My goal is to work and write with people.
However, there has to very well be a "before a project" which is simply some idea some person came up with one day.
This website exists to represent such ideas. Hopefully, projects will come from this.
So I’ve spent about a year and a half voyaging spreading solar concentration, and then about a year recovering and reflecting upon the effort.
Among my objectives was to test my philosophy and so I have done. My philosophy was put to a rigorous stress test and the weaknesses within were revealed in fractures failure.
However, there was also successes, more so I believe than failure. At least 10 people have learned the solar concentration technique I set out to diffuse, and 5 have built machines independently. The solar fire project now has a functioning website www.solarfire.org in which I’ve managed to get spip up and running, so anyone can log in and contribute material. And las but not least, the first construction guide of the Vesta, a smaller version of the Vesta, the Batant, which also contains some new techniques developed here in France.
I also managed not to die nor seriously injure myself which is notable.
Overall, I believe the plan and philosophy worked very well, and the errors I will now turn to only served to slow and tire us. A good analogy is that we decided to trail blaze in unknown environments, certain that the conventional path always leads to conventional ends, and though the progress was slow and difficult the training experience made up for lost time ... and my lost travelers fork/knife set I stole from the army ... sigh. And so, once one is comfortable with trail blazing, then one has no fear to use the conventional path where it makes sense to do so.
It is this total refusal of the conventional path, and insistence on radical solutions on all things, problems and non-problems alike, which is a mistake. We stubbornly stuck to this method, and would only compromise it only after exhaustive discussion and contemplation, so exhaustive it would itself impart at the least a radical flavour to conventional conclusion. And to this I shall turn in the next instalment in this series.