date:Dec 28, 2012
Under a blazing sun in Mexico's central mountain range, a clutch of large dish-shaped solar panels suck up the light and beam the heat into a kitchen, cooking tortillas.
Forget coal, gas or electric ovens. German entrepreneur Gregor Schapers designed and installed giant circular solar panels in the small town of El Sauz to show that the sun's rays can cook up a storm too.
Schapers, who has lived in this town 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Mexico City since 2003, hopes that this environmen