[ELECTRON] Space to Build a Wind Turbine

Tue Feb 25 19:11:13 GMT 2014

Hi Aran
Galgael have accomodated maker labs before they have a big workshop, 
boat builders, trainees and a great convivial space, machine shop, 
welding, carvings a cinch, with lots of folk around who I'm sure could 
be interested. They do a social evening every Thursday evening 6:30 If 
you want to check it out. Bob
Website
http://www.galgael.org/

On 25/02/2014 17:18, aran.eales at btinternet.com wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I'm a new member of the group and haven't had a chance to make it to
> one of the meetings yet but I wanted to ask your collective knowledge
> about a options for a space in Glasgow to build a wind turbine.  I
> hope this is an appropriate use of the list and apologies in advance
> if it's not.
>
> As a background I'm part of a DIY renewable energy cooperative called
> V3 Power who run courses teaching people how to build wind turbines.
> V3 are based in Nottingham but I've recently moved to Glasgow and am
> looking to run some courses up here.
>
> Building a wind turbine involves carving wood from blades, welding
> the steel mounting and fabricating a permanent magnet alternator from
> component parts and casting it in resin. To run a course we need a
> space for woodwork with sturdy benches, somewhere to do grinding and
> welding and desks for winding coils and casting the alternator.
>
> A course generally runs for 3- 5 days so we would need access to the
> space for all of that time, either over a weekend or during the week.
> We've been asked to run a course by a group of Students from
> Strathclyde University who are going to Malawi this summer to build
> similar turbines, however if there's enough interest there's the
> possibility of running a course for members of the public or for
> electron club members.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions of spaces we could use,
> apologies again if this is a misuse of the list, and feel free to get
> in touch if anybody has any questions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aran Eales ------------------ 07985727925
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Autonomous list Update
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>
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> On 22 February 2014 17:36, Bob Hamilton <bob at citystrolls.com> wrote:
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>>
>> Mon 24th February Local Food Social Support Hub Fred Paton Centre,
>> 19 Carrington St, G4 9AJ 1800 - 2000
>>
>> "LOVELY FOOD AND A REALLY FRIENDLY WELCOME"
>>
>> Feeling Isolated? Worried about Winter Bills? Affected by Welfare
>> Cuts? Want tips on how to cook on a budget? Woodlands Community
>> Garden's local food social support hub provides a friendly welcome
>> and access to a hot and healthy meal for people experiencing
>> hardship as well as access to training/volunteering opportunities.
>> No referral or voucher needed, so if you are in need of a wee
>> escape from your worries then come along.
>>
>>
>> **********
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>>
>> Mon 24th February Animal Intelligence? - Prof. Dick Byrne - Glasgow
>> Skeptics The Admiral Bar, 72a Waterloo Street 1900 - 2130
>>
>> Although many of our everyday judgements of intelligence in other
>> species can be shown to be dubious, the idea that some species have
>> developed superior intelligence is a respectable one. The tricky
>> part is measuring it! Brain size seems more 'objective' than
>> intelligence, but it too is not easy to compare across species.
>> Also, having a large brain is not necessarily a 'good thing'.
>> Despite these difficulties, there's been real progress in
>> understanding what sorts of animal have specialized in
>> intelligence, and what ecological problems have pushed their
>> evolution in that direction. But there's much less agreement about
>> what their 'higher intelligence' actually is, perhaps because it
>> can be several things. Purely quantitative differences in learning
>> and memory may be responsible for a lot of what we notice and can
>> measure. Yet human intelligence did not come from nowhere: and
>> human intelligence includes the ability to understand how things
>> work, whether those things are other people or systems of
>> inanimate objects in the world. The big challenge will be
>> discovering the precursors of this qualitative advance in other
>> species.
>>
>> Dick Byrne studies the evolution of cognition, particularly the
>> origins of distinctively human characteristics, using evidence from
>> species as diverse as great apes, elephants and domestic pigs. In
>> 1987, with three colleagues, he set up the Scottish Primate
>> Research Group, which now links 17 faculty and their research teams
>> in an informal collaboration spanning 5 Scottish universities.
>> Professor Byrne has published 1298 refereed journal articles, 64
>> invited book chapters, and edited 3 books. He was awarded the
>> British Psychology Society Book Award 1997 for his O.U.P. monograph
>> The Thinking Ape, and appointed to the fellowship of the Royal
>> Society of Edinburgh in 2002.
