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Welcome
Welcome to the ethics project. Things are different here from Wikipedia. Original research is allowed, there is no three revert rule (this add/delete links thing on the ethics project appears to be their first revert war), and it is inclusive meaning people are supposed to add their learning resources (with evidence) and not delete other people's contributions. Feel free to create whatever new learning resources you think would be useful for someone trying to manage a media or encyclopedia project ethically or improve existing learning resources. Collaborative edits are fine; completely changing the meaning should not be done to another's contributions - instead, create an alternative learning resource rather than do that. Others can read either or both and make up their own mind. WAS 4.250 20:29, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Are you refering to a specific edit of mine that you believe "completely chang[es] the meaning" of something? I believe my edits were to clarify a series of case studies that could be considered, at best, confusing. Salmon of Doubt 20:31, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much for this. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 20:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

 * The above is my current standard welcome message to all new participants who seem new to WikiVersity. I came back to this site to do exactly what you did at http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Ethical_Management_of_the_English_Language_Wikipedia/Case_Studies&diff=309082&oldid=309079 . Thank you for your contrubutions. Feel free to add as many new or alternative learning resources as you like. Thanks again for participating. WAS 4.250 20:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Salmon of Knowledge?
I like your name. Is it, by any chance, from an Irish myth? Donek (talk) - Go raibh mile maith agaibh 18:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Ironically, yes, though I was not aware of it. I got it from the Douglass Adams collection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salmon_of_Doubt

I grew up on all of those stories. I have forgotten them all. :( Maybe a future learning project for me. :) Too much on at the moment but I will try to contact you if I start one. Keep learning. Donek (talk) - Go raibh mile maith agaibh 18:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Re: No
What do you want to communicate with this ? I am not sure if I understand correct Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 23:41, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

 * The question was "any chance I can convince you guys to stop wasting your time and accept this compromise?" My section was already a "compromise." Moulton's MO is to take concessions and push farther. I am no longer granting concessions. Salmon of Doubt 23:43, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I am still a little confused (also because of some terms I don't know: e.g. MO) - and it seems you replaced the page with the content of Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia/Case Studies2 ? I thought you were working on bringing your POV on the forked page. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 00:09, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I see here further info: "You told me not to edit other people's "educational resources." I did not do so. They are now editing mine. I will commence editing theirs." Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 00:15, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Salmon: please take a look at Page protection templates. --JWSchmidt 15:51, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Request
Moulton is being childish about this so I reverted him here http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Ethical_Management_of_the_English_Language_Wikipedia/Case_Studies&diff=311277&oldid=311264 but since he will probably just revert that, I would like to request that you move your subsection to a page that you mark as yours. Then if he alters it, there are existing proposed policies that the custodians can use to decide how to act. I do not believe that the template physically protects the page from being edited by others. Thank you for your constructive attempts at resolving this. WAS 4.250 18:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I will not yield control over the main page to him. If he is content to move the page to an alternative title, then he can claim it the way I claimed my page under an alternative title. Salmon of Doubt 21:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Perhaps someone could move all specific cases to their own learning resource pages, and the "main" cases studies page will contain only generic data and links to the specific cases studies. They can also be subpages rather than sub-subpages and can also be linked to at the main project page. WAS 4.250 19:26, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Removal of text
Could you please communicate your thoughts before removing info, e.g.,. Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 21:27, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * My explanation for my actions is located at . Salmon of Doubt 21:30, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion
Hi, I'm finding your participation in the "Ethical management.." project a little confusing. You seem to want to retain control over the main page, as well as present your own version of events on a separate page. Perhaps if both of you could present differing representations, you could then discuss and argue over those representations? This might add value to this learning project, instead of functioning as an impasse... Cormaggio talk 13:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I am contributing to two case studies pages. One case stuidies page I contribute to, the one I'll call the "anon" one, uses no personal names. I am the sole authorized contributor to that page and it is locked. The second one I contribute to, the one I will call the "main" page, is an offensive travisty - it goes out of it's way to insult people. I maintain one section on that page, which explains why Moulton, the main author of that page, is so angry at wikipedia (because it ejected him). There is a third page which I do not contribute to. I consider it to have Moulton as it's sole authorized contributor.
 * However, I am happy to represent the conflict. I can do so quickly. Moulton, a new editor to Wikipedia with substantial experience in creating conflict in online spaces, attempted to white-wash the biographies of his coworker who is a stealth-Creationist. After getting in numerous conflicts, he was eventually forcefully ejected from Wikipedia. Moulton has not stopped trying to white-wash the biography of his friend. Now Moulton is also attempting to disrupt Wikipedia through this ethics project.
 * Moulton also has problems communicating. His reliance on cute anecdotes and verbiage that is not clear to the baseline reader diminishes the value of his contributions. His case studies, for example, are very difficult to understand without a full background understanding of the situation.
 * There, a summary. Salmon of Doubt 12:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC) ( edited per request Salmon of Doubt 13:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC) )

 * You rang? Hang on a sec, and I'll craft my lines responding to your above summonses. —Moulton 13:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * You are not welcome on this page untill such time as your cease your personal attacks, Moulton. Salmon of Doubt 13:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Do you mean to tell me (and this committee) that I am not entitled to respond to your many remarkable summonses on this page? —Moulton 13:40, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Until such time as you can do so without engaging (and repeatedly readding) in personal attacks, in editing my comments and in impersonating another editor, no, you are not. Salmon of Doubt 13:44, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * What is your evidence and reasoning to support the above allegations? I would like to cross examine the prosecutorial witness, if I may, and examine and rebut the evidence presented to support the charges against me. Do you object to affording me Due Process? —Moulton 14:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Until such time as you cease reinserting personal attacks on this page, you are no longer welcome to comment here. Any further coments on this talk page that return the removed personal attacks, edit my above comment or do anything else untoward will be reverted. Salmon of Doubt 14:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Salmon - would you enter into dialogue with Moulton if he apologised for certain comments? Could you at least indicate what comments you take offence to, and explain why? Moulton - maybe you could take a breather from here, and do some work on representing the cases? Cormaggio talk 15:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * This is one of the cases, Cormaggio, since it presents allegations and recriminations unsupported by evidence, analysis, or reasoning, in a venue where the allegator has declined to offer the alleged miscreant (that would be moi) a fair opportunity to review the charges, examine the proffered evidence, and cross-examine the witness for the persecution prosecution. I'd be curious to see his evidence and reasoning to support his above allegations and recriminations.  Wouldn't you?  I would like to cross examine the prosecutorial witness, if I may, and examine and rebut any evidence he cares to present in support of the remarkable charges against me. Do you understand his apparent objection to affording me Due Process in the venue where he has published his as-yet-unexamined recriminations? —Moulton 15:48, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Please feel free to engage in your cross, counselor, as long as you can do so without personal attacks. Do you have specific questions about your conduct that you would like me to answer? Salmon of Doubt 15:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I'd also like to point out - for the record - that no one has "sole authoris[ation]" to edit any page. Even the Page protection templates are simply a request that people respect your authorship, rather than granting the author any inalienable right over its content. Cormaggio talk 15:33, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I do not require apologies. I require that he stop readding comments I remove from my talk page that due to their pattently offensive nature. Furthermore, I assume that you or other Sysops will block Moulton if he inserts personally identifing information on my carefully maintained page. Salmon of Doubt 15:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * You haven't disclosed what specifically offends you. Perhaps you could exhibit a proposed rewrite of the discarded comments to demonstrate the difference between a version that offends you and one that does not.  —Moulton 15:48, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * No. I will delete in toto any comment that contains a personal attack on my page. If you insert personal attacks on my page, your comments will be reverted. I will not help you learn to be civil - you will have to get someone else. Salmon of Doubt 15:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I was under the impression that Wikiversity was an Online Learning Community, where everyone helps everyone else learn. Am I mistaken?  —Moulton 17:31, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes. Salmon of Doubt 17:42, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Moulton, while you seek to help others learn by use of "Action Research" (which I find, in your practice of it, indistinguishable from tit-for-tat); Salmon of Doubt seeks to help others to learn through use of acts of punishment. Attacks on him will be met with the punishment of having that edit entirely removed, rather than rewarding you by him taking the effort to rewrite it. I swear, for a Ph.D., you sure are slow. WAS 4.250 21:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * We're not using Action Research in this case, WAS, because that requires cooperation at the level of research. Salmon of Doubt and I are not engaged in research; we are engaged in lunatic drama, which demonstrates a finding from earlier research.  We are engaged in this dramatic re-enactment because most observers here are not familiar with the theory.  —Moulton 21:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Keep it within the project, please
Please use Talk:Ethical Management of the English Language Wikipedia, rather than the Colloquium to discuss the project. Starting multiple threads here, there, and everywhere might be fun, but we really don't need multiple threads here, there, and everywhere. Anyone interested in that project will naturally be watching the main talk page in any case. --SB_Johnny talk 21:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Both Moulton and Moulton's opponents wish management to stop the other's behavior. WAS 4.250 21:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Excuse me? Where have I asked anyone to stop my antagonists from behaving in the manner they have elected?  Salmon of Doubt is operating at or below Kohlberg Level 4 (having expressly declined to advance to Kohlberg Level 5).  The theoretical results presented at AAAI predicts that Kohlberg Level 4 yields lunatic social drama.  I'd rather Salmon of Doubt (and his cohorts at Wikipedia) advance to Kohlberg Level 5, but it's their God-given right to operate at whatever level of moral and ethical education they are best able to operate at.  The natural and predictable consequences of their election to operate at or below Kohlberg Level 4 are well-established in the peer-reviewed literature.  I am indebted to Salmon of Doubt for demonstrating that so ably in the past day or two.  —Moulton 22:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Ethics/Case Studies2

