Onawi is a non-profit organisation that aims to directly contribute to a just transition towards climate change mitigation by making designs of wind turbines freely available to all.
We will develop these designs through open source cooperative development, which brings several advantages. By promoting open collaboration among all stakeholders throughout the product life-cycle we aim to make the turbines reliable and well suited to their end use. This process will also harness third party improvements and innovations and to ensure they remain publicly available under an open license as the foundation to future designs.
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We're very happy to have been joined by an intern for the next few months, who thought our project was interesting enough to leave sunnier climes to come to rainy Manchester. Welcome Thalia! WWEA have been helping us with some resources for her work - so a big thank you to them too.
We are looking for a couple of people with web skills to give our website an overhaul and make it ready for the next stage of the project. If you are interested, or know someone who may be please get in touch.
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London: Open Hardware Users Group
Learn more about the project
24th November 2011, 18:00 - 20:00 at Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG, [map]
http://oshug.org/event/14
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Presentation at World Wind Energy conference in Cairo |
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We presented the project in the WWEC2011 conference. We spoke to lots of interested and interesting people, who were excited about our project which was great -- ranging from representative from specialist local industries, keen students, retraining engineers to social scientists. (We'll be in touch with you soon.) If you weren't there or didn't manage to speak to us, please register here and we'll keep you updated via our (low volume) mailing list. We will be publishing Creative Commons designs over the coming weeks,
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Nordic Folkecenter makes turbine designs available |
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Our partner the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy has agreed to release specific 150 kw turbine designs together with Onawi under open licence conditions.
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Read more...
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