>>
>>
>> **********
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>>
>> Tue 25th February G.U.PalSoc Film Screening: Budrus Room 513, Boyd
>> Orr Building, University Gardens 1805 - 1955
>>
>> Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an international series of events
>> that seeks to raise awareness about Israel's apartheid policies
>> towards the Palestinians and to build support for the growing
>> Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. As part of
>> Israeli Apartheid Week we'll be screening Budrus on Tuesday 25th
>> February 2014.
>>
>> About Budrus: "Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film
>> about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites
>> local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an
>> unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by
>> Israel's Separation Barrier. Success eludes them until his
>> 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women's contingent that
>> quickly moves to the front lines. Struggling side by side, father
>> and daughter unleash an inspiring, yet little-known, movement in
>> the Occupied Palestinian Territories that is still gaining ground
>> today. In an action-filled documentary chronicling this movement
>> from its infancy, Budrus shines a light on people who choose
>> nonviolence to confront a threat." http://www.justvision.org/budrus
>> Budrus Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqYR7OkqL4
>>
>>
>> **********
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>>
>> Tue 25th February CHE public talk: Burning the planet at both ends:
>> how can we cool it? The struggle for the global commons- with
>> Justin Kenrick The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, G51
>> 3UU 1830
>>
>> What connects the torching of indigenous communities in Kenya and
>> Osborne's 'Sermon on the Pound'?
>>
>> The Kenyan government is currently torching thousands of homes of
>> indigenous Sengwer communities in the name of conservation. The
>> global clearances continue despite the fact that the poor in Kenya
>> do have lawyers - for the courts are simply ignored. Can aligning
>> communities struggles, national concern and international campaigns
>> counteract local, national and international elites attempts to
>> capture resources from those who have maintained their resources
>> for centuries? Can the independence debate enable us to focus on,
>> rather than distract us from, responding to the state of the world?
>> How?
>>
>> Justin Kenrick received a BA in Social Anthropology at Cambridge
>> and his PhD in Social Anthropology at Edinburgh. He was a lecturer
>> in social anthropology at Glasgow from 2001 to 2009. He left to
>> work with the Forest Peoples Programme to support Central African
>> Forest Peoples' rights, and to work on parallel processes of
>> community resilience in Scotland ( www.pedal-porty.org.uk and
>> www.holyrood350.org).
>>
>>
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>>
>> Wed 26th February CHE library chat: A Thousand Huts, the campaign
>> to promote huts and hutting Feb with Karen Grant The Pearce
>> Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, G51 3UU 1830 Space strictly
>> limited: please email info at che.ac.uk to confirm attendance.
>>
>> Do you dream of a hut in the woods? Changes are afoot that could
>> bring that dream a few steps closer. Karen Grant, from Reforesting
>> Scotland's campaign for A Thousand Huts, will introduce the world
>> of hutting, discuss the recent campaign developments, explore the
>> current barriers to hutting and celebrate the many causes of hope
>> for a new hutting movement in Scotland.
>>
>>
>> **********
>>
>>
>> Thu 27th February Opencast moratorium and public inquiry now!
>> Online All day
>>
>> http://stopopencast.org.uk/opencast-moratorium-now/
>>
>> The Scottish Government are currently consulting on new regulation
>> for what they hope will "regulate restoration effectively". But
>> whilst they consult, Hargreaves are being allowed to mine under
>> even less regulation and oversight than before the collapse of
>> Scottish Coal and ATH Resources. Communities living next to
>> opencast mines in Scotland don't need another CON-sultation - they
>> need effective action to safeguard their health, well-being and
>> local environment.
>>
>> It is not acceptable that this crisis is being used as yet another
>> opportunity for yet another mining company to scrape what they can
>> out of communities and the environment whilst taking no
>> responsibility for their actions. It is is time to seek justice for
>> communities living near opencast mines - please respond to the
>> consultation by sending the response below (or write your own) and
>> demand a moratorium and independent public inquiry now!
>>
>> Consultation ends Thursday 27th February - please tell tell you
>> friends, family and colleagues to take part too!
>>
>>
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>>
>> Fri 28th February Ibrox Writers: Meet Tom Leonard Upstairs
>> Community Room, Ibrox Library, Midlock Street, 1030 - 1200
>>
>> Glasgow born Socialist poet & author, "radical Renfrew" etc. is
>> giving a rare talk on his writing to Ibrox Writers at Ibrox Library
>> Community room, Midlock St. (nearest U Cessnock). Open to public.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Leonard_(poet)
>>
>> *FREE* entry.
