Published Date 9/6/13 8:05 AM
While summer lasts we aspire to camp electrics being completely powered by solar power. Currently the kitchen, massage/meeting tent and the media/tech tent are working. We have LED lighting and can power 3 laptops and charge around 30-40 phones each day. Other structures have LED lighting running from fixed battery’s.
Hamish looking tired in the Balcombe  tech tent at the end of the day (photo Dik Ng)
Today’s observation is the tech tent has become quite boring last few days – the issue is that it simply works, the are no blown fuses, sparking wires or smocking components. The is just working laptops, phone charging and mostly working internet. This is a good thing of course, but I still have to spend my time in the space to stop people dismantling this working set-up. Here are some example bad energy’s that make this necessary:
* I would do this better, rip appart and plug to gather in a way which is likely not better and then leave everything broken and burned out
* I need this now for this very important – screening – music event – personal project – ripaprt and leave key parts missing/broken.
* Pilfering, I wont this component, its an open space, I will take it, lots of adapters and cables go missing every week.
* External saboteurs, its well documented now that most successful radical campaigns have had paid corporate spy’s, agent provocaturs and undercover police/police informers and that these roles often ambiguously overlap.
* Internal Sabotage, I hate you because you told me in public not to do something I wonted to do so, I will make something you are doing fail. Some people think these overlap with the external saboteurs…
This last one is more prevalent than you would imagine and I don’t think many people doing it actually understand that they are.
Back to a positive note, we have a working tech tent, YEHA!!! and a good crew (would like to name them here but have to ask first), Sean Peatfield