Further reading
 * w:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (Wikipedia's adminstrative notification board)
 * w:Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee (A request for community input on the Arbitration Comittee, the judicial body of Wikipedia)

Case 1 — An example of problematic behaviour and response
User:Foo posted a message to User:Bar's talk page stating "Hello Bar, I know that your name is George Bigginsworth, and that you live at 12 Acacia Lane, stop editing Wikipedia or I'll take this further".

User:Foo is immediately indefinitely blocked, and the edit he made is removed permanently from the database, so as to be invisible to all editors and administrators except the very few with the 'oversight' privilege.
 * Question: Is that it? Is there anything else we should do?

Case 2 — 'Privileged' information and competing priorities
A user (ProblemUser) was alleged to be an abusive sockpuppeteer. This behaviour can cause severe disruption. The central task of a wiki administrator is to maintain the smooth running of the site, in order to build the best encyclopedia possible, a task which may involving blocking or banning disruptive users.

As problems with ProblemUser began to develop, administrators asked the user to identify his alternative accounts. An administrator who had received note of the alternative accounts in confidence was concerned that he was using them in a way contrary to policy, and not in the best interest of the project. The adminstrator broke the confidence, asking for advice from several Aribters members, and the co-founder of Wikipedia. ProblemUser was eventually blocked, and this block was upheld and extended by the Arbitration Comittee

 * Question: Was it ethical, in these circumstances, to share information concerning the multiple accounts used, in order to minimise disruption, and maintain policy compliance, or should the confidence of the disclosure have been maintained?

Case 3 — Pressure Groups
Wikipedia has many editors, each with varying and overlapping interests, points of view, and friendships. They communicate though varying means: email, Wikipedia projects, off site coordination sites, or other means (example: London pubs). The groups differ greatly.

Some groups are believed to active disruptively - via tag-team edit warring. Many of these groups, in addition to tag-team warring, also contribute unarguably good content.

 * Question: What can we do to support the needs of its editors, particularly editors who are involved in conflicts over article content?

Case 4 — disruptive editors
TroublesomeEditor was considered by many editors of Wikipedia to be disruptive. A score of users requested that TroublesomeEditor agree to learn and abide by the project's fundamental polices and guidelines, agree to immediately desist from edit warring on a series of articles, agree to desist from badgering, harassment and disrupting talk pages, or canvassing for help in doing so, agree to recuse himself permanently from editing any article which represents a [conflict of interest] for him, and agree to recuse himself permanently from editing all articles related to an area of public controversy. Other than TroublesomeEditor, not a single user exonerated his actions.

TroublesomeEditor was eventually banned from the site. Over the year since his initial ban, TroublesomeEditor has spent days of his life focused on changing Wikipedia to mirror his views. In addition to Wikipedia, TroublesomeEditor was banned from multiple other online communities. Wikipedia editors have spent countless hours trying to prevent TroublesomeEditor's systematic disruption and attacks against it's various editors and offshoots.

 * Question: What can be done to turn disruptive behaviour to something more creative? How can it be done without wasting the time of good editors?

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Help talk:Resources by type

Available project boxes
How might we make this section into a sortable table? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 02:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

table
The table on this page may create a horizontal scroll for some users. Emesee 17:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Sub-categories?
So… these project boxes force pages to be in generic categories! What this means is that any page with a History userbox immediately gets thrown into the History supercategory. With hundreds of history pages, this could quickly make the History category completely unmanageable! Can you please make it so the Category: inclusion here is a subst: inclusion, instead, so that conscientious categorizers can leave the templates up but move them to relevant subcategories? Please? The Jade Knight 10:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Better yet would be to create a subst: category that puts them in Category:Unsorted Pages in History or something like that, so the rest of us know and can then go and sort them. The Jade Knight 11:00, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Give me a moment - I'm thinking! :) --McCormack 11:00, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes - I thought about this one. There are a number of ways to deal with this. It depends on the complexity with which an editor is editing, and your editing requirements are higher than the average ;-) It should be possible, if I have done these templates right, and have them on the latest version, to override the category with something more specific. --McCormack 11:02, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK - I've checked the history template, and no, I haven't updated that one yet to the latest project box version. So you can't yet override the category. I can update on request. --McCormack 11:04, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

The bigger picture
The main thing about using templates for categorisation is that they can be retrospectively updated and the updates then spread to all the pages where the templates are used. Suppose that on day 1, WV has 2 history pages. We categorise them as "history". On day 1000, WV has 2000 history pages (let's hope), and then we find it is no longer good to categorise them just as history. So we change the category to Category:Unsorted Pages in History (or something like that), insert a parser function into the template which divides them automatically depending on various criteria such as date, size, title keywords, etc, which then helps us to create a better category system for them. The problem with categories is that as the whole system evolves, the categories must get more complex, and try as you might, you can never predict the most sensible category system. Using templates rather than analogue manual text for categories allows us to get a step deeper into efficient category management because of the possibility of retrospective updating. Am I making sense? --McCormack 11:09, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Other approaches
Suppose an expert historian comes to WV and wishes to create a better history category system. The historian is free to clone many derivatives of the history template - e.g. for history by country, continent, century, topic, etc. The historian can then apply these templates to pages instead. Put it in other words, my initial attempt at subject-related project boxes was not intended to be exhaustive - quite the contrary, just a start. --McCormack 11:12, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Using subst:
Using subst: would defeat the main point, which is to enable retrospective changes to the category system to be applied site-wide. But discuss... --McCormack 11:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

