Contribute

Please donate some of your time and build a solar concentrator in your community, based on designs present in this website, other website, or your own designs.

This is the best way to show the effectiveness, teach, and develop local solar concentration technology.

First hand demonstration of solar power is the best way to convince your friends, family, acquaintances, and people just walking by that local solar energy can solve many of our current problems; problems that are often considered unsolvable, such as widespread energy poverty in the world and the global economy’s wanton destruction of nature.

Though some theory might help also, there’s no replacement for seeing first hand a solar concentrator burst some wood into flames, or just cook some lunch, boil some water, make some bio-char (charcoal from wood) or steam, and contribute to your life in a general way (also making you less dependent on non-renewable energy sources).

After that the next big donation you could do is training others in your locality, or wherever you go.

You can also start some local projects to spread or develop solar concentration even further.

You could also donate some precious information and post some of your experiences and ideas here on the site thus helping and inspiring others far away that you may never even see or hear about.

Contribute material

25 August 2009
The site is based on the open source content management system Spip. Spip is designed for multi-lingual publishing and other collective work. Without getting technical Contributors to the site are made the administrator of whatever folders (sections) concern them. Within their domain they add as many articles (pages) and sub-folders as they like, and Spip takes care of putting everything together. If you are part of a team, multiple people can also work in the same folders, which is why (...)
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Technical details

25 August 2009
Technical detail and Spip Diatribe I wanted to put some technical details here, but I ended up just going on about Spip. Now I’ve forgotten what technical details might be useful to people, so don’t hesitate to ask. The beauty of Spip is it’s complete seperation of the content and the design. The content is strored in a MySQL database in the simple folders and subfolders we’re all used to. This database is interacted with through the Spip backoffice. The public site is generated not by the (...)
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General comments

18 January 2009
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