[kaon_2]

Yes and no. You are right that indoor cooking (or outdoor on wood) is indeed one of the biggest causes of death worldwide. It dwarfs deaths by malaria. And where people don't die, it causes respiratory issues. I don't know the math but it is similar to smoking X cigarettes a day.

- sidenote - You always learn that in centuries past, people didn't grow old. I never knew why but my current suspicion is that air pollution by stoves and hearths was probably the top 3 cause.

However, cooking isn't (yet) solved by solar. Making heat from electricity is hard! Clean Cooking solutions often use propane, butane, or wooden pallets. Clean Cooking companies face all of the same issues as the Off grid solar companies of this article. But you'd be surprised that it is really considered a different industry. Customers and price plans are the same, but funding often comes from different sources.

Making affordable, electric, clean cooking solutions would be one of the most impactful inventions of our generation. Even then, challenges remain: No cultural activity is as steeped in tradition as cooking, and convincing people to change this, resulting in different tasting meals, is hard. Particular if it is the man deciding on the money, and the woman doing the work.

[myrmidon]

> Making heat from electricity is hard!

Why? All you need is resistive wires, and minimal, dirt cheap electronics for regulation and shutdown/safety.

You can find this in literally any $20 kettle or toaster, no need to supply Africans with induction cooktops for thousands of dollars...

[mrWiz]

You also need a buttload of electric power, which is the bottleneck.

[razakel]

>I don't know the math but it is similar to smoking X cigarettes a day.

The article says two packs a day.

[kaon_2]

I oversaw that thank you :)

[looofooo0]

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