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solarbobky replied to Sepp's discussion A report about the construction of solar fired communal kitchens in Haiti"Concentrating collectors don't work reliably except in dry area, like deserts where there is no cloud cover. The least cloud cover or haze and light gets scattered and can't be focussed. This thing looks extremely dangerous with the focus…"
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"I would think that self-sufficiency also includes the concept of having stocks of food so a bad harvest is not a catastrophe. It also means not to rely on just one type of food but to have a diversity of options, like mixing grains, vegetables,…"
A report about the construction of solar fired communal kitchens in Haiti
A friend in Switzerland reports on the construction of solar furnaces for communal kitchens in Haiti. Workshop for the construction of Scheffler Community…See More
"It would seem to me that self-sufficiency is a minimum condition (of not needing anything from others to ensure basic survival). The concept of self-sufficiency does not preclude that there may be abundance and - consequently - trade with…"
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This looks like a very interesting collection of ideas for real sustainability, not the kind promoted by big money interests, but one that allows people to become independent in the sense global swadeshi envisions.It's a book published by South End Press and available at their site. The book can also be downloaded directly from Scribd, where the introduction can be read. Link:…See More
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- What's the coolest thing you've ever seen?
- A vortex-driven simple hydroelectric power plant that could revolutionize the way we utilize the potential of water for energy.
- What's the coolest thing you've ever dreamed?
- Being able to fly without any mechanical means to help
- About Me
- Idealist, generalist, supporter of natural health, free energy, economy alternatives.
- What I'm contributing to humanity and the planet
- Helping to network
- Blog (some place with an RSS feed we can aggregate)
- http://blog.hasslberger.com
- Tell us about your project/s (please include project URLs)
- With friends I individuated areas in our civilization that need urgent change, and those are the things I work on. Not a formal project, to be sure, but it is an outline that gives direction to what I have been doing since the 80s now - for a good 20 years.
The outline of areas to change and roughly what direction we should be going in, is at
Genova, the Azores and our Common Future
- Where are you located? (if you know LAT/LONG we will put this on a map later)
- Rome, Italy most of the time,
Terceira island, Azores, some months each year.
- What specific skills, technologies or connections you would like to find among the Global Swadeshi Network members?
- A spread of every skill, technology and connection - the broader the better.
About that power plant ...
Here is the concrete structure of the vortex-forming basin without the turbine/generator. You can see the overflow and the very low head (altitude differential) needed for this type of plant.
And here a picture of the vortex actually driving a slow moving turbine (the turbine blades are made from simple bent metal sheets). Fish love it, because they can pass right through.
More information here:
Water Vortex Drives Power Plant
And here a picture of the vortex actually driving a slow moving turbine (the turbine blades are made from simple bent metal sheets). Fish love it, because they can pass right through.
More information here:
Water Vortex Drives Power Plant
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NEGATIVE ENTROPY AND SUSTAINABILITY
I am putting this article by T. Vijayendra here not because it is of immediate concern for swadeshi, but because I just read it and want to keep it available.
In one of my early articles, A New Beginning For Thermodynamics, I argued that the second law of thermodynamics is not a final reality, but that there is a reverse force to entropy which complements it. Buckminster Fuller called that reverse entropy 'syntropy', and… Continue
In one of my early articles, A New Beginning For Thermodynamics, I argued that the second law of thermodynamics is not a final reality, but that there is a reverse force to entropy which complements it. Buckminster Fuller called that reverse entropy 'syntropy', and… Continue
Posted on June 13, 2008 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments
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- At 2:40pm on May 15, 2008, Vinay Gupta said…
- wow this is utterly amazing. welcome, Sepp, and I look forwards to hearing more about your work.
Could you tell us more about it here:
http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A257
Thank you!
- At 6:44pm on May 15, 2008, Vinay Gupta said…
- As i said, I don't know much about hydropower, but I'm eager to learn, and my "gut feeling" is that the vortex generator has a lot of promise. The fact that most of the "work" is done in making a basin for the water to move through, and that the generator component itself is very very simple feels to me like the right sort of engineering for the poor. Likewise fish-friendliness.
I'm very happy to find out about it, and more when I have done some reading.
- At 6:19pm on June 6, 2008,
Josef Davies-Coates said…
- Love the vortex thing! :)
- At 8:52pm on October 31, 2008,
David Braden said… - Love your power plant - good to see you here as well
It will be interesting to see how this group responds to the self-help corporation - I guess it just didn't fit with the preconceptions of the open money people.
- At 12:20am on November 21, 2008,
David Matos said… - Hi Sepp:
They are not showing everything.
Translation, ….they are perfect moving the material around to mix it.
They have to use normal "safety" mechanical pressure valve that will close and open after a preset pressure.
To provide information and knowledge for everybody, we should start a wiki Oral.
New Tech, is making possible a voice interface (command and audio-video files)
Compliments
David
- At 4:13pm on November 21, 2008, David Matos said…
- Hi Sepp:
Africans have oral tradition. They only did get alphabetized in the last 50 years.
Majority does not read at all.
They have difficulty learn from reading.
All of them have good musical skills, meaning good hearing memory.
If we could provide a Wikipedia, in which instead of writing the papers, we talked adding graphics, we could give information to all. Alphabetized or not.
I am working on a proposal to our government to start implementing an E Govern, and a voice command cellular phone connected to a computer by wireless technology.
The Kit to sell to the population will be;
A simple cell phone, a laptop (the 100us Intel computer upgraded) and a 100 w solar panel.
The solar panel has the wireless antennas, and is wired to a box inside the house to charge the phone, the computer and others, like led lamps.
Cell phone with cellular technology (LTE) and WiFi (wireless) technology.
It will connect to the laptop via wireless and to others via cellular technology.
The laptops will be connected on a sharing CPU protocol (BOINC), like a big wireless mainframe computer.
This means that your cell phones you will be always connected to your computer thru the CPU of the closest laptop.
Mid next year will be launch a software that will make this possible.
Lets see how it goes.
Regards
David
- At 9:28am on November 22, 2008, David Matos said…
- I am working on it.
Did you see my explanation of the valve on the organic digester?
It is very clever, no mechanical valves at all.
David
- At 6:51pm on November 26, 2008, David Braden said…
- Yes, I am considering attending this year. Michael Maranda, Ted Ernst and I are trustees for the Emerging Futures Network - no current activity because we couldn't get consensus on how to proceed - but we still keep in touch.
- At 10:23pm on November 26, 2008, David Matos said…
- Hi Sepp:
Did you see the email that i send about "Angola an Open Source"?
David
- At 4:41am on November 27, 2008,
Gregory said… - Cool stuff!
Exciting innovations...it would be exciting to link you to some of the folks that are working on things here on The Farm.
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