Post-2012 Gear: Kyoto Box
Submitted by Robert Bast on February 11, 2010 – 12:51 pmOne Comment
If anything good ever comes from the poverty in Africa, it’s the recent ingenious inventions providing self-help at affordable prices. Although the aim is to provide cooking/boiling facilities for the poor, this is a great concept for a post-cataclysm scenario. The parts are easily scavenged, and most people would have the skills to construct a Kyoto Box. Therefore boiling water and cooking food should be easy to achieve for just about anyone.
It might look a bit primitive and simplistic, but it is 400 times more cost effective than photovoltaics – and that’s if you buy one ready made. If you recycle, it’s basically free.
All you need is:
- 2 cardboard boxes – one a little smaller than the other
- a knife
- black spray paint
- aluminium foil
- glue
- duct tape
- insulation / packing material
In terms of scavenging, a supermarket or hardware store, and a dumpster are about all you’d need to source the above items.
Here’s the official site – if you want you could just buy a few to add to your supplies. Over at How Stuff Works is a video demonstrating it.
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Just to add one more requirement. If you live in the UK this will be about as useful as a chocolate kettle. You will either end up with food poising from a severely undercooked piece of meat or a handy drink from your box full of rain water.