Tamera`s technology team invites you to join us for 8 days of intensive introduction to the whole project of Tamera. The week will start with 5 days of general introduction to the work and basic thoughts of Tamera, while often eating and cooking at the test field.

The concluding 3 days we will offer a more intensive view into the technology projects and the solar test field. We invited especially for this time Jürgen Kleinwächter, long term cooperation partner of Tamera, physicist and inventor of the Solar Power Village system that is the core of the tested technology of our testfield (http://www.solarpowervillage.info/). 

And we invited Horst Wagner theologian, remedial teacher and inventor working on energy processes with concentrated Oxygen and is the head of a centre for underprivileged children in Würzburg, Germany. Jürgen Kleinwächter and Horst Wagner have a close cooperation to develop decentralized energy supply systems, for a system that gives autonomy and abundance back to the people

This introduction week is not a practical workshop in Technology. It is, however, a great opportunity to get to know the technology team while getting to know Tamera in general.

The technology team has moved to the solar kitchen and started a 3 months energy autonomy experiment. We will cook and live in and around the kitchen until August, testing and modifying the equipment there. We intend to fit a new storage tank to Jürgen Kleinwächter's hot oil solar system, so that we can store solar heat to supply the kitchen with electricity and use the cooker whenever it is needed. And we are working with input from Uli Stempel on biogas refrigerators – simple refrigerators removed from caravans, which can be modified to run on biogas. We are also cooking with biogas, improving the Scheffler mirror and are already living in energy-abundance.

The more you know, the better it is for you, on the one hand – and the more responsibility you have on the other hand. Responsibility to bring autonomy to poorer people. We are living in the age of space travel – and we know how to manage the a satellite which is a closed system. We would not come to the idea that the astronauts in the space station are divided in two thirds poor and one third rich people, and that one group is doing the all the work and the others are not – they must cooperate. And what we do not realize is that we are already living on a big satellite, one that is much nicer than the technical ones, one that is covered with a fantastic biology, with the ecosphere and we are on our way to destroy it ….

Extract from Jürgen Kleinwächter´s inaugural speech (15 Min) to the C-Star Academy in Chennai (India) on February 25th 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK_dIrMzVho&feature=youtube_gdata_player

New concepts for local and as self-sufficient as possible energy supply are being developed in Tamera's TestField 1 and tested in everyday life. At the core stands Jürgen Kleinwächter's Solar Power Village technology. Energy is generated by a low-temperature Stirling engine – a technology that can be produced even under very simple conditions in subsistence economies. The question of energy storage is also well-solved in the Solar Power Village.

These innovative approaches also bring the possibility of independence when used in poor regions of the world. It is intended that representatives of peace-villages and other initiatives will accompany the construction and development of the technology from the very beginning. For this, and for further technological developments, the next construction phase of TestField 1 needs a workshop for training, research and maintenance. 

The existing single-storey, 240 m² workshop will be upgraded to a 768 m² building including usable loft space and 123 m² of balcony. The workshop has so far served as a resource for the construction of Tamera's infrastructure. It will now serve a broader function as a research and training workshop for TestField 1 and for the Global Campus. The costs for the construction step of this year including the equipement for research and eduaction will be 480.000 Euro.