As Wild Solar is run by the Wild Stoves team, we have a wealth of knowledge on wood energy, efficiency and burning. This workshop combines our knowledge with hands-on activity (involving fire!) and the opportunity to walk away with a little tin of home-made charcoal. Artist charcoal workshop Artist charcoal can be made from sticks of most woods. Our workshops take adults …
Rather than store lots of phones in our caravan, we rent out power packs to enable people to charge their own devices as they enjoy events. The power packs have a capacity of about 5500 mAh, sufficient for at least one full charge of a smartphone. An iPhone 5 has a battery of capacity 1500mAh; a Samsung Galaxy is about 2200mAh. The …
We want to make solar power available for everyone and so although most of our charging is done by rented power packs we also have a charging point available 24/7 with a donation box. It takes a lot of effort and technology to make 5V USB sockets appear in the middle of a field! So we invite people to be generous, but operate it …
In addition to providing electrical power we are also able to offer a range of workshops: Making artist charcoal This hands-on workshop takes people on a journey from gathering hedgerow twigs through to the alchemy of charcoal-making. Participants leave with a tin of nature’s very best artistic material. This also includes discussion about the process of combustion and charcoal making; other uses of charcoal, and …
Joined again by old-time crew Katy, at Buddhafield we provided power to the ‘PermaWhale’ in the permaculture area of this fabulous annual festival near Taunton. The PermaWhale is a venue for talks and discussions on the environment and activism in the UK and abroad. We also set up our 24/7 charging station with a donations pot. This always proves popular, as people …
We had the pleasure of lighting up the Fanny’s Meadow site in June 2016, enabling them to switch off their diesel generator by night. Our rig pushed about 650W into an array of 60 LED & Tungsten lights stretching the length of the main field from about 11pm to 5am, when first light hit. Such a beautiful site, and what a line-up …