My dilemma
I think I understand what you're saying, but I don't see a solution to my problem. Let me be more specific: I'm going around totally restructuring the History category system right now to a) make it more user-friendly, and b) make it more powerful (functional). We currently have literally hundreds of History categories right now (I think), and I'm going around and trying to put pages where they go in these categories. Sometimes pages go in only one, sometimes they go in several categories. When I see a page with a Project Box: History on it, I see only one category. I want to change this category, but I do not know how without removing the project box, which someone may not like. What should I do? The Jade Knight 11:37, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi. Here are some options about what to do. (1) Replace the box with a "bare category" (i.e. manual, not template) - which is not a preferred solution. (2) Create 100 history templates each with a different built-in category - possibly not an ideal solution - little too much work and organisation there! (3) Update history template with a "cat" parameter for overriding the built-in category. --McCormack 04:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Frankly, I'd really prefer making the cat element a subst: within the template itself (though the template itself wouldn't be subst:ed in, is it possible to have a normal template with a piece which is subst:? Or is that impossible with the software?)  Next to that, my preference would be option 3; least work for greatest utility… though I'm not opposed to option 1, it would kind of kick History out of the resource template club, and some editors might not like that.  The Jade Knight 05:42, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

One more issue: If the project box vanishes, so does the category. So if someone doesn't end up liking the box, then the page has to be recategorized all over again (assuming they even notice the category is gone). The Jade Knight 11:37, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes, you are correct. Two points: (1) People tend not to remove these boxes unless they know what they're doing, so the problem may not be that large. (2) If worried, surround the template with messages in the source. --McCormack 04:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

 * An infrequent minor headache is still a minor headache, even if it's an infrequent minor one. The Jade Knight 05:42, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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Difference between an article and a paper?
Can someone clarify the difference between article and paper for me? I'm assuming the latter is more formal and traditionally academic? — Sam Wilson ( Talk • Contribs ) … 08:02, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

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Textbook

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Oppose merge. It can be listed in the categories of Both of them, but of course it is basicaly Life science.--Juan 05:20, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Agree with merge. Topic:Botany could be a department of this school, with sections on taxonomy, etc. Trinity507 01:06, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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Aims
Anyway, I think some of the aims are allready fullfilled in Bloom Clock, so you might use their data.--Juan 05:22, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

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Merging
I would recomend to merge Silviculture to Forestry as it is nearly the same.--Juan 05:26, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support; right now, it's better to get everyone working together. The Jade Knight (d'viser) 21:22, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support merge; they both look pretty much the same to me (though Silviculture is considerably emptier). Makes sense to have everyone working on the same project. Trinity507 20:08, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

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Wikiversity:Tame audience

A tame audience or tame community is a group of course participants or wiki editors which you bring yourself to Wikiversity as the coordinator of a course or other resource. It is like bringing your own food and drink to a party. The word "tame" is used to distinguish from "wild" and expresses the idea that the audience or community is a planned rather than a free or coincidental association.

Most commonly, a tame audience is the class of a teacher or educator. The teacher or educator coordinates (and perhaps contributes) to the resource, while the tame community, acting under real-world instructions from their teacher, engage in various kinds of collaborative editing and/or consumption of the resource.

Resources with tame audiences are the most common and most successful kinds of collaboratively created resources on Wikiversity.

Distinguish from:
 * wild audiences
 * insider audiences
 * passive audiences

Terminology
There is a |discussion of proper terminology for the "tame community" phenomenon.

General characteristics
Tame communities tend to...
 * 1) edit profusely.
 * 2) edit chaotically.
 * 3) edit short-term only and leave.

The above can't really be changed. Tame audiences usually only need course credits immediately related to their real-world learning and are here because their teacher required them to be here. They may enjoy their time here and use it productively, but they are not here for the long-term. Retaining these people long-term isn't really an option. However if they are well-coordinated by their teacher, their brief and profuse editing sprees can leave behind excellent learning resources. The best results are obtained by experienced coordinators who have brought their classes here regularly.

Tame audiences also tend to run into editing difficulties and may need a high level of assistance. This is because they have to move from zero wiki-knowledge to producing a complete piece of work for their teacher within a very short space of time. Image copyright violations and almost vandal-like first edits during their initial panicked fumbling with the system are common. Experienced editors can help by recognizing these kinds of editor and addressing their particular needs. It can help to know who the course coordinator is.

Common misperceptions
Tame communities skew statistics. For example, in March 2008, the usual 10-20 or so "very active Wikiversity editors" in the Wikimedia Foundation's official statistics suddenly shot to well over 100 for a few weeks, and "recent changes" went so wild that patrollers could no longer see what was happening. The cause was one single tame community involved with one resource.

Uninvolved editors who aren't aware of different community types may confuse tame communities with wild communities. "Hey - where did you get all those students from? I haven't got any!" Well, if you bring your own community, it's guaranteed. Some editors aren't aware that that a tame community is involved.

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Airgun design

This article is about making a low-cost compressed air, lethal force airgun. It has been taken from my website.

Overview
A design for a compressed air, lethal force airgun. The airgun is a low-cost weapon capable of being used in hunting (thus being precise and thus scoped) and pest control. Besides being inexpensive, the design is also focused on being highly durable, more self-sustaining (bullets may be made on-site) and totally emissionless (unlike regular rifles based on the combustion of chemical primers). It is intended to assist people in the developing world (e.g. communities that still actively hunt) to increase their lifestandards or cope with the present deteriorating economic conditions they may be seeing.

Design
Possibilities to design the airgun:
 * 1) from the Barnes Pneumatics Victory Class 32 Pistol/ McAirrow K1/ IMI Israeli Pilot Survival rifle
 * 2) from the personal defense weapon designs as the FN PS 90 TR or Magpul PRD-C/Barnes Woodsman design
 * 3) from the design used with compressed air nailguns. This may allow the design to be made in a smaller package, yet may be more inaccurate over long range and less sturdy. Nailguns may also allow the implementation of syringes with sedating agents instead of bullets (see the Needlegun-article), which can sedate the target instead of killing it.

TDR design
The TDR-design would be made by 2 superimposed cylinders, where next to the cylinders a retractable stock is placed. The retractable stock is borrowed from the IMI Israeli Pilot Survival rifle-design, and the superimposed cylinders from Barnes Pneumatics Victory Class 32 Pistol. In addition, a scope would be mounted on the most above cylinder, either on directly on top of it or to the left side of it (similar to the P90-scope mounting). The scope to be used would be a relatively high magnification/low-cost scope. Either a pocket scope (which may be removable) or a fluidlens may be used.

The Take-Down-Rifle design may feature best potential for hunters (easily to take apart) yet it is not certain on whether its easy to make DIY and whether the air tanks are big enough for high power with this design. Also, not sure on whether it allows long-distance shooting.

