Low tech maxxing

I really don't know what to call this or if there is a movement for it, but I would define it as technology that is ultimately reliable not only in its function but also it's ease of operation and creation as well as it's longevity. The main example I can provide is that of the sun laser because even without the capability to produce a lens, water or crystals can be used (and crystals are long lasting). I have brain fog rn so apologies for any vagueness or I coherence. The ambient anti bacterial (?) Effects of silverware might also be an example. The problem I see with solar panels is that they have to be manufactured, too much stuff to hold onto in my opinion. This might be some kind of punk genre idk

>>35375 fuarrrk, wrong picture. how annoying

>>35375 Biomass turbines are the most economical way to do solar. >>35376 The officer lack of armor fits the theme.

>>35375 >sun laser seen hobby forge having a huge glass ball which focal point was hot enough to heat metal to smelting point. And because the focal point is above ground it hits the ground without much damage. There are several real problems with it though: cant control heat and rely on weather, invisible focal point moves with sun and anyone could accidentally put their hand in. As for antibacterial - iron has also an anti-bacterial effect, cheaper than silver at price of longterm problem with rust. Pretty cool considering iron door handles were accidentally hygienic choices with that info.

I recently found out about automatic alcohol blow torches. Seems it would be easy enough to make or repair.

>>35375 not sure what you exactly mean but that sounds like solarpunk minus "complicated production" stuff like that is rife on interesting places where poverty is. I've seen a parabolic reflector (just a large dish with reflector) used for cooking and it does work really well for cooking stuff but requires sun. it's called a "solar cooker". about most of the other stuff you can find on primitive survival books where you diy stuff like water filters. technology is a bit more complicated but it is somewhat interesting to hear if there's some stuff out there that's easily reproducible, low cost and tool requirement.

>>40927 I guess an example would be if you were on a desert island and wanted to push the boundaries with as little tech as possible. I think solar punk fits enough, thank you.

>>42074 Oh, also, there was this one resident evil game (?) that had a sun Lazer as well built by a primitive society (I think).

>>35375 >without the capability to produce a lens, water or crystals can be used buddy you're an idiot. you can use crystals but youll need to make them into lenses and thats not strictly a laser anyway but whatever, focused light weapon idk. You can diy your own lenses anyway its easier than some things and you're not focusing images here one problem with all of these hypotheticals is that no individual region has everything. If you want silverware, you either import, or you live someplace you can mine it. If you want to live someplace you can mine coal, silver, and dinner plate sized crystals, and oh I dont know maybe tin copper and iron too, you're going to be having a tough time. Even bronze age people imported tin across huge distances, and large trade networks are natural to any human civilization >>40927 I think his point is that solar panels, or for ease and obviousness lets say nice CPUs, take massive industry to make. Its kinda ridiculous to imagine a society of a thousand people making its own computers of any complexity. But certain things you can. Back to photovoltaics, I point out if you can do sun focusing you can do the boil water power generation stuff, and this generates mechanical energy which in some ways is easier to use than electrical. Of course, hopefully you have a river and can generate thus, as well. Also worth pointing out that few scenarios exist where you will be trying to survive without access to the massive industrial base of today. Even if all industry is vaporized, all around us are the tools of industrial society.

>>42080 >Also worth pointing out that few scenarios exist where you will be trying to survive without access to the massive industrial base of today. Even if all industry is vaporized, all around us are the tools of industrial society. Almost as if the whole point was to talk about a hypothetical scenario one thinks is cool, but idk tho

>>35375 uxn exists. made by a pair of sailors. no internet there. and can't have ya stuff rusting (RPi is pretty resistant according to them). https://100r.co/site/uxn.html https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html on their sites, they link stuff such as these: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Accueil https://github.com/hsoft/collapseos uxn is interesting. it's a extremely small virtual machine. it's been ported to multiple things, Nintendo DS, Nokia N900, Game Boy Advance, DOS. altho half of them incomplete in the following list, you can imagine the benefit from this. https://github.com/hundredrabbits/awesome-uxn#emulators they talk about human-size software. ya'know, all these software always being written by several or hundreds or thousands or more people. open source software, tons of contributors. browsers, we need them. but what single person is able to understand the code of firefox or chromium and work on it alone? also, browser standards i hear, are insane. and html parsing is fuarrrked because of leniency.