Tom Hallquist

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Solar Oven Reflectors, Tom Hallquist's company, has spent the last five years building prototypes of solar ovens. This effort is best described as a cottage basement industry. We have concluded there are five design essentials for solar ovens are: affordable, simple, portable, durable, and nesting for shipping of components. Our current design is based on purchasing materials for 160 or more solar cookers. This allows anyone manufacturing this solar ovens to obtain price breaks for bulk purchase of materials. Assemble is done using good quality hand tools. We are currently using Graniteware 517 pots which do not nest. All other components do nest together. The ovens use a polycarbonate dome that sits on a reflector assemble. The reflector tilts to the sun allowing one to cook from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. The domes nest.
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*March 2023: Elie Joseph has shared some photos of a recent solar cooking demonstration at the rural Donne orphanage in Haiti. This was the first solar cooking demonstration and teaching by Solar Ovens for Orphanages at this location. They have 8 teachers and 4 cooks on staff. Elie relates; 'About 70 children attended the demonstration and enjoyed the omelet and cakes. 60 eggs were prepared at the same time and 8 bags of cakes. It took 1.5 hours for cooking plus 15 minutes of preparation. The four cooks are the people responsible for preparing the omelet and cakes, I just supervise them. The event took place on March 23, 2023. I spent an hour training with the teachers, students and cooks during the demonstration teaching and answering questions. They used 8 of the 9 solar oven reflectors that Tom Hallquist had sent as a gift. The plan is to continue working with the orphanages and prepare a strong team in each orphanage to continue using the solar cookers, and I can come at any time to check them and see how things are going.'
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E. Joseph Donne 1, 3-27-23.png|Currently, the cooking has been done over open fires
E. Joseph Donne 2, 3-27-23.png|The cooks prepare all the food for the eight solar panel cookers
E. Joseph Donne 3, 3-27-23.png|Elie explains using the solar cookers 
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*March 2023: Tom Hallquist has provided an update on his cooperative efforts with Elie Joseph in Haiti. So far, Tom has provided fifty Sundome Solar Cookers, and Elie Joseph has introduced to four local orphanages. Their arrangement is working, and Tom predicts more cookers can be sent in late summer or early fall 2023.
*February 2023: Demonstrating solar cooking at the local orphanage - Elie Joseph held this demonstration at the orphange in Hinche, Haiti run by Pastor Lavaud. Staff at the orphanage related that they love cooking out in the open in full sun. Using the solar cooker has made a measurable drop in the amount of charcoal and firewood they typically use. Tom Hallquist, living in , USA, supported the projected and provided the Sundome Solar Cookers. 
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E. Joseph demo orphanage 1, 2-8-23.png|The reflectors of the Sundome Solar Cookers are removed to check on the cooking food.
E. Joseph demo orphanage 2, 2-8-23.png|The cookers are arranged along the wall cooking away. Photo credits: Elie Joseph
 
*June 2021: The Big Blue Sun Museum's Luther Krueger interviewed Solar Oven Reflectors' Tom Hallquist for Season 2, Episode 2 of an on-going video series on solar cooking. Tom discussed his cooker fabrication and his work to promote solar cooking while attending the Midwest Renewable Energy Association's Energy Fair in Custer, Wisconsin on June 26, 2021.
==See also==
*Sun Dome Solar Oven and Cooker
*Solar Oven Reflectors
==Contact==
Email: solaroventom@gmail.com
Web: http://SolarOvenReflectors.com
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