Chris wrote: >I am interested to know if anyone recommends any good >websites/articles/organizations regarding the provision of "basic" >technologies of development (like wells and electricity). > > Oddly enough, this is one of my pet projects that will be on OpenDepth.com - among other things. The schedule for that *was* the end of this month, but I had a bit of a personal upset in my life which has pushed things back. I'm pushing for a website opening of January 1st, 2006.
My late father and I had been working on various plans for practical renewable energy usage, as well as other things, and he had agreed to make them Open Content since... in our opinions (we agreed on something) the only way to make sure that these things get used was to allow people to modify the designs to their own situations, and to make these plans available at no cost. Water is something that we had also considered carefully, at least for the Caribbean region, and once I get back to Trinidad and Tobago I'll be attempting a practical system to minimize usage of water from the mains, since the water where I live is problematic. In this scenario, it won't be a well but a rain collection and purification system that uses solar power, with a draw off for heated water. I will also recommend http://www.biodesign.org.uk/ - when I returned for my father's funeral last month, I had found he had continued work and had been corresponding with Graham Knight and sharing some ideas as well. I am still going through his notes; I am fortunate that he had started working electronically, and all the documents and notes are in OpenOffice and the Gimp. There are plenty of resources. The main problem is that the practicality of putting things together and explaining why certain things are used isn't usually done properly, if at all. And the other side is that you can't teach creativity or common sense - which a lot of these things are. -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: Georgetown, Guyana [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