Barnes Woodsman design
The FN PS90 TR/Barnes Woodsman, this airgun design may be toughter and better allow long-distance shooting, yet less practical for other uses (self-defence from animals, ...). Also, as it is so large, it should atleast be possible to fire 3-round bursts at high power, else it seems that it would offer less value for money. Finally, not sure on whether it may be easily made diy (the wood carving seems hard)

 * it has a large container in which all necessary components can be put (3 containers; knowing the compressed air container, the bullet container (led .50 cal bullets), and semi- or fully automatic fire system)
 * a cheap pocket scope may be used as a lens on the rail
 * the weapon may use a bullpup design
 * the handle, although technically complicated, may be diy-produced by wood carving it

Needlegun
This design is based on the coil-nailgun design linked above and is based around the coilgun technique. Usable designs on which the flechette gun can be based are available at coilgun.ru. The design has several extra benefits. It is not meant as a true finishing weapon like a handgun, because obviously the lethality is by far not enough. Instead, the weapon would be a less-lethal weapon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less-lethal_weapon ) which can be carried all the time. The main intent is for self-defense and hunting. For this, sedatives (self-defense)can be inserted or lethal poisons as curare (hunting). At this time, the system would be the lowest cost, non-lethal weapon with almost no risk of death for the target (rubber bullets and even tasers can cause unintentional deaths due to the impact or cardiac arrest). For the darts, needle/syringe-like ones should be used (to reduce the severeness of the wounds). Darts like those used in blowpipes and compressed air rifles in zoos (to sedate the animals) can be used. One of my inspirations have also been old hunting communities. The Penan use a small needle they craft themselves to sedate wildlife with their blowpipe in tall trees. A form of this dart could be used. To reduce needle cost, the needle may be made perhaps yourself from metal or wood (in the latter case, some steel will need to be added to allow the magnets to propel the dart).

Benefits

 * it may be produced diy, at (relative) low price

PS: In addition, the barrel may be rifled with polygonal grooves, which may facilitate production and make the gun even cheaper.

Advantages
A compressed air gun has following advantages over regular weapons operating on a chemical combustion:

More environmentally sane, as no combustions result from the weapon and less polluting materials are used (eg plastics for casings, ...)
 * Financial savings when using these weapons. Unlike weapons operating via a chemical combustion, compressed air weapons work with non-cased bullets. The difference in price between commercial cased bullets and non-cased bullets is 2-9 times greater, thus allowing vast savings in the long run.
 * Less kickback with each shot
 * Less noise and no muzzle flash with each shot, as no explosion occurs. This allows farmers and hunters to kill more prey as they are no longer alerted by the shots.
 * Less weight per bullet, as there is no casing and cartridge primer.
 * Possibility to self-create the bullets (being little more than small led balls), hereby increasing the farmers/hunters and/or their communities they live in to become more self-sustainable and self-sufficient. (please note that refilling the PCP air tanks can be easily done by air compressors or by hand pump, thus not eliminating the self-sufficiency advantage of being able to self-create the bullets)

As clearly described, these advantages would primarily focus on being more economic, and environmental. Due to this, it is clear that it is ideally suited for humanitarian purposes (communities that still hunt). This as their economic costs for these people are decreased in the long run and as they regain a better hunting rifle (especially in countries as Mali, where old rifles are still used for hunting (muskets, despite the risks of self-injury).

Users
Given that the design is targeted especially for the developing world, weapons manufacturers with humanitarian interest or manufacturers that work together with humanitarian organisations should be taken into account. Given the increased interest in humanitarian relief (the 2015 Millenium Goals are now fully being targeted by organisations worldwide), finding customers for the model should be heavily simplified. Humanitarian relief organisations may use this rifle design within closed ethnic communities in various parts of the world. A good place to start are the 'Millenium Villages', being undertaken by the UN and which incorporate a high number of potential customers/organisations. Other places to start looking for gun manufacturers with humanitarian interest (hunting communities) are Survival International and the International alliance of indiginous and tribal peoples of tropical forests.

Cooperation
A specific focus is to be made to manufacturers of air guns.These include Quakenbush, SamYang, Sumatra, ShinSung, ... Specificaly manufacturers with environmental interest/views should be made into account.

Links
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/
 * Millenium Villages

More information
http://www.glbarnes.com/catalog.html http://www.hegmans.de/theo/toys.htm http://survival.com/IVB/lofiversion/index.php?t6415.html http://airgundevelopment.com/modern.html http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/images/1180-web.jpg http://www.imre.a-star.edu.sg/liquidlens/default.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescopic_sight#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Telescopic_sight#Vintage_rifle_scopes
 * Design 1
 * Barnes Pneumatics Victory Class 32 Pistol
 * Theo Hegmans' K1
 * Israeli AR-7 (Pilot Survival Rifle)
 * MPR airgun
 * Mag-Air 1180
 * IMRE fluidlens
 * Alternative to a fluid lens: a DIY non-refractory telescopic sight. The scope should be as low-cost as possible, and offer upto 20X magnification. Also, magnification should be settable (ie by rotating more lenses into the scope), aswell as the range (inclination). Finally, it may be made using less expensive materials (ie plastic tubes, ...) but cradle-to-cradle materials are nonetheless preferred. see

http://www.glbarnes.com/catalog.html (see at "Woodsman") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_P90 (p90)
 * Design 2

 * The FN 303 and Variable Velocity Weapon System Variable Velocity Weapon System may feature some intresting compressed air innovations and are able to shoot a variety of ammunition to incapacitate a target. Perhaps wax/glycol/latex ammo may also be fired from the current designs, fuel/air (hydrogen/air) mixture can be incorporated. Variable bullet velocity firing is also intresting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_defense_weapon
 * Personal defense weapon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle_barrel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_rifling
 * Gun rifling (polygonal rifling)

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Palin-Sahara/dp/B000E0OE30
 * Michael Palin's Sahara; documentary discribing Malinese farmers still using muskets

When stationary versions are employed, the system can be linked with a [w:Open_source_hardware#Home_automation]] system (to centralise all village-systems at a central point/terminal).
 * Low-cost automatic targeting can be implemented to make but a few stationary guns to keep villages secure from dangerous animals. Examples are villages in South-Africa and South-East Asia where eg elephants, wild dogs, and tigers frequently attack villages. See Animal conflicts, and animal conflicts 2, ...

Air gun manufacturers, producing weapons used for hunting: http://www.quackenbushairguns.com http://www.pyramydair.com/cgi-bin/show.pl?cmd_rifles=show_guns_manufacturer&Manufacturer=SamYang http://www.pyramydair.com/cgi-bin/show.pl?cmd_rifles=show_guns_manufacturer&Manufacturer=Sumatra http://www.pyramydair.com/cgi-bin/show.pl?cmd_rifles=show_guns_manufacturer&Manufacturer=ShinSung
 * Gun manufacturers working with humanitarian organisations in indiginous hunter communities

http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/ http://www.survival-international.org/ http://www.international-alliance.org/
 * Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
 * Survival International
 * International alliance of indiginous and tribal peoples of tropical forests

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Domestic house food production system

This article is about making a food production system for domestic houses. It has been taken from my website.

Why is this needed?
At the moment, environmental pollution trough agriculture (eg by pesticides, nutrient wash-outs, GHG-emissions) is of a major concern to everyone on earth. As such, the governments of many countries around the world are looking into new ways on how this matter can be addressed. In addition, a lot of organizations and companies are trying to create and/or figure out systems on how the matter can be solved. Vertical farming, which is being concretely worked out by Prof. Despommier might prove one of the answers to phase out agricultural pollution, as well as food security, and in cooperation with other technology (for staple crop production) may be rigid enough to completely alter the way how we produce food. However, it is obvious that the Vertical Farm alone will not be enough to make a viable alternative for traditional agriculture. This as it is obvious that more and different crops will need to be grown, including financially unattractive staple crops (hereby eliminating the possibility of growing it in the Vertical Farm).

