Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor)

Wolfgang Scheffler (born 1956) is the inventor/promoter of Scheffler Reflectors, large, flexible parabolic reflecting dishes that concentrate sunlight for solar cooking in community kitchens, bakeries, and in the world's first solar-powered crematorium.

With a friend he wanted to construct a mirror to use solar energy to make glass in developing countries.

To get to know an African country for the first time, he spent worked for six weeks in an aid camp in Kenya.

In 1985, they started, initially with simple solar cooking boxes made of cardboard, foil and glass.

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