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== '''Introduction''' ==
== '''Introduction''' ==
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- Rearranging the room
- Rearranging the room


- Gisle started doing some [[pipeline research]]
- Gisle started doing some [[pipeline research]]🌍 (powered by DeepSeek)


===April 20. At the cabin===
===April 20. At the cabin===
We started to prompt ChatGPT to expand Solar4Rain into a tale based on Ursula K. Le Guin style. This is what we got. It realley impressed us.  
We started to prompt ChatGPT to expand Solar4Rain into a tale based on Ursula K. Le Guin style. This is what we got. It really impressed us.  


<blockquote>'''A short solarpunk novel in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin'''
Solar4Rain [[A short solarpunk novel in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin]]


''In Azura, sky and soil are not opposed. They lean toward each other, like old lovers who once hurt each other.''
[[🌍 MAPA CONCEPTUAL DEL MUNDO DE AZURA - SPANISH]]


'''I. The Seasons of the Network'''
[[🌍 CONCEPTUAL MAP OF AZURA - ENGLISH]]


There were no seasons in Azura, not in the way the old world had them. No winters or autumns, not even summers: only light and its absence; moisture and its absence; heat, and the memory of its passing.


In the North, it now rained. Real rain, not the recycled dew of the condensers, but water from the sky. No one quite knew why—perhaps the atmosphere, humiliated for centuries, was beginning to forgive them—but the clouds had returned. And with them, shadow.
[[File:Solar4Rain-map.jpg|thumb|alt=Solar4Rain-map, and AI generated image based on the project prompt and in te style of Ursula Le Guin maps|Solar4Rain-map, and IA generated image based on the project prompt and in the style of Ursula Le Guin maps]]


The South, still dry, still radiant, looked on with a mixture of pride and fear. For generations, they had been the solar heart of the Solar4Rain Network: harvesters of energy, vapor condensers, weavers of water from nothing. Now, with the North overflowing, the flow reversed: water descended, light ascended.
===May 4. Brain storming day===
Some ideas start to pop up.  


The ancients would have called it a miracle.
Gisle is suggesting to work with real pipes and connect them to the water pipe collecting the rain in Bergen.  
The engineers called it a system adjustment.
The elders of the South called it exchange.
But some whispered a forgotten word:
Dependence.


'''II. The Agreement'''
We thought to have different sizes of pipes to represent the variety of pipes we will find on our way, from Bergen to Llerena.


Amiya was no longer a child. She had completed twenty-six solar cycles, though not all were measured the same between regions. The North still considered her young. The South, which grew hard and early, called her an old woman.
===May 5. Explorations===
We also have the idea to use slime mold to get the best way to send the water from Bergen to Llerena. Need more experimenting with it.


She had been given a task that seemed simple: to supervise the redistribution of flows between Primary Trees of the South and Hydraulic Towers of the North. But the mission carried a deeper weight: to ensure that exchange did not become dominion.
Maite has been working on how to print the Miyamoto Tower in the Prusa Mini+  Here I can get the STL file but no idea how to implement it. https://origamisimulator.org/
and also on how to make a cube that can hold the small solar panels we have.


There were those who said the North had begun to demand light too regularly. That their rain-fed crops expanded beyond what was necessary. That, instead of being grateful for the South's solar energy, they accounted for it.
===May 6. Explorations===
Maybe we have a plan: To make 2 circular platforms with plants from Bergen and Llerena, to hung them on a kind of plate and use another hanging plate to install the led light on the top. We can use a central tower with both the rain and the solar cells OR to separate the towers. Spatial design.


The language had changed. They used to speak of "sharing." Now they spoke of "flow balance."
[[File:Plate-3Dmap-Llerena-solartree.jpg|thumb|alt=Plate-3Dmap-Llerena-solartree|Plate-3Dmap-Llerena-solartree]]


A technologist from the North, a wiry man named Keiran, said it plainly while they examined the optical root of a transmission tower:
[[File:Solar4Rain-setup-draft.png|600px|alt=Solar4Rain-setup-draft|Solar4Rain-setup-draft]]


"This cannot go on indefinitely. The Network needs structure. Hierarchy. It cannot be sustained on solar idealism."
===May 9. Explorations===


Amiya looked at him with a mix of pity and recognition.
We keep testing basic elements, the water pump, the drippers, etc


"The water you drink does not fall in columns. Yet it flows."
Also started with the solar panels, Gisle mounted the big one we have, I am starting to work with the small ones bought in China.


Keiran said nothing.
We also put the Prusa to work a bit. Is cool.


'''III. The Fallen Tree'''
As part of the permacomputing principles we are recycling everything we can and working with materials we have. It is surprising how many things we could have been storing :)


A Crystal Tree fell in the South. Not from technical failure, but from sabotage. No one said it aloud, but the sensors were clear: intentional filament cuts and disrupted flow. The roots showed no mechanical stress, only human interference.
Got the plexiglass, and it looks like a good idea to use it.  


There was no trial. Only a meeting.
Here some images from today:


The Solar Council, from both North and South, sat in a circle. There were no cameras or minutes. Only words.
[[File:Photo_1_2025-05-09_18-36-01.jpg|thumb|alt=Water dripping system connected with an Arduino Uno|Water dripping system connected with an Arduino Uno]]
 
[[File:Solar-panels-plexiglass.jpg|700 px|alt=Solar-panels-plexiglass-design|Solar-panels-plexiglass-design]]
"What do we do when the network becomes a trap?" asked an old woman from the South.
[[File:Photo 3 2025-05-09 18-36-02.jpg|thumb|alt=Solar panel|Solar panel]]
 
[[File:Photo 7 2025-05-09 18-36-02.jpg|150px |thumb]]
"Or when exchange becomes an imposition?" added a young man from the North, his voice trembling.
 
