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Appropriate Technology Dep. Sunseed activities June 2013
by Pako Ibáñez, Appropriate Technology Department coordinator at Sunseed. This June has been very active in Sunseed. With the summer holidays, each day we have more volunteers and the energy of the place rises. In the Appropriate Technology Department we have done many activities with high participation. For me, the main project has been to build two tables with metal estructure and a tiled surface. All the materials have been recycled from previous uses. Along two weeks, 10 people, plus Chito the supervisor engineer cat, have done the different steps to create two new tables for Sunseed, one dor the eating area in the main house (in substitution for the oldest), and the other for the outdoor area of the AT workshop, to make more comfortables our morning breaks. During the construction, we have learn how to recover iron L profiles, cutting them and cleaning up the surface rust. With them, we built the tables structures to hold the tiles. On the biomass gasification cookstoves project, the new french team Alexis and Cyril, has done several experiments. First, we have modify the KAÑA 2.0!!! design with forced air to improve the gasification. As result, we got a flame 300 celsius degrees hotter than the previous without forced air. The time of combustion has been reduced too. We tried to gasify the biomass inside a closed container and pipe the gas trough a tube to a burner. Also we prepared a simple and effective rocket stove prototype to verify how it will work been fed with the whole caña, without shredding. Motivated for Ana’s birthday, we decide make a test for a hot air oven with the big gasifier and refractory bricks. The result: 3 amazing chocolate cakes “gasified” with caña from the valley. Cooking sustainability 🙂
We have another project to be inaugurated in july: the new illumination of the compost toilet area. Solar panel, battery, charge controller, connections, led, direct current, voltaje, are expressions without mystery for Inga, Cristabel, Raviya y Clemens. We’ll post pictures in next post.
Last, to comment that this month went back to her country the more amazing person with who I have shared several month and projects here in Sunseed. Is about Irina, who left in all us a deep impression. I wish her the best in her way, and, if possible, share part of it.
You can watch all the pictures about the activities in the next albums:
Sunseed AT Junio 2013 |
Sunseed AT Mesas Junio 2013 |
Sunseed AT Gas-Bio Junio 2013 |
Sunseed Junio 2013 |
Otro proyecto está en marcha, para ser inaugurado la primera semana de Julio: la nueva iluminación solar de la letrina de compost. Panel solar, batería, controlador de carga, conexiones, diodos led, corriente continua, voltaje, son términos que han dejado de tener misterio para Inga, Cristabel, Raviya y Clemens. Fotos del evento en un próximo escrito.
Por último, mencionar que este mes se volvió a su país la persona más fantástica con la que he compartido varios meses y proyectos aquí en Sunseed. Se trata de Irina, la cual ha dejado una profunda huella en todos nosotros y a la que deseo lo mejor en su camino, y, si puede ser, que volvamos a compartir parte del mismo.
Podéis ver todas las fotos de las actividades en estos álbumes:
Sunseed AT Junio 2013 |
Sunseed AT Mesas Junio 2013 |
Sunseed AT Gas-Bio Junio 2013 |
Sunseed Junio 2013 |