Overview
As such, I myself have been working on a system to produce the staple crops in domestic homes, hereby allowing financially unattractive crops to be grown by the consumer himself, retaining most environmental advantages also present in the Vertical Farm aswell as giving the consumer some other benefits. As such, my system could be used in conjunction to mr. Despommier's Vertical Farms. In addition to domestic homes, the system might also be integrated into campers and (large) vessels that make long travels (eg container vessels, bulkstorage vessels, roro-ships, aircraft carriers (eg USS Nimitz/Truman, Kitty Hawk and other CV-class ships), large hospital ships as the 'Oswaldo Cruz', ...). Practical examples have already been given by eg the "geWOONboot-team" (see link below). The latter would however not be the primary target group.

Advantages
The main advantages of my system are:
 * despite being less cost-effective than the Vertical Farm in terms of financial profits, it might be still cheaper to grow these crops than simply buying it from the supermarket (in the long run)
 * it would give the consumer more self sufficiency, being helpful in certain situations
 * it would make some rooms in the house more appealing
 * the plants may be used to allow natural ventilation and cooling, ... (see log id's-model home)
 * it would filter out several toxic gases, which are always present within the house because of its presence in construction materials and from the outside (road transport, energy generation)

Any downsides to normally present in regular agriculture (physical work, ...) is completely eliminated trough good plant setup (e.g. by permaculture/agro-ecosystem approaches), a more industrial approach (e.g. using abiotic substrates; as too present in the approach followed by Koppert Cress), automation of systems, low-cost systems and increased efficiency systems (eg as seen in the solar gardening/intensive farming methods of Leander and Gretchen Poisson), ... My system is similar to the one used by BioTecture in their 'Earth Ships' yet should be more easily to implement (being set-up as a assembly kit). In set-up, it would be much similar to the Integral Urban House-approach by the Farralones Institute.

The set-up
Firstly, focus will go on whether regular greenhouses may be used (eg in penthouse-flats, ...). If so, soy may be grown which allows a variety of foods (tofu/seitan/natto/tempeh/...). It should then be researched whether

 * enough light is present in the area/flat itself
 * what the surface area needs to be for the soy to feed the people
 * how much energy is to be used

Depending on the outcome, other cultivation means/crops may be used (see below) or a partial system may be worked out (eg with a small greenhouse on top of the house in which only certain, non-staple crops can be grown (supplementary crops for additional nutrition, ...). Perhaps that some techniques for directing light (eg Parans-system) may be used for lower food-production rooms. Examples are available from Log Id, Biotecture, Raymond Ip's vertical farm design, ... If not possible, mushroom growing (and perhaps algae) can be used in conjunction with extra crops to attain a full meal (mineral requirements per day, ...). The algae and mushrooms to be used are to be probably the same as used in meat replacements (valess and quorn); if not enough in minerals/calories, ..., several type of (less known) mushrooms may be required. Shii-take mushrooms have been described in the anti-aging plan as supercharger-foods, yet may still lack in nutrients (other mushrooms will need to be found).

Another possibility is the set-up of a aquatic system. This may allow fish-growing (source of selenium), aswell as nori/kombu (source of vitamin B6 and calcium) and other supercharger-foods. Saline crops are well combinable in a aquatic system, where it may be combined with fish-growing (in aquaculture). A practical example to this is the project undertaken by the Belgian "Provinicaal Proefcentrum voor de Groenteteelt" which is mixing a system of tilapia-fish cultivation with tomato growing (conducted at the Improvement Centre in Bleiswijk). Another practical example is available from the Integral Urban House. Here fish and crustaceans are grown in houses. The system is designed by Sterling Bunnell and includes raising native water organisms such as Sacramento blackfish, rainbow trout, and Pacifasticus (a genus of crayfish that can grow to lobster size). The pond is also stuffed with daphnia and algae and Bunnell's "livestock" feeds on worms and bees raised by Integral Urban House staffers. The worms are grown in sawdust-covered trays mounted below IUH chicken cages to catch the birds' droppings. (The worms thus serve as both fish food and "workers" that speed the production of compost from the chicken manure. At present, Bunnell is also installing a biological filtration system designed to remove growth-inhibiting wastes (produced by the fish) from the pond's water. The system is stunningly simple: It's nothing more than a bed of oyster shells—coated with bacteria that feed upon (and filter out) impurities in the water—through which the body of water's effluent is passed. If it works, the filtering system should significantly increase the yield (by weight) of fish from the small pond.

Finally, the cultivation of single cellular organisms (eg in bioreactors, ...) may also be a possibility. Brewers yeast (a supercharger-food), which is rich in thiamin, folacin, ... can be set-up here. Perhaps that certain yeast-strains may offer even higher nutrition-values.

The extra nutrients may be derived from extra crops that improve nutrient absorption, fix Anemia and/or supply nutrients themselves; besides being easy to grow (low light requirements, abundant growth, ...). These include foremost Spirulina platensis (a small aquarium is required therefore), and Yellow Gentian (Gentiana lutea). In addition, Siberian Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus), Armoracia rusticana and Urtica dioica may be used. Finally, citrus aurantium may be used occasionally to allow people to implement trainingschedules to grow more muscle/become fitter (when combined with a protein-rich/carbohydrate-poor diet). It can also be used to allow people to change their activity level/metabolism gradually. PS: aldough ephedra might also be used for this latter, citrus aurantium is a far better/safer alternative, allowing increased lypolyse, thermogenese, increased muscle-formation/performance and decreased anxiety/heart problems

Other crops
Further crops that may be used and which need to looked into are:

Angelica sinensis, Equisetum arvense, Medicago sativa, Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), Maca (Lepidum meyenii), Petroselinum crispum, Rubus idaeus, Rosa canina, Taraxacum officinalis, Trigonella foenum graecum.

Guarana and Kombucha may finally also be made into drinks and can be used as additif (though not on its own).

Finally, the biggest addition of the system would be its nutrient recycling; this would be done by compostation (composting loo, bioreactor and specialised organisms).

Advanced cooking techniques
The system does not foresee the use of cooking oils or fats. This not only makes the food healthier, but as oils are always have a limited storage/shelf life, it also makes the food production system to be more efficient. Instead of using oils/butter or fats to cook, techniques and cooking utensils that do not require oil are to be used. Examples for these are boiling, steaming, ... (e.g. trough rice cooker or in a pot over a plain fire, food steamer). Utensils as steamers finally also allow all nutrients to be consumed as they can catch all the water vapour that normally disappears (hereby making sure that nutrient deficiency is less likely (if the diet/crops are selected correctly).

Recycling system
The system is to depend on heavily on nutrient recycling (to make sure the nutrients remain in the system). This is done by compost toilets and or combined with other composting techniques (regular composting, vermicomposting, mushroom composting or Bokashi composting). All latter composting techniques allow the composting system part to take up less space and may be more efficient. However, Bokashi and mushroom compsting may only be applied with easy decomposable material (thus no bones, or fish/meat). As such, they will only be used in conjunction with the composting toilet/regular composting system to reduce the strain on the main composting system. Seperating the manure may be applied herefore (see links below for more detailed information about the systems).

Regrowing vegetables
Home food regrowing means regenerating everyday vegetables, that regrow using only water, instead of throwing them away, as residues.

This includes:

 * Basil
 * Cabbage
 * Carrots
 * Celery
 * Green onions
 * Garlic cloves
 * Lettuce
 * Romaine lettuce
 * Onion.

Cooperation
Possible cooperation for the system can be had from BioTecture, and a number of other organisations with similar projects (eg Zonneterp, Raymond Kurzweil's organisation "Ray and Terry's; see http://www.kurzweiltech.com/ktiflash.html, ...).