Amiya didn’t speak until the end. When she did, she spoke slowly, like one carving a seed into stone:
 
"A fallen Tree is more than a loss. It is a warning. We were not wrong to connect roots. But we erred in forgetting that every root, when it cannot breathe, rots."
 
'''IV. Epilogue: The Deep Light'''
 
No one ever knew who sabotaged the Tree. Perhaps it was many. Perhaps no one. Perhaps it was the system itself, a natural self-regulator responding to accumulated tension.
 
What followed was not rupture, but realignment. The flows were adjusted. Usage was reduced. Slowness was cultivated. The Network grew no more. It folded inward, like a flower that learns to close at night, not out of fear, but out of wisdom.
 
Amiya returned to the South, not as a technician, but as a caretaker. She planted a new Tree where the fallen one had stood, without a name, without a number. Just a Tree. A root of light that expected no gratitude, no calculation, no destiny.
 
Only exchange.</blockquote>

Latest revision as of 17:11, 9 May 2025

Solar4Rain

Solar4Rain Logo Permaculture SolarPunk
Solar4Rain Logo Permaculture SolarPunk

Introduction

Solar4Rain, an atmospheric PUNK symbiosys Solar4Rain is an interdisciplinary art project that employs the metaphor of the life cycle—sun and rain—as a lens to explore macroeconomic and geo-global dynamics. By examining the interplay of resources such as water and solar energy, the project critically addresses the growing tensions between resource-rich regions and the inequities perpetuated by climate change and exploitative practices. It highlights pressing issues such as neo-colonialism in renewable energy, the geopolitics of water, and the ethical challenges of global resource management. Through an engaging sci-fi narrative, the project envisions a speculative future where humanity adopts equitable, sustainable, and symbiotic relationships with nature and technology.

At its core, Solar4Rain aims to expose the paradoxes inherent in renewable energy exploitation. For example, Norwegian investments in Spanish photovoltaic farms generate significant profits but fail to contribute to local economies through taxation, while land acquisitions in Africa, Spain and Norway by external/international investors are driven by the pursuit of water resources, exacerbating existing inequalities. The project seeks to provoke reflection on these systemic imbalances and inspire audiences to question the structures that underpin global resource extraction and exchange. By presenting an alternative vision, it fosters dialogue on how these systems can be reimagined for a more equitable and sustainable future.

To achieve this, the project integrates multiple artistic strategies, including data visualization, speculative storytelling, and audience participation. Through immersive installations, visitors will encounter interactive displays that use light, sound, maps, and simulated contracts to illustrate the interconnectedness of global resource systems and their inequities. A central sci-fi narrative imagines a world where balanced resource distribution and ethical cooperation prevail, blending the principles of Solar Punk and permacomputing. The public is also invited to participate in experimental labs, where they can co-create and propose new systems of exchange, actively contributing to a shared vision of resilience and collaboration.

Daily blog

April 15

Permacomputing-1.jpg
Solarpunk rules to follow
Solarpunk rules to follow

- We decided to do everything something that can be visible

- To start this daily blog

- We went through the principles of Permacomputing and Solarpunk

- We revise all our notes

- Maite installed the microscope and software - to see how is the water here...

- Gisle started with the 3d printing

April 16

-Gisle doing some test 3D prints

-Maite made some microscope videos of Bergen water

April 17

- Rearranging the room

- Gisle started doing some pipeline research🌍 (powered by DeepSeek)

April 20. At the cabin

We started to prompt ChatGPT to expand Solar4Rain into a tale based on Ursula K. Le Guin style. This is what we got. It really impressed us.

Solar4Rain A short solarpunk novel in the spirit of Ursula K. Le Guin

🌍 MAPA CONCEPTUAL DEL MUNDO DE AZURA - SPANISH

🌍 CONCEPTUAL MAP OF AZURA - ENGLISH


Solar4Rain-map, and AI generated image based on the project prompt and in te style of Ursula Le Guin maps
Solar4Rain-map, and IA generated image based on the project prompt and in the style of Ursula Le Guin maps

May 4. Brain storming day

Some ideas start to pop up.

Gisle is suggesting to work with real pipes and connect them to the water pipe collecting the rain in Bergen.

We thought to have different sizes of pipes to represent the variety of pipes we will find on our way, from Bergen to Llerena.

May 5. Explorations

We also have the idea to use slime mold to get the best way to send the water from Bergen to Llerena. Need more experimenting with it.

Maite has been working on how to print the Miyamoto Tower in the Prusa Mini+ Here I can get the STL file but no idea how to implement it. https://origamisimulator.org/ and also on how to make a cube that can hold the small solar panels we have.

May 6. Explorations

Maybe we have a plan: To make 2 circular platforms with plants from Bergen and Llerena, to hung them on a kind of plate and use another hanging plate to install the led light on the top. We can use a central tower with both the rain and the solar cells OR to separate the towers. Spatial design.

Plate-3Dmap-Llerena-solartree
Plate-3Dmap-Llerena-solartree

Solar4Rain-setup-draft

May 9. Explorations

We keep testing basic elements, the water pump, the drippers, etc

Also started with the solar panels, Gisle mounted the big one we have, I am starting to work with the small ones bought in China.

We also put the Prusa to work a bit. Is cool.

As part of the permacomputing principles we are recycling everything we can and working with materials we have. It is surprising how many things we could have been storing :)

Got the plexiglass, and it looks like a good idea to use it.

Here some images from today:

Water dripping system connected with an Arduino Uno
Water dripping system connected with an Arduino Uno

Solar-panels-plexiglass-design

Solar panel
Solar panel
Photo 7 2025-05-09 18-36-02.jpg
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