Editing Wolfgang Scheffler

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[[Image:Wolfgang_Scheffler-Granada_2006.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Wolfgang Scheffler]] 
[[Image:Scheffler_Kitchen.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Egypt’s first [[Scheffler Community Kitchen]] at El Sherouk Farm near Alexandria.]]
'''Wolfgang Scheffler''' is the inventor/promoter of [[Scheffler Community Kitchen]]s―large parabolic dishes for [[Institutional solar cooking|community kitchen]]s, [[bakeries]], etc. Over 2000 large cookers have been built distributed worldwide by 2008. Wolfgang Scheffler was the recipient of a Special Recognition Award at the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony, held at the Navajo Education Center on December 1, 2006.

In 1982 Wolfgang Scheffler started developing a
[[parabolic]] fixed focus reflector that was later named after
him by his friends in [[India]]. From the beginning the
technology has been free for everybody to use, replicate
and further develop. Scheffler always shared his ideas
with anybody interested. He very soon joined with
friends, who had similar aims, to form [[ULOG]], a informal
group of people in [[Switzerland]] and [[Germany]]. Later
[[GloboSol]] (earlier VKSE) in Switzerland (in 1985) and
[[Solare Brücke]] e.V. in Germany (in 1992) were founded
by others to support the work of a slowly growing group
of people. Those two associations don’t concentrate on
Scheffler Reflectors alone: smaller solar cookers (like the
[[ULOG]] box cooker and the [[SK14]]) as well as [[solar drying]]
is included in their field of attention. Globosol has
mainly been financing courses on such technologies. In
the case of Solare Brücke, Scheffler Reflectors have
become the main focus. Mr. Scheffler has been on the
board of directors since 1998 and was elected president
of the association in 2001. Since then Solare Brücke has
developed into a center of competence for these
particular reflectors and their different applications.
==Audio and video==
*{{NewJul15}}'''July 2015:'''
::[[File:Scheffler mirror demonstrations.wmv|thumb|none|400px|[[Wolfgang Scheffler]] explains the workings of two of his automatic tracking parabolic cooking systems, and the design of his solar food dryer.]]

*{{NewJun19}}'''April 2013:''' [http://www.sunpod.de/2013/04/098_sunpod_interview-wolfgang-scheffler-scheffler-spiegel/ Wolfgang Scheffler: Die Geschichte des “Scheffler-Spiegels”] - ''SunPod''

*{{NewFeb16}}'''April 2011:'''
::[[File:Scheffler-Spiegel|thumb|none|400px|Wolfgang Scheffler erläutert auf der Konferenz "Solarenergie für Afrika 2010" in Düsseldorf die Funktionsweise des von ihm erfundenen solaren "Scheffler-Spiegels".]]

==Documents==
*'''January 2009:''' [[Media:Back-up_for_Solar_Driers_with_hygroscopic_Calcium_Chloride_-_Wolfgang_Scheffler_&_Heike_Hoedt_2009.pdf|Back-up for Solar Driers With Hygroscopic Calcium Chloride]] - ''Wolfgang Scheffler & [[Heike Hoedt]]''

==Articles in the media==
*'''November 2009:''' Beyond Zero Emissions interviews [[Wolfgang Scheffler]]: [http://podcast.beyondzeroemissions.org/audio/podcast-2009-04-05-33994.mp3 Audio] and [http://beyondzeroemissions.org/media/radio/scheffler-dish-cooking-and-power-developing-countries-091104 Transcript] (Thousands of [[Scheffler Community Kitchen]]s are now installed at hundreds of locations around the world. Wolfgang Scheffler has made his dish designs and associated intellectual property available for free to create a solar world.)

[[Image:Scheffler-Hindustani_Times_2008.jpg|thumb|Hindustani Times 2008]]
*'''July 2008:''' [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820844,00.html India's Temples Go Green] - ''Time Magazine''

==See also==
*[[Solare Brücke]]
*[[Scheffler Community Kitchen]]
*[[ULOG Freiburg]]
*[[Gadhia Solar Energy Systems]]
*[[Media:Granada06a_Wolfgang_Scheffler.pdf|Introduction to the Revolutionary Design of Scheffler Reflectors]]
*[[Media:Granada06_wolfgang_scheffler.pdf|Development of a Solar Crematorium]] - ''Wolfgang Scheffler''

==External links==
*[http://www.solare-bruecke.org/infoartikel/info_vorstand.htm#english Info on W. Scheffler]
*[http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2002/august/cooker.htm Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University-NGO]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20040116060102/http://www.geocities.com/davidmdelaney/scheffler-precis/scheffler-precis.html Scheffler's Community Solar Cookers]
*'''August 2008:''' [http://picasaweb.google.com/manisha.javeri/IndiaSolarEnergyProject A large collection of photographs of Scheffler reflectors in India]
*'''July 2006:''' [http://solarcooking.org/media/broadcast/default.htm?pilz Audio interview with ][[Golo Pilz]]<span> discussing his extensive work with large Scheffler cooker installations</span>

==Contact==
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[[Germany]]

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