PeriodThree
07-01-2008, 08:11 AM
All Power Labs, at the Shipyard in Berkeley, is a place where people are working to create a Power Hacking culture. Jim Mason says we need to create the equivalent of a hot rod culture around alternative energy production.
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This is a cool article:
https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008070.html
(quote from article)
Power Hacker Culture Mason's goal is not necessarily to start a power company to be the Next Big Thing in alternative fuels. His primary goal is both bigger and more subversive: he wants to build a power hacker culture. The personal computer revolution and the internet boom were not the result of any one individual company, they were the result of a computer hacker culture and community that incubated scores of companies and public projects, each building on each other. The aggregated sum of companies and projects created two revolutions which changed (and still are changing) the world. Could the same be done for green energy too?
His workshop, newly named All Power Labs, hosts not just gasification, but has people growing algae for biofuel, previously did solar power, and is open to any number of other methods of generating renewable energy. They also encourage others to do their own hacking and talk about the results.
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This is a cool article:
https://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008070.html
(quote from article)
Power Hacker Culture Mason's goal is not necessarily to start a power company to be the Next Big Thing in alternative fuels. His primary goal is both bigger and more subversive: he wants to build a power hacker culture. The personal computer revolution and the internet boom were not the result of any one individual company, they were the result of a computer hacker culture and community that incubated scores of companies and public projects, each building on each other. The aggregated sum of companies and projects created two revolutions which changed (and still are changing) the world. Could the same be done for green energy too?
His workshop, newly named All Power Labs, hosts not just gasification, but has people growing algae for biofuel, previously did solar power, and is open to any number of other methods of generating renewable energy. They also encourage others to do their own hacking and talk about the results.