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Devine Lu Linvega

For more DIY projects to do with the vacuum tubes, there's this really cool workshop website.
dusoleildansnosassiettes.com/t

Devine Lu Linvega

The vacuum tubes are designed to keep the heat in, we have also a reflector that concentrates the sun rays. Some people put these little sun dials that works like a bull's eye to indicate if the reflectors are all angled.

ben🎃ui

@neauoire cooking stuff with the raw power of the sun is so cool

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua

@neauoire

I translate the name of the website, because "Sun in our dishes" is a great idea.

Devine Lu Linvega

@ddlyh we're not going to share the specific brand but I'm sure you can find similar models based on the handle design. We found ours at a local hardware store.

Calvin Heim

@neauoire That's so cool! 🤩 Which curve is the reflector? Parabolic? Or is it the elusive compound parabolic concentrator?

Devine Lu Linvega

@clh3 it's a piece of bent stainless that curves to follow the shape of the tube. I'm not sure what its name is

Calvin Heim

@neauoire Ooh🤔 that sounds like an involute curve, the first curve segment of a compound parabolic concentrator.

Calvin Heim

@neauoire One word of caution 🚧 : I've heard of tubes freezing and breaking if they're exposed to clear night sky -- but this event occurred with vacuum tubes with interior metal tubes filled with water. The research group at UC Merced had to cover their vacuum tube + reflector experiment at night due to hazardous radiative cooling.

Devine Lu Linvega

@clh3 ours are different, we use the household type that is normally installed on rooftops.

I am Jack's Lost 404

@neauoire

This gives me hope for a DIY green hot tub some day :)

Nina Kalinina

@neauoire @rek yes, they are pretty great when there's sun! I even "baked" with them - but it's more suitable for "steaming". In a good sunny day in London, it takes only ten minutes to boil water.

Devine Lu Linvega

@nina_kali_nina @rek When you boil water, do you pour water directly in, or do you have a long skinny pot that you can slip inside?

slewis

@neauoire @rek cool little solar oven! Does the tube-nature of it actually aid in the cooking process or is just a convenient reuse of vacuum tubes?

Devine Lu Linvega

@slew @rek not sure how the physics work on this thing yet :blob_cat_peek:

DELETED

@neauoire @slew @rek
Is it the same principle of a pressure cooker?
Or the reverse? 🤔

Devine Lu Linvega

@NicholasLaney @slew @rek it's not pressurized I think. The vacuum part is the double-walled glass tube.

42GB

@neauoire @rek I love those GoSun solar ovens. But with import taxes and shipping too expensive in the EU. Didn’t found a good alternative yet. Hope it works out for you! Looks good.

R E K

@42GB @neauoire Ppl in France group-buy the vacuum tubes so you can build something similar, might be a good route: dusoleildansnosassiettes.com/b

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