Solar Power Can Provide Hot Meals for the Masses

In some of my kitchens, the ranges can span ten burners across, and they’re constantly topped with pots and pans of food simmering all day long. Without these burners, nothing would be possible. Not the food we serve, the experiences we create. This business that I have built my life upon for the last 25 years would not exist. 

In countries that don’t have efficient cooking technologies, these stoves aren’t just affecting their businesses; they’re affecting their lives. For so many people around the world, just being able to light a stove, and to find the fuel to be able to do it, is an incredibly difficult effort. Each day, 3 billion people around the world cook their meals using fuels

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