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+===== Alum alt-tech tour 2015 =====
+**The tour was a success!  Thanks to all who helped and participated! [[tour|Details of the tour]]  --- [[photos|Some photos of the tour (more coming soon)]] **
+==== A UK tour to spread ideas and techniques for energy autonomy ====
 Alum alttech workshop and the authors of [[http://ameba.ehion.com|freenetworks wiki]] will make an educational tour in summer 2015 presenting talks, workshops and discussions on the theme of off-grid living and DIY small-scale renewable energy systems.  On the tour we
 will demonstrate simple, low-cost wind and solar systems but with a
-particular focus on maintaining and rejuvinating batteries, as replacing
+particular focus on maintaining and rejuvinating batteries and ideas for new kinds of batteries better suited to our needs - small scale, low cost, long term, low voltage systems.
-batteries is undoubably the most environmentally damaging (and expensive!)
-aspect of off-grid living.
-We believe energy autonomy is important not only from an environmental perspective but because it gives communities financial indepence and can make it possibile to live in more remote places, encouraging de-urbanisation and access to land.  We want to move away from cities and closer to nature and to think long term.
+We want an end to nuclear power, to minimise our use of coal and gas, and to stop the construction of bigger, higher voltage powerlines.  However, we believe energy autonomy is important not only from an environmental perspective but because it gives communities financial indepence and can make it possibile to live in more remote places, encouraging de-urbanisation and access to land.  We want to move away from cities, closer to nature and to think long term!
-Our tour will visit communities and farms across the UK who are using alternative energy, or would like to be.  We will make our talks accessible to people of all ages and levels
+Our tour will visit communities and farms across the UK who are using alternative energy, or would like to be.  We will make our talks and workshops accessible to people of all ages and levels of knowledge, and will do childrens activites including alum crystal growing, to demonstrate how safe it compared to battery acid!
-of knowledge, and will do childrens activites including alum crystal
-growing, to demonstrate how safe it compared to battery acid!
 The tour will be an opportunity for the groups we are visiting to share information, as we will bring ideas and information from different groups together and create a mailing list to continue to share ideas and support each other after the tour.
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 {{ :alum_solarpanel.png?100|photovoltaic panel}}
   * **Solar panel installation and maintenance** \\ including regulators and maximum power point tracking
-  * **DIY Wind turbines based on [[http://scoraigwind.co.uk/|Hugh Piggott's design]]**
+  * **DIY Wind turbines** based on [[http://scoraigwind.co.uk/|Hugh Piggott's design]]
   * **Building pedal generators** \\ We will look at simple pedal generator designs, using DC motors and cycle training stands.
   * **12v lighting tips and tricks** \\ Getting LEDs cheaply, and reducing loss on larger systems by using short cable runs and thick cable.
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 More information about all of these topics can be found on our **[[info|Information and resources]]** page
 **[[tour|Where we will give workshops]]**
+==== Campaigns against the energy monster ===
+{{ :alum_powerline3.jpeg|High voltage lines are taking over}}
+  * [[http://stophinkley.org/|Stop Hinkley]] Campaign against two new nuclear reactors planned at Hinkley Point in Somerset
+  * [[http://www.nodashforgas.org.uk/|No Dash for Gas – Reclaim the Power]] against fracking and plans for 30 new gas fired powerstations in the UK.
+  * [[http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/|Coal Action Scotland]] against new opencast coal mining in Scotland
+  * [[http://www.stop-tht.org/|Stop-THT]] against the contruction of 'Très Haute Tension' (very high voltage) lines across france and beyond.
+  * [[http://www.noalamat.com/|No a la MAT]] against the construction of 'Muy Alta Tensión' (very high voltage) lines in Spain and beyond.
 ==== About our group ====
   * {{:alum_alternative_energy_constitution.doc|Our constitution}}

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