Rolf Behringer
From Solar Cooking
Rolf Behringer founded ULOG Freiburg in 1993. Since then he has mainly worked in African countries implementing solar cooker productions and trained experts in the field of solar cooking.
From 2000 up to 2003 he worked for the German Development Service in Namibia. Besides his main activity he supported the Solar Stove Project Valombola based at the Vocational Training Center in Ongwediva. In 2005 he initiated the International Solarfood Processing Network while he was working at ISES Headquarter (Intertnational Solar Energy Society: www.ises.org). As a result several workshops and trainings have taken place and the first international conference focussing exclusively on Solar food processing for income generation was held in Indore (India) in January 2009 in cooperation with the Barli Development Institute for Rural Women.
A documentation of results is available here.
A brochure was developed to spred the idea of solar food processing by showing selected examples. Link to brochures
His longterm objective is to extend the Solar Food Network and to implement Solar Food Processing units around the globe.
In Freiburg (Germany) he is producing solar box cookers and is running an internet shop. Besides working in the field of solar cookers he is teaching Renewable Energy and Energy Awareness at schools and universities.
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[edit] News and recent developments
- March 2006: Sperancea Gabone (on left in photo) recently held a solar cooker exhibition at Mawenzi primary school in Moshi, Tanzania. Over 20 people gathered to learn about solar cooking and to taste solar-cooked food, including ugali, meat, beans and rice. Rolf Behringer, of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), led a solar box cooker construction workshop at nearby Karanga Technical School, and joined Ms. Gabone at the exhibition. In addition to solar box cookers, retained-heat cookers were also used. (A retained-heat cooker, also known as a fireless cooker or “hay box,” is an insulated enclosure in which is set a pot of food that has been brought to a boil, allowing it to continue to cook after being removed from its heat source.)
[edit] Documents
- January 2009: Solar Food Processing Network 2009 - Rolf Behringer
[edit] External Links
- Setting up small-scale solar bakeries
- ULOG Freiburg Website
- Second International Solar Food Processing Conference in India, 14 to 16 January 2009
[edit] Contact
Solar Food Processing Network
Rolf Behringer
Haierweg 27
D-79114 Freiburg
Germany
Phone: +49 761 1373680
solarfood@robeh.de
http://www.solarfood.org
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