r/solarpunk

Hi, I am fantasizing the concept of public, free, periodically located structures that offer refuge from the extremes of climate. With worsening heat waves and bitter winters common moving forward, providing water, shade, temperature control, etc could be a matter of survival. What offerings should such a shelter provide? I want it to be in-line with the aesthetic and philosophy of solar punk so interested to hear ideas. In my view, solar punk party means constructing infrastructure for the good of people for greater sustainable alignment with their (now changing) environment. Ideally it would be powered by sustainable energy and could even serve to offer volunteer services like community courses. If we had a template for such a structure and placed them every X miles, there could be a network of these facilities serving the local community. This is a hypothetical at present, just considering ideas, thank you for inputs.

Detroit-based content creator Andy Didorosi is announcing his company is designing and building an open-source modular electric Kei truck, and he is openly calling for support from folks with specialized knowledge to help. This truck is a small utility vehicle meant to last and a step towards a future where we openly share and collaborate to build what we need for a future where we decide our technology instead of the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, John May, Marry Barra, or any other CEO pandering to their shareholders.

I came across this company altordo. They live by solar punk ideology and let you build your dream solar punk housing online and help you by listing expenses. People that agree to those expenses will get their home built and set up by their design, the solar punk way.

Sadly this is now only available for the US, but are trying to go global. We as a community might be able to get them global.

Let me know what you think of this opportunity.

It’s long, but it all comes together in what I hope a more solarpunk world would look like

I know fascists like the idiot liars at Fox News often point to renewables being supposedly harmful to the economy or supposedly harming the environment in manufacturing, however I haven’t heard anything from mainstream sources about renewables actually physically hurting individual customers.

What specific false testimonies actually would have started these rumors? I know it’s best to assume something as false when it comes from a fascist source, but I need to know the specific lies so I can fact check them properly and expose them.

Onde estão vocês?

Há algum evento que ajude na causa do Movimento Solarpunk?

Feiras geeks? Protestos? Redes sociais? Cantores? Autores? Desenhistas? Designers? Estilistas? Modistas? Arquitetos? Engenheiros? Biólogos?

Amantes do movimentos?

Canais de diy?

I have a dish style solar cooker already which is great but I'd love to do more baking outside of the house especially with increasing heat waves

>In her book, entitled Solar Politics, Oxana Timofeeva makes the argument against an extractive cosmo-logic, in which not only the resources of the Earth itself are extracted (which would amount to an extractive geo-logic), but in which the Sun and the planets in the Solar system are now taken up by the capitalist economy. The Sun itself is only another nuclear fusion reactor.
And so, today, green capitalism is also a moniker for a new form of colonialism on a cosmological scale, in which natural resources are exploited for economic gain. The once free-giving economy of the Sun is reinstated into the capitalist economy of demand and offer.
Yet, solar politics does not suggest that we should return to worshipping the Sun, nor that we continue to extract from it. Solar power should neither be placed above or below the economy as such, but rather reconceptualized in the framework of an economy of free exchange.
How is it to be done?

in cyberpunk, we have the face augmentation, usually one eye or two eyes which have fancy camera-corp made lenses with amazing technology to view things with a neon overlay showing computer generated text to show different things that are seen by the character

in steampunk, we have the steam overpowered vehicle, usually a flying ship or some kind of gadget bicycle / car which has a ton of tubes going all different parts to drive invisible engines which power multiple things in the vehicle

in biopunk, we have the synthetic / alien organism which can be either more powerful than an average human or make an average human into something much more powerful, sometimes as some kind of parasite or symbiosis

what would be a prototypical solarpunk object?

would it be the typical every day farm tool which seems to have some computer, hologram or mysterious functionality?

would it be the farm which is set in such a way that requires little to no special attention to produce crops?

what do you think ?

Just wanted to share whats happening in Germany right now because I feel like the rest of the world doesnt really know about it. We have this thing called Balkonkraftwerk which is basically a plug and play solar panel you stick on your balcony, 800W max feed in. Theres now like 3 million of these installed and the storage market is exploding because people realized they produce way more than they use during the day. The interesting part is the new regulations keep the 800W feed-in limit but panel input can go well beyond 2000W now, some systems take up to 5.000 Wp of panels, so with storage you can capture everything the panels make and use it at night. Brands are competing hard right now on capacity, cycle count, smart features. Some are doing 5kWh single units, others are modular. Its like the early days of powerwall but for apartments