Hi, I am Brian in Victoria BC Canada

[gaiatechnician]

I am a stonemason. I am very interested in solar cooking even though I do not do much solar cooking. Reason: I am away most of the days doing rockwork.
So I have being designing something low tech to hold the heat of the day for evening barbecueing! The tracking solar accumulating barbecue.
I have been at it 2 years and it is still not finished!
But there have been byproducts along the way.
I invented the "mechanical mathematician" a low tech way to make parabolic dishes and 2 low tech trackers (they made front page news on solarcooking dot org) and this fall I did a "compound" parabolic solar cooker.
Whats a "compound" parabolic cooker? Well, I will write that in a forum.
bye now
Brian

[MistieMae1]

Welcome, Brian. You sound like a very busy man! Your idea for a solar accumulating bbq sounds wonderful. Best of luck on that, and I can't wait to hear more in other threads.

[gardengirl72]

I go away for a few days and look who joins our humble forum! A stone mason working on solar barbecue. It's like I have died and gone to heaven. Welcome Brian, I and I can no wait to here more about your project. That is the kind of thing I have been dying to learn about.

[plantoneonme]

Brian, glad to have you on the group. I wish you lived closer. I would love to have a stone mason as a neighbor. I always wanted a large russian fireplace or something similar. Hope to hear more of your inventions! Kim

[Sinfonian]

Victoria BC, that's just up the road from Seattle! Welcome! How do you get enough sun to do solar cooking, I've said it wasn't possible here in the cloudy PNW?

[AbbeyLehman]

Welcome Brian!! Solar ovens will be a unit study for our little homeschool one of these days...It involves so many of the subjects--do you have any materials or ideas for me to make some that are geared toward a 7-8 year old? Feel free to post over in the homeschool forum...Thank you so much!!