Due to the influx of new folks, here is another introductory thread of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology
#Dharma #Dhamma #Buddhism #Metta #Meditation #Contemplation #Hesychasm

I'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread. #introduction #introductions

Some ill-informed critics of #degrowth see it as a return to the Stone Age. It isn't. Perhaps the best way to think about it is via the notion of #AppropriateTechnology.
However, just out of interest, sitting on Eastbourne's stony beach last week, I had a go at flint chipping. I was able to make a few sharp flakes that I might try setting in a stick to make a basic cutting or scraping tool. just for fun, you understand.
Man the toolmaker, that's me.

Open Source Residential Energy Storage - Battery news typically covers the latest, greatest laboratory or industry breakthr... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/15/open-source-residential-energy-storage/ #appropriatetechnology #renewableenergy #iodinebattery #offgridhacks #scratchbuilt #flowbattery #windturbine #zincbattery #greenhacks #3dprinting #windpower #diypower #freecad #offgrid #iodine #zinc

#til about #AppropriateTechnology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology

This feels like a perfect description of how I aspire to make all my #opensource software nowadays — hbu?

> Appropriate technology is a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous. It was originally articulated as intermediate technology by the economist (…)

"Industrial societies with “reliable” power grids are in fact the weakest and most fragile in the face of supply interruptions
[...]
an unlimited and uninterrupted power supply has enabled people in industrial societies to adopt a multitude of power dependent technologies – such as washing machines, air conditioners, refrigerators, automatic doors, or 24/7 mobile internet access – which become “normal” and central to everyday life. At the same time, alternative ways of doing things – such as washing clothes by hand, storing food without electricity, keeping cool without air-conditioning, or navigating and communicating without mobile phones – have withered away, or are withering away.

As a result, energy security is in fact higher in off-the-grid power systems and “unreliable” central power infrastructures, while industrial societies are the weakest and most fragile in the face of supply interruptions. What is generally assumed to be a proof of #energysecurity – an unlimited and uninterrupted power supply – is actually making industrial societies ever more vulnerable to supply interruptions: people increasingly lack the skills and the technology to function without a continuous power supply."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/12/keeping-some-of-the-lights-on-redefining-energy-security/

Good example of #AppropriateTechnology: most motors coming out of broken appliances can be run in reverse energy-conversion direction, i.e. if driven mechanically they generate electricity. So you can make a simplistic wind generator, pedal generator or crank generator out of most "scrap" motors out there, not to mention motors are some of the simplest devices to build out of parts - only special component in them are the magnets.

https://mastodon.world/@adamvs1/112665638963891464

In this episode, Christina talks with hacker and enthusiastic solarpunk Paweł Ngei about the power of solarpunk narratives to open our eyes to the ways in which we do things and invite us to critically examine them. Why is tech built this way? Who are we disenfranchising by not having more or different designs for things? Who are we handing over too much power over our lives to mindlessly letting them thrust their tech into our lives without us knowing how it works?

For more info about and thoughts from Paweł, you can check out his blog (alxd.org), be inspired by his podcast (podcast.tomasino.org @SolarpunkPrompts) read his short story about a disabled inventor at glider.ink, or read his review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future at his blog.

Other solarpunk media Paweł recommends are the book A Half Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys and to a great solarpunk engineering wiki: www.appropedia.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMcperL3U8

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #SolarpunkHacker #Hacker #SolarpunkTechnology #AppropriateTechnology #PawełNgei @alxd #SolarpunkNarratives #SolarpunkFiction #HopefulFutures #DIY #DIYtech #engineering #power #control

If technology wasn’t such a central aspect of solarpunk, we’d all just be hippies redux. Yet not all tech, right? Because solarpunk is also about living the good life while building a just, inclusive, and sustainable society. So, what is solarpunk’s attitude toward and relationship with tech? How do solarpunks decide what’s worth it and what’s beyond the pale? And what’s all this about appropriate technology?

#solarpunk #technology #podcast #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #appropriateTechnology #highTechHighLife #socialMedia #blockchain #bitcoin #solarpunkTechnology #steampunkTechnology #cyberpunkTechnology #cryptocurrency #scienceFictionGenre #antiCapitalism #ElectricVehicles #EVs #CarbonFootprint

https://youtu.be/v8_kizTLing

This is appropriate architecture.

Using local building materials, local builders using local techniques it is possible to build schools and orphanages in Burkina Faso that use minimal resources in their construction and use. No air con needed in 40degC temperature. No concrete in the construction. Beautiful buildings that must be a pleasure to be around. Cheap too. The only heartbreaking side is that the laterite bricks that are used are "better at stopping bullets" as they don't have a void in the middle like a concrete block does.

#AppropriateTechnology #AppropriateArchitecture

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/29/we-dont-need-air-con-how-burkina-faso-builds-schools-that-stay-cool-in-40c-heat

E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful criticizing in the 1970's already global north's excessive consumption, clutter and the rat race! #degrowth #appropriateTechnology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eo3k-jCHRo

Hello, new intro as I've moved instances!

I'm a founding Director of the non-profit @thentrythis in Cornwall, where I do #Research #OpenScience #AppropriateTechnology #DataVisualisation #CitizenScience #FreeSoftware #SciComm #PublicEngagement #OpenHardware type of things, usually for #ClimateChange #Ecology and #Environment projects. I'm a happily recovered genetics #Academic.

Will post pics of #Dogs and #Allotment stuff too.

"...a convex lens was added above the Fresnel lens in order to improve the output power of the setup and reduce the need for the use of solar trackers."

'The use of convex lens as primary concentrator for multi-junction solar cells'

https://emergent-scientist.edp-open.org/articles/emsci/full_html/2018/01/emsci180002/emsci180002.html

#Introduction that I'm never happy with (and will probably keep editing):

I joined Mastodon during the Second Great Twitter Migration of 2022, if that's what we're calling it.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic with #adhd & #anxiety ("neurospicy" is a fun word), #queer ("pan/demi-romantic" to be exact) 40s year old from #Ottawa, #Canada.

Interests include:
• #scifi (including #StarTrek ​​ & #DoctorWho ​​)
• #Linux ​​​
• #history
• #genealogy (trying to get by without paying for expensive services)
• #politics (oh noes an evil lefty socialist)
• #travel (as much as I can afford to), member of #HIHostels & #Saintlo nonprofits. Would love to travel to: Australia, New Zealand and of course visit some of my Fedi friends.
• secretary of #ARTAO: an #AppropriateTechnology non-profit building a small community in the Outaouais region of Quebec
• ....way too many special interests; there really needs to be three of me to pursue them all

Generally nice to everyone, talks in #memes, replies in GIFs & needs a job to support my #travel habit.

Prefers cats more than people. Still trying to figure out how to use my brain to make money. It'll come to me any day now...

(I'm not averse to the possibility of meeting Fedi friends, but I've had one bad experience with that already so let's try to avoid what happened there: I'm not meeting anyone in person without getting to know them first for at least 6 months. In that time, I should be able to determine whether or not personalities mesh enough.)