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).

You could also donate some precious information and post some of your experiences and ideas here on the to help and inspire others.

Contributor

5 January 2010

Contributors to the side may advertise any solar products or services they offer, free of charge.

A contribution can be anything, from experience and ideas to material.

Who is and is not a contributor is decided entirely by the discretion of the site administrators.

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Open Source Products

5 January 2010

Products listed in the products section are Open Source, which means you are free to copy them.

However, we do not demand from contributors to provide detailed drawings, as they themselves may not have such drawings and it can represent considerable amount of work to make them.

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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
Please leave any comments, ideas, suggestions...
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