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1. computer-financing.solarcooking.org
computer-financing.solarcookin - [Cached]Published on: 8/17/2008 Last Visited: 8/17/2008
Dr. Dieter Seifert, an engineer in the semi-conductor industry and dedicated solar cooker researcher, designer and promoter for 15 years, has a possible answer.
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Dr. Seifert bases his calculations on the performance and costs of the SK line of deep-focus, parabolic solar cookers, which he has been developing and improving since 1984 and which were proven effective in International Solar Cooker Tests in Spain and South Africa.Dissemination of these cookers and supporting workshops is coordinated by EG-Solar at the State Vocational School in Altoetting, Bavaria.Thus far over 6,000 SK12 and SK14 cookers have been distributed in more than 60 countries around the world.
To illustrate the great potential of solar cooking, Dr. Seifert starts with the estimate that one cooker can save about two tons of firewood per year, i.e. about 50% of a typical family's consumption.
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As Dr. Seifert has written, "The program needs favorable basic conditions and bilateral or multilateral agreements.A network of innovation institutions and associated partners, especially NGOs, is necessary to support the global program."
Dr. Seifert's idea of financing solar cooker dissemination through the JI/CDM process can be adapted by solar cooking promoters in any country that has pledged significant reduction of CO2 emissions. (Those favoring cookers other than the SK line can adapt the idea to their own cookers.) Solar cooker organizations should contact those authorities in their own countries who are responsible for achieving CO2 emission reductions through Joint Implementation efforts to learn how a solar JI/CDM program might be started.
In the United States, contact the US Initiative on Joint Implementation (part of the US Department of Energy) at PO-6/GP-196, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20585, or call 202-586-3288.One of the most likely sources of funding in the USA for a JI project would be an electric utility company that has signed the "US Climate Challenge."
In areas of firewood shortage, NGOs that are interested in pursuing the JI/CDM strategy for funding solar cooker projects should alert their partner agencies from industrial countries that have pledged to reduce CO2.
"I have no financial interest (in promoting solar cooking)," says Dr. Seifert."It is a matter of effective help for people who are forced by their poverty to destroy their own natural resources by burning trees and bushes, harvest remainders and dried manure and who cannot find a way out of their misery without external help.A small fraction of the financial means necessary for CO2 reduction that would have to be invested in the industrialized countries would suffice to overcome a global crisis, which will become a global catastrophe if no remedial measures are taken."
Dr. Seifert can be contacted at Siedlungsstr.12, D-84524 Neuotting, Germany, or by e-mail at bdiv.seifert@t-online.de -
2. www.solarcooking.org
www.solarcooking.org/newslette - [Cached]Published on: 7/1/2004 Last Visited: 3/19/2007
Dieter Seifert , inventor of the SK-14 and similar parabolic cookers , estimates that about 16,000 of his cookers have been produced worldwide. -
3. Solar Cooker Review -- December 1999
pet-supplies.solarcooking.org/ - [Cached]Published on: 12/1/1999 Last Visited: 6/11/2008
Dr. Dieter Seifert, an engineer in the semi-conductor industry and dedicated solar cooker researcher, designer and promoter for 15 years, has a possible answer.
...
Dr. Seifert bases his calculations on the performance and costs of the SK line of deep-focus, parabolic solar cookers, which he has been developing and improving since 1984 and which were proven effective in International Solar Cooker Tests in Spain and South Africa.Dissemination of these cookers and supporting workshops is coordinated by EG-Solar at the State Vocational School in Altoetting, Bavaria.Thus far over 6,000 SK12 and SK14 cookers have been distributed in more than 60 countries around the world.
To illustrate the great potential of solar cooking, Dr. Seifert starts with the estimate that one cooker can save about two tons of firewood per year, i.e. about 50% of a typical family's consumption.
...
As Dr. Seifert has written, "The program needs favorable basic conditions and bilateral or multilateral agreements.A network of innovation institutions and associated partners, especially NGOs, is necessary to support the global program."
Dr. Seifert's idea of financing solar cooker dissemination through the JI/CDM process can be adapted by solar cooking promoters in any country that has pledged significant reduction of CO2 emissions. (Those favoring cookers other than the SK line can adapt the idea to their own cookers.) Solar cooker organizations should contact those authorities in their own countries who are responsible for achieving CO2 emission reductions through Joint Implementation efforts to learn how a solar JI/CDM program might be started.
In the United States, contact the US Initiative on Joint Implementation (part of the US Department of Energy) at PO-6/GP-196, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20585, or call 202-586-3288.One of the most likely sources of funding in the USA for a JI project would be an electric utility company that has signed the "US Climate Challenge."
In areas of firewood shortage, NGOs that are interested in pursuing the JI/CDM strategy for funding solar cooker projects should alert their partner agencies from industrial countries that have pledged to reduce CO2.
"I have no financial interest (in promoting solar cooking)," says Dr. Seifert."It is a matter of effective help for people who are forced by their poverty to destroy their own natural resources by burning trees and bushes, harvest remainders and dried manure and who cannot find a way out of their misery without external help.A small fraction of the financial means necessary for CO2 reduction that would have to be invested in the industrialized countries would suffice to overcome a global crisis, which will become a global catastrophe if no remedial measures are taken."
Dr. Seifert can be contacted at Siedlungsstr.12, D-84524 Neuotting, Germany, or by e-mail at bdiv.seifert@t-online.de
