SS+Solar+Box+Cookers+neg+-+Solvency

Multiple factors undermine cooker effectiveness including resources, cost, and breaks Patrice M. **__Rodgers 1994__** (Solar Box Cookers in Zimbabwe: The Introduction of a Radical Innovation in Cooking, http://solarcooking.org/zimb-the.htm)

Cultural beliefs, patriarchy and cooking styles discourage solar box cooker use
 * __Interpress service 7-31__** (July 31, 2007 Wednesday Kenya; Switch On the Sun to Get Cooking, lexis)

Africans will never adopt solar box cookers- lack of environmental concern and distrust of foreigners. William Noble **__Grundy 1995__** (“Solar Cookers and Social Classes in Southern Africa” Techné: Journal of Technology Studie Gray Norton, ed Vol. V, Winter 1995. pp. 3-7., [|http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~noble/safrica1.htm])

Culture and beliefs cause Africans to reject Solar box cookers.
 * __BioPact__** 5-2, **__2007__** (Gender and energy: why biofuels can benefit rural women http://biopact.com/2007/05/gender-and-energy-why-biofuels-can.html)

Box cookers don’t reach high enough temperatures to be effective Ferdinand **__Kroon No Date Given__** (Solar cookers in developing countries [|http://www.its.caltech.edu/~e105/readings/solarcookers.pdf])

Box cooker programs empirically fail- they cannot cook for large families and are too expensive Ferdinand **__Kroon No Date Given__** (Solar cookers in developing countries [|http://www.its.caltech.edu/~e105/readings/solarcookers.pdf])

The pots necessary to the ovens don’t fit within the oven Merridy **__Wilson__** and J Maryann **__Green__** (The feasibility of introducing solar ovens to rural women in Maphephethe, ISSN 0378-5254 Tydskrif vir Gesinsekologie en Verbruikerswetenskappe, Vol 28, 2000 http://www.up.ac.za/academic/acadorgs/saafecs/vol28/wilson.pdf)

Solar Box cookers are not practical- they don’t function during the winter and require sun glasses in order to prevent blindness
 * __The Herald 2004__** (Africa News, November 19, 2004, Zimbabwe; Solar: Best Solution to Energy Crisis, lexis)

Solar box cookers don’t spread Dr. **__Roy__** R**__.__** Grundy **__and__** William N. **__Grundy No Date Given__** (http://solarcooking.org/lesotho1.htm)

Neighbors don’t promote Solar Box cookers- they don’t spread from select areas. Patrice M. **__Rodgers 1994__** (Solar Box Cookers in Zimbabwe: The Introduction of a Radical Innovation in Cooking, http://solarcooking.org/zimb-the.htm)

Neighbors live to far away for the box cookers to diffuse throughout Africa. Patrice M. **__Rodgers 1994__** (Solar Box Cookers in Zimbabwe: The Introduction of a Radical Innovation in Cooking, http://solarcooking.org/zimb-the.htm)

Box Cookers are rejected because they fail to accommodate African tradition Patrice M. **__Rodgers 1994__** (Solar Box Cookers in Zimbabwe: The Introduction of a Radical Innovation in Cooking, http://solarcooking.org/zimb-the.htm)