[Stoves] solar cooker response (changing thread name)

[Bernhard Müller]

Dear Nikhil and Crispin,
thanks for your encouraging words. I am 70 in the meanwhile and slowing down but I can assure you that European countries - among them Germany - continue to set up projects more than ever. They became more silent and intransparent in the meanwhile. I am concentrating - as a board member of the German NGO LHL (Lernen Helfen Leben) - on small poverty oriented projects regarding solar cookers, ND-TLUD gasifiers and fireless cookers only. 
I archived almost the entire documentation of the gtz South Africa project. At these times I had a solar cooker producing company and even sold many of the cookers produced by Koch through my own distribution chain. A South African NGO, Sunfire Solutions, emerged strongly out of the mess and is still disseminating solar cookers.
The world market of solar cookers is presently dominated by 1 Chinese producer and 2 American companies now who make very aggressive advertisement and PR, also with wrong and exaggerating arguments: GoSun and OneEarthDesign. Patrick Sherwin of GoSun even speaks about the „United Nations Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves“. Shall we Europeans adopt this behaviour or continue with honest marketing?
Have fun, have sun!
Bernie

> Am 14.06.2017 um 22:11 schrieb Nikhil Desai <pienergy2008 at gmail.com>:
> 
> Bernie: 
> 
> Thank you for the clarification. EUR 2.5 million is about what it takes to do a sizable, well-planned project between Germany and South Africa unless you had other GIZ presence in related energy activities. 
> 
> It is of course encouraging that it was a success. I often say that failure of a well-planned project is a gold mine; nobody plans to fail, so discovering what went wrong is much more enlightening than finding out how planning was done just perfectly right (and luck helped, as in most cases). 
> 
> Let's hope that Germany stays the course in funding new projects, rather than running away, leaving the field solely to GACC. 
> 
> Nikhil
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> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Bernhard Müller <bs_mueller at gmx.net <mailto:bs_mueller at gmx.net>> wrote:
> Crispin, Nikhil,
> the total costs of the gtz (now GIZ) solar cooker project in South Africa were EUR 2.5 million. I personally attended the final workshop and all participants explained it as a huge success story. According to my knowledge, gtz did not stop it because it was not successful, but because a large amount of money disappeared in South Africa. Presently it is difficult to approach GIZ regarding solar cookers because the new structure does not allow to place the lever at the right place(s). GIZ is far more intransparent than gtz was.
> Bernie
> 
> Bernhard S. Müller, http://www.mueller-solartechnik.com <http://www.mueller-solartechnik.com/> Eschborn, Germany
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