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
• Lowtech/Notech communication
• Morse code
• Sign language
• Phonetic alphabet
• Cryptography

Water

Suggested pages

• Rainwater systems
• Irrigation systems (best in Gardening?)
• Analysing and testing
• Purifying and filtering
• Storing water
• Finding and 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:

• DIY aircon
• Aircon self-repair
• Non-electric and pre-industrial aircon
• Testing and improving aircon performance

Computation

• Permacomputing
• Computer maintenance

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)