Images

 * https://archive.is/20130703173151/www.appropedia.org/File:Domestic_food_production_system.JPG
 * https://archive.is/20130703175233/www.appropedia.org/File:Domestic_food_production_using_ponds.JPG
 * https://archive.is/20130703165136/www.appropedia.org/File:Floating_city_food_production_system.png

More information
General room orientation in house construction-document http://verticalfarm.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthship http://www.earthship.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14 http://web.archive.org/web/20070712161323/http://www.verticalfarm.com/images/design/ip/Waimond_Ip.pdf http://www.gewoonboot.nl/totalframeset.htm http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/faculty_projects/terri/ds/LogID_BWG_Building.PDF http://www.wolvertonenvironmental.com/ http://www.spaceflight.esa.int/users/index.cfm?act=default.page&level=11&page=783 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_substitutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochemical_engineering#The_bioreactor http://ecls.esa.int/ecls/?p=melissa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicompost http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/3768825/Main/3768324/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Organic-feriliser-from-kitchen-refuse/ http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/06/bokashi_compost_1.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_cooker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_steamer http://www.koppertcress.com/index.php?PageID=970 http://www.koppertcress.nl/images/private/Verpakkingen_UK.pdf http://www.west-vlaanderen.be/upload/povlt/PDF/PERS%20en%20NIEUWS/2007/studiedag-aquacultuur/8_zilteteelten.pdf http://www.improvementcentre.com/english/Frameset%20Afdelingen.htm http://www.motherearthnews.com/Green-Homes/1976-11-01/The-Integral-Urban-House.aspx?page=2 Solar Gardening: Growing Vegetables Year-Round the American Intensive Way by Leandre Poisson and Gretchen Vogel Poisson (see http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Gardening-Vegetables-Year-Round-Independent/dp/0930031695) http://www.lifepositive.com/body/holistic-recipes/recipes.html http://www.cfamilyresources.com/products/books/solar_gardening.htm This heat store can be used to heat the greenhouse-part of the food system (if this is to be used/possible), or (eg with the ships mentioned), heat other rooms used in the food production system and/or structures themselves http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=99374&sid=fe9009cedff17d83534b3d9d6dae4a29 http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/general-chitchat/its-not-easy-being-green_5930.html http://forum.caithness.org/archive/index.php/t-22978.html http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/general-chitchat/its-not-easy-being-green_5930.html#post83959 http://forum.caithness.org/archive/index.php/t-22978.html
 * The alignment of house and food system can be determined with info from following document:
 * My Extra info on food consumption-article gives some general info on setting up a sustainable eating pattern
 * Vertical farming explained
 * How to make your own low-tech vertical farm
 * Vertical Farm-project by Mr. Despommier
 * BioTecture's Earth Ships (provides an impression for my altered system)
 * Raymond Ip's Vertical farm design (see also my general model on room orientation for more info)
 * geWOONboot-team
 * Log Id's plant-home
 * Dennis McClung's garden pool, this appearantly uses a similar system that recycles chicken feces into duckweed which is then eaten by Tilapia fish.
 * Aquaculture on board of a ship proposed by Innovatie Netwerk
 * Companies to aid in set up food production system
 * Meat analogues as example for primary crop
 * Recyling system
 * Composting toilet (regular composting toilet)
 * Vermicomposting toilet (composting toilet combined with vermicomposting)
 * Bioreactors to create more efficient nutrient recycling system
 * Regular composting
 * Vermicomposting
 * Mushroom composting (perhaps usable for composting the vegatble compost). May be especially useful if mushrooms (eg Shii-take) are to be grown within the system. Perhaps not sturdy enough dough (easy risk at failure system) to use.
 * Bokashi recycling system (makes instant compost tea; very efficient)
 * Rice cookers and food steamers
 * Koppert Cress abiotic substrate growing for plants
 * Usable saline crops for aquatic system
 * Improvement Centre Bleiswijk conducting tomato/tilapia growing (Proeftuin Aquacultuur’)
 * Integral Urban House' Urban Gardening. The systems noted are stated to be able to be integrated into small buildings. May also be used to decrease work to 15mins
 * Other books on decreasing costs and making the system more efficient:
 * City People's Book of Raising Food by Helga Olkowski
 * Additional crops that can be used to substitite the diet
 * Leander and Gretchen Poisson's increased efficiency/low-cost gardening
 * The time Saving Garden by Reader's Digest
 * Other cost-decreasing solar techniques (diy heat store), portraied and build in practice by the New House Farm's "It's not easy being green"-team
 * Document with extra info on food production and how to set-up the diets for the users of the system

http://www.zonneterp.nl/english/index_uk.html
 * Zonneterp
 * Cellophane house

 * Recommended reading to understand some proposals
 * "The Anti-Aging Plan: Strategies and Recipes for extending your Healthy years by Lisa and Roy Walford", in particular chapter 9 (superchargers) and appendix B (p291).
 * "The Okinawa-program: Learn the secrets to healthy longevity by Willcox, Willcox and Suzuki" (in particular chapter 5 and 6 about special herbs and foods used in the orient/Okinawa)
 * "Eat to live by Joel Fuhrman"
 * "Superfoods and/or superfoods healthstyle by Stephen G Pratt and Cathy Matthews" (for other general info on which the foods are to be chosen, depending on contents). Perhaps that
 * "The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health" by T. Colin Campbell and The Super Foods book by Kristin Gerstley may also be worthwhile to read, yet they may not be necessairy to understand how I would set-up the system.

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Compressed air kit car

This article is about making a low-cost compressed air kit car.

Objective
To lower the price of new vehicles for the poor and to offer additional advantages on the vehicles performance and environmental impact.

Means

 * To cooperate with a kit car manufacturer to produce a new kit car (Ford M151A2 MUTT) with a alternative (compressed air) engine.

 * To cooperate with a kit car manufacturer to also produce cheap conversion kits (to increase ground clearance and/or convert to a compressed air engine) for the most commonly available cars in the developing world (with particular focus to NorthWest to Central Africa, and perhaps also South-East Asia)

 * To open source the (modified) M151A2 blueprints (similar to the c,mm,n-project of the Dutch Universities of Eindhoven, Twente and Delft)

Note
At the moment, cheap cars are being supplied to West Africa via the harbour of Cotonou (Benin), aswell as some other badly regulated harbours. The used, worn-out cars these ports bring in are however not intented of dealing with the local road conditions (being primarily French suburban cars as the Peugeot 205, Renault 4, ...) and are often in such degraded condition that the car's exhaust fumes are a lot more polluting than which would be normally the case (a result of their damaged/unmaintained engines that are no longer capable of regulating the fuel combustion accurately). In SE Asia, similar problems exist and relatively polluting vehicles as the tuk-tuk may be altered.

Aldough these cars supplied to the African mainland are very cheap, the price of the proposed M151A2 kit car can be sold at a comparable price than these worn-off automobiles, and offer even greater savings when the cars are compared at with their full lifecycle as :

 * like all kit cars, they need to be assembled yourself (or trough a mechanic, ...) hereby having a tremendously lower price than constructed ones
 * the alternative, compressed air engine described to be used with the M151A2 kit car would decrease its operation costs heavily as compressed air is about 1/10th of the price of gasoline
 * the M151A2 car itself was, even in its heyday, fairly cheap to produce, being small and composed of little parts
 * the car's maintenance costs are way lower than any other car sold in North Africa, giving its sturdy, military-style construction

Aldough the exact price is dependant on the manufacturer, parts used, ... average price for the entire M151A2 assembly kit would be somewhere in the range of 2000€-4000€.

Besides purchasing the car by kit, the open sourcing of the plans would also enable people the possibility to self-create the car from scratch. This, might lower the price even more, as has been experienced with other cars as the locost (which attained a bottom price to build it at 150€, depending on approach). However, as only a select group of people will be able to do everything himself, the main emphasys and focus will still be put un the assembly kit.

