.

  I would have been more impressed if the grand prize winner won for his vastly successful marketing plan for this version of the solar cooker. It's great to be creative and improve the design of solar cookers to adapt to different communities so that people actually use them. With appropriate technology, the problem is always marketing. 

  It says in the article that the inventor hopes to bring the solar cooker to developing countries (maybe starting in Kenya, where he's based) to "build acceptiblity" for the product. I wish him the best of luck, because in my experience working with appropriate technology in Cameroon, that is by far the greatest challenge, not the design necessarily. 

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