SS+Solar+Box+Cookers+neg+-+Tires+CP

Text: The United States Federal Government should purchase disposed tires and distribute them and water pasteurization indicators using the method of multiple introduction to Sub- Saharan Africa.

Old tires can be effectively used to cook meals and sterilize water via solar power. Suresh **__Vaidyarajan__**, architect, **__No Date Given__** (Solidarity! Mayday DC: [|www.infoshop.org/breakingglasspress/TheTireCooker.pdf]) 1. There is a tremendous shortage of wood, kerosene and fuel and electrical power for cooking. When power is not accessible can we not use the tremendous heat of the sun to cook food? 2. __Take an old car tube.__ If the tube is punctured get it patched. __Inflate the tube and keep it on a wooden board.__ 3. Take an aluminum cooking vessel with a lid. Paint it black from the outside. __Put all the ingredients for cooking a healthy meal- rice, pasta, beans or legumes etc, salt, water etc. in the cooking pot.__ 4. Place the cooking vessel inside the tube. Cover the tube with a piece of plain glass. __Within three hours the meal will get cooked__. 5. __What happens? The place in the well of the tube is a closed cavity. Air neither goes out nor come in. The rays of the sun enter the glass and get trapped. Slowly, the temperature of the cooking vessel rises and the meal gets cooked. It can also cook water for sterilization!__ Keep water in for longer then 1 hour or until it can melt wax.

Tire pollution contributes to toxic smoke and poisonous gases- recycling solves __One big pollution problem is old tires. In the United States alone, there are more than two billion used tires.__ That's just too many tires. If the tires were stacked one on top of the other, they'd reach halfway to the moon! Old tires are a problem for a number of reasons__. First, tires take hundreds of years to decompose. Second, the tires sometimes catch on fire and can burn uncontrollably, sending toxic smoke into the air. That could be a serious danger to our health. Another problem comes from tires that are buried in garbage dumps. These tires can trap poisonous gases that would otherwise escape into the air. When the gases trapped by tires escape all at once, they can be dangerous for anyone who is nearby__. Sometimes the trapped gases make the tires shoot straight up out of the ground! __A good solution to tire pollution would be to reuse these tires, not bury them.__
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