Infrastructure
Introduction to the Infrastructure category
The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community, such as transportation and communications systems, water and electricity supply. Here Infrastructure is presented as means, technologies and methods that can be employed in the event civil infrastructure or a component of it becomes unavailable.
For the below topics and any others added, each bullet item could be a link to a page with resources.
Communications
Create pages for these:
- Radio
- Cellular communications
- Offline and off-grid networking (WLAN, LoRaWAN, packet radio?
- Lowtech/notech communication
Water
Suggested pages
- Finding water
- Rainwater systems
- Irrigation systems (best in Gardening?)
- Analysing and testing
- Purifying and filtering
- Storing water
- Transporting water
Electricity
Suggested pages:
- Electronics basics
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Hydroelectric energy
- Storing energy
- Testing and debugging (should this be in each relevant section?)
Air Conditioning
Suggested pages:
- Air-con self-repair
- Non-electric and pre-industrial aircon
- Testing and improving aircon performance
Heating Systems
Computation
- Permacomputing
- Repair
Weather instrumentation
Suggested pages:
- DIY Weather stations
- Weather satellite monitoring (NOAA et al)
- DIY weather modeling/prediction
- Indigenous instrumentation and methods
Useful Tools
List of common tools typically needed for building and repairing infrastructure (include pictures)