⚡ Energy

Engine already live

⚙ Runs on the Energy engine — signed generation/consumption ledger, :5940.

Off-grid power from the things this land already has: falling water, summer sun, and wood. Metered on the Energy engine.

A stack, not a silver bullet

No single source carries an off-grid Kootenay winter. The plan is a complementary stack whose pieces peak at different times: micro-hydro (strongest in the spring melt and through the wet months), solar (strongest in summer, weakest in deep winter), and wood — which this land grows — for heat and as a backstop. Hydro and solar are seasonally anti-correlated, which is exactly what you want.

Already metered

The Energy engine already exists in the Soteria stack (signed generation and consumption ledger). The commons micro-grid plugs into it: every kWh the creek or the sun produces, and every kWh a home draws, is measured and accountable — the basis for fair sharing and for sizing the next addition.

Explore the two big options

Each deserves its own full look — the engineering is different and so are the questions:

• 💦 Micro-hydro — run-of-creek power from that 4 km drop.
• ☀️ Solar — and the hard truth about mountain winters.

Connected systems

• 💦 Micro-hydro — Run-of-creek power from the 4 km drop — potentially the steady baseload the whole commons runs on. Let's explore it properly.
• ☀️ Solar — The summer workhorse — and an honest reckoning with mountain shading, winter sun angles, and snow.
• 💧 Water — The binding constraint — and the first thing we design. One creek decides how many of us the land can hold.

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