#solarpunkscience — Public Fediverse posts
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-solar-microgrids
Innovative microgrids maintain electricity during the island’s endless power interruptions
„The town’s local environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo teamed up with researchers [...] to develop a way to connect multiple microgrids to exchange power with one another […]. The strategy, called grid orchestration, ensures that if power is knocked out on one of the installations, the others aren’t compromised. It’s what kept multiple areas in Adjuntas electrified during April’s island-wide blackout.“
“It’s not top-down: It’s not by LUMA, it’s not by the government. It has been pushed by the people”
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-solar-microgrids
Innovative microgrids maintain electricity during the island’s endless power interruptions
„The town’s local environmental nonprofit Casa Pueblo teamed up with researchers [...] to develop a way to connect multiple microgrids to exchange power with one another […]. The strategy, called grid orchestration, ensures that if power is knocked out on one of the installations, the others aren’t compromised. It’s what kept multiple areas in Adjuntas electrified during April’s island-wide blackout.“
“It’s not top-down: It’s not by LUMA, it’s not by the government. It has been pushed by the people”
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Initiatives like @SafeguardingResearch work hard to rescue #researchData that are (about to be) deleted by the Trump administration, by using a Bittorrent network where many small nodes contribute.
This is a very #solarpunk way of doing science: community-driven, decentralized & resilient #SolarpunkScience.
Some tinker projects:🎯1. Develop the most low-cost (in €, material resources, and CO2) p2p solution for data rescueing.
Maybe a #RaspberryPi + existing HDD? Reuse existing hardware. Compute costs in absolute and relative way (€ and CO2 per terabyte of data stored & shared). Is a bigger server plugged to a uni network more efficient in relative costs?
🎯2. Run a hackathon, help others to install the bittorrent clients on whatever machine they have.
🎯3 (Bonus): Build a purely solar powered, autonomous seeding node. E.g. the #LowTechMagazine went a long way in optimizing a web server that runs on solar + battery (achieving >95% uptime on a 50W solar setup)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/Imagine little autonomous, solar powered seeding nodes standing in gardens, tirelessly sharing research data whenever the sun is shining. A project that regenerates our digital commons in a sustainable, community-led way 🌱.
Please share your thoughts - is this a feasible and worthwhile project?
#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue #OpenScience #OpenData #DIY
CC @moritz_negwer @alxd @thorsi @BlumeEvolution @marieverdeil @pluralistic @lmu_osc @Lambo(edit: Updated the mock-up image with an improved, non-AI version)
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Initiatives like @SafeguardingResearch work hard to rescue #researchData that are (about to be) deleted by the Trump administration, by using a Bittorrent network where many small nodes contribute.
This is a very #solarpunk way of doing science: community-driven, decentralized & resilient #SolarpunkScience.
Some tinker projects:🎯1. Develop the most low-cost (in €, material resources, and CO2) p2p solution for data rescueing.
Maybe a #RaspberryPi + existing HDD? Reuse existing hardware. Compute costs in absolute and relative way (€ and CO2 per terabyte of data stored & shared). Is a bigger server plugged to a uni network more efficient in relative costs?
🎯2. Run a hackathon, help others to install the bittorrent clients on whatever machine they have.
🎯3 (Bonus): Build a purely solar powered, autonomous seeding node. E.g. the #LowTechMagazine went a long way in optimizing a web server that runs on solar + battery (achieving >95% uptime on a 50W solar setup)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/Imagine little autonomous, solar powered seeding nodes standing in gardens, tirelessly sharing research data whenever the sun is shining. A project that regenerates our digital commons in a sustainable, community-led way 🌱.
Please share your thoughts - is this a feasible and worthwhile project?
#SafeguardingResearch #DataRescue #OpenScience #OpenData #DIY
CC @moritz_negwer @alxd @thorsi @BlumeEvolution @marieverdeil @pluralistic @lmu_osc @Lambo(edit: Updated the mock-up image with an improved, non-AI version)