A decade or more ago, on the Low Tech website ( which I still find ironic ), I pointed-out that a solar-concentrator is THE ideal method for roasting the ingredients of cement, instead of using conventional/fossil energy.
Use solar-concentrator for the roasting, you can reach any temperature you want, I think the way to make solar-concentrators not kill birds ( flash-incineration ) is with either sound they don’t like, or with making a dome over the entire site, & just putting a sparse “spiderweb” of fiberglass strands over it, so as to keep them away.
So long as the concentrator is still able to work, it’d be good-enough, & it would detach cement-manufacturing from the conventional energy-sources, for the heat.
( moving the materials would still cost electricity, but that’s minor, compared with the roasting )
It would have to be a sort of reputation-economics with teeth, not just mere-opinion…
Parasitism, whether scalpers of event-tickets, or gunmen who appear to sell the water from the oasis, etc, who do it for their faction’s profit, instead of “this is a communal-resource: & we’re limiting the single-user exploitation, & we’re making-certain that the commons isn’t trashed by any faction” type thing…
is a rude fact of life, among humankind.
Making it systemically-illegal, with teeth is possible, but … that is far far far from the ideology of the gift-economy, isn’t it…
( like the difference between being a Healer vs being a doctor: 1 is centered in others’ healing, the other is centered in their own authority * status
( dad was a medical-researcher, doctor, & later prof of medicine, ttbomk: any doctor who wants to claim that those aren’t the motivations can go read the book by researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright, on the 5 culture-levels “Tribal Leadership”, & notice that doctors are centered in the zero-sum-game of narcissism. Still reject my claim of evidence? Go walk into any normal hospital, & see what percentage of the lower-staff people have enough human-validity left in them, to meet your gaze, if you walk-in wearing a suit. It’ll be close to none, because their human-validity is already corroded by the doctors. THE most-spectacular narcissism-bodylanguage I’ve ever seen, consistently is on doctors. The difference between a Healer & a doctor is significant. They are not the same kind of thing, at all. ) )
I actually suspect that both paradigms are necessary, for any actual-world-economy…
Who would do the nastiest-jobs except for pay?
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