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#hell or high water

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Banyan Tree with an attached 16th Century Terracotta Temple, Antpur, West Bengal, India

photo by Laura McPhee

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AlphaTheta Euphonia Rotary Mixer (Japan, 2024)

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Tuesday Riddell — Foxglove (gold leaf, silver leaf, gold & silver powder, pigment and paint on lacquered board, 2023)

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Human and animal power – The forgotten renewables

Globally, there is still widespread dependence on traditional forms of energy, and human and animal power still contribute a significant proportion of the energy used in the rural areas of developing countries. After biomass, they are the most important energy sources for their populations. On a global scale, the energy contributed by human and animal power is estimated to be twice that of wind power and 13% of hydro, the largest single contributor of the renewable energy sources. This paper therefore argues that human and animal power should be included in the ‘family’ of renewable energy sources of solar, wind, hydro and biomass. There are numerous opportunities to improve the efficiency (and output) of hand, foot and animal-powered equipment. Improvements in these technologies will help to reduce the drudgery and hardship of everyday life of those who do not have access to modern forms of energy.

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2012.04.054

#energy #human power #animal power #renewable energy #bicy #bicycle #cycling #budgerigar vs jet fighter

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Naoki Sasaki

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‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’

- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.

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kelscallister

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Nuevo.Tokyo™ / Japanese Gradient [For UI] / Gradient / 2024

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“Identity is an obsession, a composite of personalities, all counterfeiting each other; a faveolated ego, a resurging catacomb where the phantomesque demiurguses seek in us their reality.”

— Austin Osman Spare (via hijodelagua)

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“Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you. A ghost wandering around in search of your body, eager to possess you. We are addicted to the self we construct. Slaves to what we have done.”

— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune (via astranemus)