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Takeaways:
- An engineer in New Mexico is exploring new ways to roast green chiles – by using concentrated sunlight.
- Using a traditional steel-drum tumbling chile roaster and 38 mirror-like devices used to focus sunlight, the engineer was able to achieve a temperature above 900 degrees which is the temperature needed to roast the chiles.
- He found that by switching from propane to solar power would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2.68 pounds per 22 pounds of green chile roasted.
Click here to view the original web page at: Roasting Green Chile with the Power of the Sun
