How do you deal with sunlight, do you rotate the tower regularly ?

We live in a small village with a bakery and a local farmer store at walking distance from the house.

I’m working remotely in a repurposed train station. The whole station had been turned into a third space last year and quite a lot of events are happening there.

Today there was a presentation of different initiatives happening in the valley, i found two initiatives particularly interesting.

The first one is a cooperative ISP provider, I’ll change my provider to join them.

The second one is another cooperative that is installing renewable energy and offering “collective self consumption”. To simplify it: when my neighbor’s solar panels are overproducing I can buy it directly from him. The rest of the time I’m using electricity from my regular provider.

Except that in this case it’s organized in the scale of several villages.

There are a few prototypes of solar desalination system available on the lowtechlab wiki that you can try

• [ ] https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/D%C3%A9ssalinisateur_solaire/en
• [ ] https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Dessalinisateur_solaire

I got a Sofirn LT1, it’s a great lamp but my only problem is that my 3 years old keeps stealing it to read in bed so now I have to get another one.

I got an opinel one for 30€, it’s a another great bifl brand.

https://www.opinel.com/en/kitchen-knives/bread

A good way can be to keep the same amount of mandated parking minimum but allows that up to x% (30%, 50%, 90% ?) of this parking can be replaced with secured bike parking (with precise specification on what is a secured bike parking, the same way as there is specifications for a car parking spot width, length …).

This way this gives a choice, either the shop owner decide to ~save a fuckton of money on land and construction cost~ be environmentaly friendly and build bike parking instead of car parking spot, or he can still spend money on a huge parking lot if he is really against bike.

~ be sensitive to the environment and build bike parking

Get a good quality bike with standard components and you should be able to repair it easily.

As other said avoid cheap low cost bike but also very high end bike that are more likely to use proprietary parts.

For the frame the best option would be steel, if it does break you can easily weld it back with a regular welder.

Aluminum is the second best option, a bit lighter but it will fatigue, so over the years the frame will wear out slightly.

Carbon is the worst for reparability, very fragile and impossible to repair.

The MX3 is USBC

Yes, thermal solar panels would be way more appropriate.

While trying to gain a few % through the transformation process OP is not addressing the elephant in the room: PV panels turn around 20% of the sun energy into electricity, thermal panels turn around 80% of the same energy into heat, They are way more efficient.

Not at all, I just moved in a few months ago.

I did not knew the area before but when I moved back to France I looked for an area to settle around Grenoble and when I arrived there I loved the vibe and wanted to be part of it.

Hey ! This is my area ! It is truly a great region.

What !?

Until now I never considered that it would be made illegal to hang your clothes.

This is distopia material.

I’m not go worried about the load bit Zhou about vibrations.

Wind turbines vibrate, especially of you install them on turbulent airflow such as just on top of a roof. I would be worried that it would cause some long term damage to the structure.

If we want to build a stable 100% renewable energy electrical grid we need backup power station for when there is no sun or wind.

Right now coal and gas power stations are mainly used but renewables option are limited.

Hydro can help to an extent but the locations and power output are limited, battery storage help to smooth production but it’s not enough for seasonal variation.

Nuclear could work perfectly but I’m losing hope on trying to convince people that a bit of nuclear would help to each a 100% renewable energy grid.

The last option is biomass, it can be vertuous is the wood resource is well managed or terribly damaging for the environment if not.

Do I think biomass power station are needed of we want to transition.

Are you talking about

A scalable self replicating and self sustaining carbon capture technology that uses a mix of highly specialized biological processes to turn CO2 into engineering grade composite construction material, fuel and fertilizer.

?

We own the factories building the panels.

Solar cells don’t really grow on trees.

How do we call something that the majority of people can’t afford ?

A luxury

I strongly recommend to have a look on this website:

https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html#SA

You can input your location, your daily consumption, your battery capacity and the amount of panels you have.

From that the website will use a database including the weather in your area and the mountains around you to generate a report that tells statistically you how many days per month your batteries will be empty.

It’s taking into account the fact that you can have several days with no sun, the fact the in winter the sun might set behind a specific mountain …