I think this depends very much on the project itself. Repair cafes are not by definition one way, or another.

For example, even tho I am not super tech-savvy, I have participated in 2 different makerspaces, in 2 different places in europe and both of these project had a very similar approach. We met weekly or bi-weekly do stuff in the workshop, and every month or so we had a repair cafe event. Some people wanted just their stuff to be fixed. Those who wanted to know more about fixing them themselfs, they were invited to attend the makerspace meetings.

Carbon Capture and Storage/Sequestration (CCS) is a topic I changed my mind about, not that long ago, including its subsets like Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Direct Air Capture (DAC), etc. Up to last year or something, I was thinking that it’s important for these kind of tech to be researched.

Now I see things differently:

• To my understanding, the only CCS tech that makes sense is the one that catches emissions at the source, the factory chimneys.

• The others that claim to suck up GHG and store them “out of sight out of mind” are highly problematic for so many reasons. They are distractions from the real issue which is phasing out fossil fuel.

A few relevant links:

Fact or fantasy? Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?

For fossil fuel corporations, keeping CDR on the agenda as a credible climate change solution is a Get Out of Jail Free card. Instead of stopping emissions, they promise to capture and bury them. Not now, but someday. As the CEO of Occidental Petroleum told a conference of her peers in 2023, “We believe that our direct capture technology is going to be the technology that helps to preserve our industry over time. This gives our industry a license to continue to operate for the 60, 70, 80 years that I think it’s going to be very much needed.”[

Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions

The car­bon capt­ure comp­any Cli­meworks on­ly capt­ur­es a fracti­on of the CO2 it promises its machines can capt­ure. The comp­any is fail­ing to car­bon off­set the em­issi­ons resulting from its operati­ons – which have grown rapidly in recent ye­ars.

More articles in the relevant community: cdr@slrpnk.net

This is wild!

It looks like this project is one of those that take into account marine life and try to have minimal impact on it.

For more on this, see section Key Environmental Issues:

MeyGen Tidal Energy Project

Good luck with this. Keep us posted

I’m a bit confused because the title claims that windfarms are habitats, and in the article itself it says:

“We’re trying to understand whether these animals are actually using the wind farms as habitat, or whether they’re being displaced by them,” says Annemiek Hermans, PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research.

Great points you made there.

I don’t know much about the bacteria that could develop in stagnant water but it certainly sounds like something to keep an eye out in relation to how this project evolves.

And I edited the title to include the no electricity part you mentionned.

Here is a very interesting story about baboons in less than 4 minutes.

Dr Robert Sapolsky and the Keekorok Baboon Troop

The following ideas are not exactly what you ask for, but maybe they are worth considering?

1. I don’t know what operating system you use, but for me old computers is how I got into linux. Linux Mint is very easy to install and to use, so it prolongs the life of perfectly good machines that are too old to be updated by proprietary software. Personally, I was doing most updates so that the laptop is as functional as possible for the longest time, and I was always doing the secuity ones. A few years back a friend gave me a 2006 laptop and it worked kind of ok with an old version of mint, it was just very slow. This one was given to another friend who didn’t have any.

2. Depending on where you live there could be a makerspace, or a relevant collective that could use them, or parts of them.

3. If they are not working anymore, you can use the parts to do crafts: jewleries, pins, fridge magnets, keychains, light fixture, wall decoration, photo frame, book holder are a few possibilities.

I find the following part to be very illuminating

Yet a million tonnes – or even the full 28 million tonnes that have been purchased to date – is negligible in terms of impact on the climate. At current emissions levels, removing a million tonnes is like undoing 13 minutes out of a full year of emissions,

Not too sure I understand what you mean. Needs a published paper first, for what?

This is about a congress. For some reason, I wouldn’t be surprised if a scientist could present early findings of their research in a scientific gathering, meaning before publishing a paper. Just to be clear, I really don’t know what are the general or specific rules in order to participate in a congress, a conference etc, so please correct me if my assumption is wrong.

Note: I don’t agree with the tone of this article, because it portrays mining companies as ok (i.e. Many mines are proactively embracing these standards). Still, I find it has interesting points, so I thought it was worth sharing

So, not only Climeworks is actually far away from achieving their own goals,

they also already sold 1/3 of the credits that

Mammoth capture plant is expected to capture from the atmosphere over the next 25 years

while

Climeworks cannot yet offset its own carbon footprint

Reality check is needed.

I don’t think that all geoengineering, in the loose sense of the term, is without merit

Just to clarify that geoengineering is something very specific, there is no loose sense to it. It’s about humans intervening on large scales on the planet in an effort to balance out what capitalists have done to the earth’s climate. Its unintended consequences are to many, on too many levels, to be predicted and this is the main problem.

The solution in relation to the climate crises is to phase out fossil fuels. Capitalists promote geoengineering because it creates new business opportunities, and in the same time it shifts the conversation away from them and what needs to be done.

I don’t agree with the take of this article. It tries to portrait the issue of geoegineering in a neutral light, like there are pros and cons to it. There are no pros.

From Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL):

Why Geoengineering is a False Solution to the Climate Crisis

Geoengineering is neither insurance to “buy time” nor any form of supplement to mitigation. Instead of chasing fantasy techno-fixes, governments should urgently prioritize real solutions to the climate crisis. This means equitably phasing out fossil fuels and supporting the many decentralized, diverse, and readily available alternatives for socially and ecologically sustainable production and consumption patterns.

The answers are out there, but one problem is that we - the people - expect that those in power will implement them, and they don’t.

So, we need imaginative solutions, in order for these fixes to be implemented.

I’m not really sure what the proper definition of a robot is tbh. Apart from that, the article does talk about sensors.

Each device would be equipped with biodegradable sensors for collecting environmental data like water pH, temperature, pollutants, and the presence of microorganisms, which could be read out after collection or by remote sensing.

Edit: I took a look in wiki and I think it tracks?

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. (…)

I could say, I do share your anxiety about what will happen in the near future. Still, personally, I don’t like doomerism because imo it restricts our collective imagination towards solutions.

Apart from that, lets keep in mind that this is an article about amphibians specifically, not about saving the planet or humans in general.

I would like to explain my downvote.

This quote is part of a stand up comedy by George Carlin that was performed many decades ago. When I saw it on yt I really liked it.

This quote here, out of context is pure doomerism.

Thank you, I can’t stop laughing!!!