The kit car described would also offer far better road performance than most other cars sold in Africa/the developing world (being capable of doing 50km/ph on cross-country), and make it easier to fix any problem that might occur (as the vehicle can be repared with a bare minimum of tools).

Due to the compressed air engine, no emissions would occur at any moment from the car (not even when the car's engine is coming to age). As such, all pollution from these cars would be eliminated from the road system, and along with it, all negative health consequences from these cars' exhausts. Also, aldough the technology and the engine itself are relatively new, it is well suitable for the developing world as all gas stations are standard equipped with an air compressor, required for its refueling. In addition, it may also be refueled simply via a mere electricity plug, which gives it an even greater advantage than gasoline engines in places in the world where there is not always a gas station to be found.

Given the vehicle's light weight and as it's original engine not being very powerful at its introduction neither, no losses in speed or power would result. As such, this vehicle chassis would be perfectly matched with the new, non-polluting engine. The top speeds which could be reached with this vehicle would be around 120 km/ph, making it as fast enough to match any other car in the developed world (as speed limits are generally set to 130km/ph) and even much faster than any speed which can be attained at roads in the developing world (given the road condition/traffic situation, effectively limiting speeds to 60km/ph, even at big highways).

The project described, aldough renewing as a whole, is still constructed on proven technology and companies. These include:

 * the open sourcing of the car's construction blueprints is also done by c,mm,n-project of the Dutch universities described above
 * the experience and ability of kit car manufacturers to decrease cost, has also been used by other projects as the locost (150-1500€), Jago Jeep, Deauville Canjito (8850€), ...
 * the experience of CQFD is used for the air engine and the cost of the engine is projected to be around 1000€ (as the sale price of a complete car they make, the CityCat 1, is only around 4000€)
 * the experience of Ford and the US Army, aswell as its 40 years of field usage is used

P.S. Aldough Ford/the US Army will need to make the construction plans of one of their vehicles open source they will probably comply to this, as it is in their intrest too. It would be in their intrest as the US Army also aims at heightening the economic prosperity of other countries/peoples to facilitate global peace and better relationships with other countries. This can be clearly seen with the humanitarian and environmental initiatives they have previously been involved in; respectively their hydrogen powered bus-projects at Hickam Air Force Base (Honolulu, Hawaï), hydrogen-borohydride fuel cells, use of biofuels in all their military vehicles, ... and assistance rendered at every major natural disaster in South & South East Asia, South America and Oceania (e.g. 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake, Bam Earthquake, ...). Also, as the M151A2 has been outdated and replaced by the HMMWV, the military value it might have possessed has long been vanished.

If however the original M151A2 plans, nor our modified plans can be open sourced, or if the M151A2 proves unsuitable for large scale low-cost production, their predecessors may be used, notably the M38/M38A1 or Willy's MB/Ford GWP.

Alternatives
Another type of car design could also be used, offering additional advantages over this vehicle, but with a longer production time and higher price. Also, some other designs as the biotrike, Victor Papanek's all-wheel vehicle and the red minibus apprearing in Bad Boys 2 (do not know the brand; could be Pinzgauer (4x4)) are also very useful designs (more storage capacity and passengers) and may also be used as a basis for the compressed air kit car.

Another very good design is a design combining the elements of the Original Desert Patrol Vehicle with the appearance and more regular dune buggy structure (more cube-like) of the Chenowth ALSV and Singapore Technologies Engineering Spider LSV /. Main focus points of combining the designs is a (tube-frame) roof/cage and cube-like structure of the ALSV/Spider LSV/Meyers Manx (allowing bagage storage on roof and some storage behind aswell, good window cover, while retaining simplicity of construction, low-cost DIY construction, relative high speed 4/all-wheel drive and performance.

More information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M151_MUTT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_engine http://www.mdi.lu/fra/affiche_fra.php?page=accueil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_car http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/kitcar/kitcar_details.php?156 http://www.autoindetoekomst.nl/website/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locost http://www.kitcarlinks.com/news8.htm http://www.tata.com/tata_sons/media/20030311.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuk-tuk http://www.mare.de/mare/english/pdf/mare57/mare57_cartransfer.pdf http://www.airpowered.co.uk/compressed-air-car.htm
 * M151A2 MUTT
 * Overview of the compressed air engine and present manufacturers
 * MDI/CQFD Main Site (air engine manufacturers)
 * Kit car overview and kit car manufacturers
 * Jago Jeep
 * C,mm,n-project
 * Locost-project
 * Deauville Canjito
 * Rs 1 lakh car (2000$ car), to be launched in 2008
 * The tuk-tuk
 * Worn-out cars entering North Africa via the port of Cotonou
 * Compressed air car information

title: Compressed air kit car


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DIY home electricity system

This article is about making a non-polluting, DIY home electricity generation system. It has been taken from my website.

Objective

 * To decrease the cost of home generation of electricity for the poor
 * To eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from use of gasoline powered appliances for domestic usage
 * To increase practical knowledge on the operation of home devices, electricity generation, ...
 * To increase self-sufficiency by decreasing dependance on commercial solutions for home electricity generation, ...

Means

 * To open-source the practical information BioDesign posesses on self-creation of photovoltaïc solar panels
 * To incorporate this information and the company of BioDesign as a whole to respectively the yourgreendream.com website and team.
 * To incorporate the practical knowledge of KWB and The Sietch into this BioDesign-yourgreendream.com coalition and open-source their practical know-how on how to self-create thermodynamic solar panels.
 * To incorporate further information from Instructables.com, PESwiki, Green Trust, Rebel Wolf Online, Energy Hack, Discover Circuits, the MakeZine community and other sources.
 * To allow both the yourgreendream.com team as KWB to participate in the demonstration projects BioDesign hosts in the developing world.

Note
As known, yourgreendream.com is busy describing on how to build a complete, non-polluting system for home generation of electricity from scratch (that is, from basic metal wires, transistors, and other electronic components). However, this website has not yet the information on how to self-create the PV-panels yourself, nor does this website offer any information on how to use this non-polluting electricity which would be generated could provide heatening for the domestic hot water system.

Combining the knowledge of the other companies above (BioDesign and KWB/The Sietch) to their tutorials would allow most of the energy generation system to be set up completely DIY, and would provide already some knowledge on setting up the water heating system, and give it more growth potential. To also allow the electricity system (to some extent) to also operate off-grid, some extra information on how to make a (imbedded) surge protector, a sine-wave converter, how to install flywheel energy storage, hydrogen fuel cell and/or deep-cycle batteries, ... should also be included. To complete the entire non-polluting water heatening system and make it DIY, additional information on how to create a DIY electric boiler (with hook-up to the thermodynamic panels) is needed, aswell as information on how to connect this boiler/thermodynamic panels to the additional domestic washing machinery (dishwasher, washing machine, ...).

In addition, the system is to include energy stacking in order to further heavily decrease national energy production/pollution and to decrease financial expenses for the people using this electricity generation/hot-water system. The financial savings would be realised for the system's users as electricity costs per watt are far lower at night than during the course of the day. Although this energy stacking may sound hard to accomplish, it would actually be done incredibly simply and at a very low cost.

The practical work out of this would simply be by not allowing the (non constantly essential) heavy energy consumers (dishwasher, washing machine, clothes dryer, ...) to operate untill nightfall (or when the off-peak hours have come in effect). This is done by simply loading the machines at any given moment in time and turning them "on", but by not yet actually providing power to the devices untill night has arrived (which can be done trough a plug-in timeswitch (which needs to be manually set). The machines will then only commence their operation at night and by morning all washing will be done and the machines can then simply be emptied.

