so far i've moved floor heating, hot water, and car charging entirely to solar (see chart and its alt text).

not sure there is much left to cut: especially with always-on systems like ventilation and my local network

#solarpunk

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7-day bar chart: both power drawn and power grid feed-in are getting lower (last day just started)

\o/

hope to achieve a net-positive year in kwh (not financially, winters are dark and cold here)

#solarpunk

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24-hour chart. 12 hours power drawn, 12 hours of grid feed-in

#grapheneos #openbsd #solarpunk #lifting #running

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116374996408344904

Wow; righteous and just things still happen.

#RightToRepair #SolarPunk

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Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

New account ( previously @Enora ), reposting my #solarpunk digital art. 2019-2020

Even though it's digital, this still fits in my fine art journey. Since then, I've mostly tried to reach the same quality of work but with traditional art.

#MastoArt #ecopunk

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Digital painting, tribute to the climate movement, scientists and protesters blocking construction of oil pipelines, sounding the alarm on raising temperatures. We see a crowd of people with signs, and in the background a giant hand holding a green orb. In the distance there are the silhouette of oil giant brands like chevron, shell, total. The open hand is an allegory of the will to collective action.

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Digital painting, allegory. A green fist crushing the logo of the oil corporation total. in the foreground, there is a shell logo overgrown on which stands an activist with a raised fist mirroring the will to crush these oil giants with a much greater power, as if nature was drawing power from the clouds. Digital painting inspired by woodcut poster style.

A walkman with a solar panel: pure #solarpunk energy from 1987! The written history of the device on Walkman Central is remarkably thorough.

https://walkmancentral.com/products/wm-f107

#cassette #walkman #retrocomputing

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A promotional photography of the Sony Walkman WM-F107 from 1987

A rant about electric bicycles:

* For e-bikes to be viable car replacements they need cargo-carrying and hill-climb capacity. The practicality test for an e-bike is to carry four bags of grocieries, or a child.

* The 250W and 20km/h limit for unlicensed bicycles is *far* too low. Human cyclists comfortably exceed this in both power and speed leading to e-bikes holding up traffic. When. I ride the bikeways, human-powered traffic cruises at around 35 km/h.

* The "you must pedal or the motor stops" requirement is some Calvinist bullshit.

* The perl-clutching "but the children" scare in the news about "unlicensed motorbikes" HAS to be some kind of car-industry astroturfing. From what I can see on the bikeways, commuter e-bikes and scooters are HOT items and anyone with a head can see a dent in vehicle sales coming. Users LOVE this emerging mobility sector.

* I work in an industrial area with zero public transport service. I observe large numbers of workers riding scooters in the direction of the nearest train station.

* If governments *really* want to stick to the 250w 20km/h bullshit for "bicycles" then we need URGENT legislation to create a vehicle class for say 1000W 45km/h vehicles. The Australia post electric delivery tricycles are a worked example of the practicality of this class; I don't hear *anyone* having a meltdown about "dangerous monster tricycles on our footpaths".

#MicroMobility #ebikes #solarpunk

#uxn #permacomputing #solarpunk :)