Create a solar powered oven using a pizza box.

Solar powered pizza box oven made from aluminum foil

We can’t provide cooking lessons but we sure know how to make a cool little oven – out of a pizza box! And while we’re at it we’ll learn how thermal collectors are able to collect sunlight and convert solar radiation into heat.

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Making Sparks – Part II

Andreas_Cunaeus_discovering_the_Leyden_jar

Ever heard of a Leyden jar? It’s been around for over 200 years and is the forerunner of the modern day capacitor. The guy who invented it tested it on himself and stated that ‘my whole body was shaken as though by a thunderbolt’. And no, his name wasn’t Leyden – Leyden was the town…

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