As explained, by the decrease of the energy price paid/watt, the decrease in cost of the devices, the revenues of the net metering, and finally the dropped overall energy consumption, huge financial advantage can be attained for the users of this system. Also, in certain cases, the level of comfort too is increased for these people and a rather large environmental advantage is attained.

P.S.1: Note that the system is highly modular and that this allows him to switch in certain components for others (e.g. PV-panels or windmills, ...), to choose to whether to build all components diy or simply buy certain components from the commercial circuit instead to limit the work needed to be done (e.g. instead of building the PV-panels or windmills, they can just be bought, ...)

P.S.2: Rather than using printed circuit boards (PCB)'s, alternative wiring methods as wire wrap may be used, hereby eliminating the need of expensive equipment to create the PCB-boards. As an extra, wire wrap would also result in more durable devices and make them easier to repair (as the components can be more easily swapped out).

P.S.3: The timeswitch too can be build diy and doing so may (as the project develops) unlock new functions and allow the system of becoming more advanced. The extra function the diy timeswitch could deliver would be to allow the system of becoming flexible. Thus instead of turning on the highly energy consuming machines at a certain, preset time, the system itself may decide when to turn them on (at any given time when energy prices are low, and the energy grid is is delivering under-capacity). Practically, this is possible by upgrading the plug-in timeswitch and allowing it to gather the grid-situation information from the internet (through internet connection over the powerline). This feature would ensure that, as more users make use of the system, the peak load for the electricity grid does not simply jump to a later moment of day. However, atleast in the projects begin, this would definitly not be the case and thus for the moment, this feature does not need to be implemented.

P.S.4: Extra cooperation may be attained from PESN (Home Generation-section), Discover Circuits, Green Trust, EnergyHack and Rebel Wolf. Although not truly required, these websites/people may be helpful to the project by providing information for the system's users in better measuring out their private energy consumption (although a rough indication may be already attained from Howstuffworks; see below), and they can be helpful in making sure that the system can be very easily combinable with other environmental domestic systems (e.g. rainwater harvesting system, ...). Finally, for the described plug-in time switch and the creation of certain other devices as the diy-way, people in these organisations may be helpful.

P.S.5: The lighting may be set-up using (less-expensive) regular high power LED's rather than LED lamps (with imbedded electronics). The system can make use of the open-source Ledbus system. Open domotics systems are generally not used as (almost) everything would be operated by time switches and perhaps some devices able of communication with each other (without a central computer/control point). However, in certain situations (eg when the house is communal and thus very large), a central computer (preferably imbedded) can be added eg to control robotic vacuum cleaners and mobbers, security & intrusion detection systems, ...). In this situation, the system should use regular ethernet (without CAN, X10 or other purpose-specific coding language) and a (embedded) Linux Operating system.

P.S.6: The battery meter to use can be based on the open-source battery discharge meter of Christian Wendt. For the system itself a battery meter is also necessairy, especially when electrochemical cells are used for the energy storage. The battery has to be measured and recharged before the battery drains to a point where the cells begin to provide less power. This point where the recharge needs to be started can be determined using Elektor's Battery Checker. At this moment where the battery begins to no longer provide enough power, a switch is automatically flipped and the Elektor Powerloader battery recharge system starts up.

P.S.7: Aldough somewhat out of the line of the project's objectives/function (no real relation with space heating), the website may also incorporate information on how conventional (hot-water) radiators, running trough fossil fuel-burning may be altered to run on electricity. This is done by simply replacing the fossil-fuel fired heaters by electrical ones.

More information
http://www.yourgreendream.com/diy_instructions.php http://www.kwb.be/site/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nABkkK-32w http://www.thesietch.org/projects/solarthermalpanel2/index.htm http://biodesign.webeden.co.uk/ http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Home_Generation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_wrap
 * Yourgreendream.com DIY-project
 * KWB's Main site
 * KWB's technical movie on how to construct thermodynamic solar panels
 * The Sietch's thermodynamic solar panel construction (which may be cheaper)
 * BioDesign
 * Peswiki Home Generation
 * Wire wrap-technique
 * Daniel Nocera's Low-cost Hydrogen Energy Storage System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine#DIY_Wind_turbines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_protector http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_conversion http://www.extech.com/instrument/products/310_399/375475.html (plug-in time switch example)
 * DIY wind turbines
 * DIY solar panels
 * Some extra information on some of the electrical equipment used

http://home.howstuffworks.com/emergency-power2.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Energy_Consumption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_power_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_cycle_battery http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question219.htm (car2deepcycle battery) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Home_Generation http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Home_Generation:Fuel_Cell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgeneration http://www.elektor.com/magazines/2009/july-047-august/desulphater-for-car-batteries.986156.lynkx the Desulphater for Car Batteries
 * Rough indication of power consumption
 * Off-grid function (deep-cycle batteries, flywheel energy storage, hydrogen fuel cell, ...)

http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:id/category:home/keyword:water/ http://www.instructables.com/group/solarenergy/ http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Home_Generation http://www.green-trust.org/ (see Water Harvesting, ...) http://www.energyhack.com/free-alternative-energy-magazines/ http://www.makezine.com/ http://www.geekcon.org/projects http://www.rebelwolf.com/ http://www.discovercircuits.com/
 * Extra organisations able to help out/provide information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_switch http://www.instructables.com/id/Digital-timer-for-any-electrical-appliance/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Control-real-world-devices-with-your-PC/ http://www.tuxgraphics.org/electronics/200606/article06061.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_line_communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter http://www.geekcon.org/projects#SMS2Boiler
 * Plug-in timeswitch DIY improvement

 * Designing a embedded linux domotics system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiator#Conventional_radiators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_heating
 * Changing fossil-fuel fired radiators to electricity-consuming ones

http://www.dansdata.com/diyups.htm
 * Main set-up of energy storage system (if battery-based)

http://rs283.rapidshare.com/files/73843634/Elektor_Electronics_Worldwide_Magazine_November_2007.rar
 * Automated charging system for battery (Walter Trojan's Condition Trainer; mentioned in the Elektor-magazine of November 2007; Dutch edition called Elektuur)
 * Automated charging system for battery system 2 by Martin Kiel

title: DIY home electricity system


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Hydraulic tables and chairs design

This article is about making a hydraulic table/chairs. It has been taken from my website.

Objective
To decrease the unnecessairy use of energy required for heating unused spaces within the house, hereby decreasing financial expendatures and GHG-emissions.

Means
To cooperate with a company, specialized in retractable beds and other space-conserving furniture to design and market tables and chairs that are retractable into the floor via a hydraulic system. The added cost of creating a space into which each decent takes place is greater than the cost of stationary furniture. The hydraulic system adds further cost for hardware, high pressure tubes, electric service, access for service, drainage in first floor applications and protective means to prevent damage to adults, babies, animals and other contents.

Designs

 * Design 1: a round table with round seats; see the schematic on the right
 * Design 2: a basic (low) table; no seats are present, instead, dining is done on the table while sitting in seiza

Note
The hydraulic system would be imbedded into the foot of the furniture, thus doubling as a primary support aswell as retraction system.

By means of hydraulicly retractible tables and chairs, extra space can be conserved, reducing costs and GHG-emissions by decreasing the use of energy for heating the space. Also, rooms can now be used at full, and cleaning made easier. Especially in places where land is very expensive (e.g. Japan and especially its Tokio-region) this retractible furniture would be extra cost-effective.

title: Hydraulic tables and chairs design