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Fri 7th  March Winter Warmers Film #5: ELEMENTAL - THE FILM
>> Govanhill Baths, 99 Calder Street, G42 7RA 1930 - 2200
>>
>> Our final screening in the Winter Warmers - 5 Elements series. Note
>> the change of venue / starting time! ELEMENTAL - THE FILM 2012,
>> 93mins. Director: Gayatri Roshan
>>
>> Summary: Elemental tells the story of three individuals united by
>> their deep connection with nature and driven to confront some of
>> the most pressing ecological challenges of our time. The film
>> follows Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue,
>> on a 40-day pilgrimage down India's once pristine Ganges river, now
>> polluted and dying. Facing community opposition and personal
>> doubts, Singh works to shut down factories, halt construction of
>> dams, and rouse the Indian public to treat their sacred "Mother
>> Ganga" with respect. Across the globe in northern Canada, Eriel
>> Deranger mounts her own "David and Goliath" struggle against the
>> world's largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil
>> deposit larger than the state of Florida. A young mother and native
>> Denè, Deranger struggles with family challenges while campaigning
>> tirelessly against the Tar Sands and its proposed 2,000-mile
>> Keystone XL Pipeline, which are destroying Indigenous communities
>> and threatening an entire continent. And in Australia, inventor and
>> entrepreneur Jay Harman searches for investors willing to risk
>> millions on his conviction that nature's own systems hold the key
>> to our world's ecological problems. Harman finds his inspiration
>> in the natural world's profound architecture and creates a
>> revolutionary device that he believes can slow down global warming,
>> but will it work? Separated by continents yet sharing an unwavering
>> commitment to protecting nature, the characters in this story are
>> complex, flawed, postmodern heroes for whom stemming the tide of
>> environmental destruction fades in and out of view - part mirage,
>> part miracle.
>>
>> Watch the trailer here: http://elementalthefilm.com/trailer/
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> Sat 8th March Grow Your Own Course Battlefield Community Garden,
>> Ledard Road 1330
>>
>> This course is spread across two, four hour sessions.
>>
>> The course is FREE but places must be booked in advance.
>>
>> Please contact projects at urbanroots.org.uk or tel:0141 613 2766 to
>> reserve a place
>>
>> Saturday March 8th at Battlefield Community Garden, Ledard Road,
>> 1:30pm -5:30pm Saturday March 15th at Langside Parish Church, 167
>> Ledard Rd, 1:30pm -5:30pm
>>
>> Whether you have a spare window ledge for a window box, or an
>> allotment plot, this course will help you to get started growing
>> your own food. The course will cover the basics of seed sowing,
>> planting, composting, and harvesting, and there will also be help
>> to design your own space for growing fruit and veg.
>>
>> There will be lots of practical activities, help and advice, and
>> visits to gardens in the area.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Wed 13th March Sites of Love & Cannibalism: Excess and Dependencies
>> in City Music Spaces The Art School, 20  Scott Street, G3 6RQ 1800
>> - 2300
>>
>> Thu 14th March Sites of Love & Cannibalism: Excess and Dependencies
>> in City Music Spaces Stereo Cafe, 20 - 28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH
>> 1800 - 2300
>>
>> The Art School and Stereo present a free two-day investigation into
>> music, economy and space, involving performances, presentations and
>> panel discussions with musicians, industry workers and DIY crews.
>>
>> Q: What is excess? Can there be too much music? Too many people
>> with nothing to do apart from sound out what could've of been?
>>
>> Q: What's the difference between art and music, commercial and not
>> commercial, DIY and entrepreneurialism? What's new music? Why are
>> you not getting paid enough? What kinds of spaces do we want to
>> gather in? What musics do we make, how and why do we make them?
>>
>> FREE ENTRY
>>
>>
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>>
>> Sat 15th March Bring & Buy Sale / Coffee Morning Croftfoot Parish
>> Church, Croftpark Ave, Glasgow, G44 5NR 1000
>>
>> WestGAP is an anti-poverty community group run by and for people
>> who have first - hand experience of living in poverty. We are
>> holding a fundraising event at Croftfoot Parish Church. If you've
>> done your spring clean early, we would love donations of clothes
>> you no longer wear, books you've finish with etc.
>>
>> The Church is reached by taking the nos. 34 or 75 First buses from
>> town to Castlemilk Drive at Croftpark Ave. The no. 5 First bus from
>> opposite the St Enoch Centre goes to Carmunnock Rd at Croftpark Ave
>> (the other end). If you get off at the Co-op supermarket just
>> before a roundabout you just only need to walk a tiny bit back down
>> the hill to Croftpark Ave.
>>
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