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#introduction for @SocialCoop - hello, all!
I'm Kirk, an engineer researching the conversion/storage of clean energy: batteries, converting CO₂ into useful chemicals, etc. I'm from St. Louis, USA, did my PhD in UK, now living in France. I'm a lot of things but anticapitalist and antiauthoritarian are good catch-alls.
I plan to transition away from academia and start a worker-owned enterprise around these technologies, with open-source at the core. Here to learn from others and find community.
Welcome @kirk !
I did something in the area coming from the biological domain, if anything of that could be useful, just whistle! :)
Short story about it is in http://mamagrande.org/
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@edumerco Thank you, excited to read this and learn from your work!
@kirk
Same here. We need to (and are) show/ing that a solarpunk world is better for all life on Earth. :)
Chewy ideas. :D
Two projects that i helped with:
https://r-urban-wick.net/events/learn-to-build-an-anaerobic-digester
An anaerobic digester that fits inside a 20ft shipping container, powered by two PV solar panels and one solar-thermal panel.
Inputs are food waste, and outputs are fertiliser, and, tankable methane. :D
And
https://wickcuriosityshop.net/collection/plant-regulated-growing-system
Crop-growing system that gives 300% of crop-yield-per-acre, using 50% of the soil and 20% of the water.
Bonus is no weeding. :D
@BillySmith @edumerco ah, yes! Big fan of AD systems, that's rad. Would totally try one of those planter systems if I had the space at my apartment! There's a cool French org doing micro-AD here too: https://www.picojoule.org/
That looks great :D
The group that built the one over here, are a partner project of one based in Colombes.
You may also want to look at Sensorica's approach towards funding #OSHW designs.
From looking at your work, this would be of interest to you.
https://www.sensorica.co/ventures/food-and-agriculture/greens-for-good
It's a crop processing system for leafy greens like alfalfa, that allows more effective processing, so more useful protein is extracted from the crops. :D
They're always looking for other partners to work with. :D
@BillySmith yes I've seen Sensorica around, occasionally hop in their Discord - seems like a cool model. Funding for OSHW is definitely tricky, and something that my future business partner and I haven't settled on yet. Will definitely be throwing questions on this into the fedi void for feedback within the year, I hope!
@TCMuffin @SocialCoop thank you, I like getting straight to the point 
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@kirk @SocialCoop good luck man, best wishes in your projects (and your team mates too)