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Literature reviews and experiment descriptions ready

Our literature reviews and experiment descriptions are ready now, as part of our objectives to gather information about certain traditional technologies and to conduct experiments in order to test the implementation effort outside their traditional area of application. The reviewed … Continue reading

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Growing Spirulina algae in PET bottles

The history of the use of blue-algae as a high value food source Fast growing algae as a nutrition source of the future is not only an idea found in science fiction books, or case studies of NASA. In fact … Continue reading

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Water-purification with Moringa olifera seeds and other uses

On the history of water coagulation One example for the rich history of TK is the use of natural coagulants for purification of turbid waters. Already as early as the 1st century A.D. One can find historical records from India … Continue reading

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Sack gardening

Introduction Sack gardening is a form container gardening that can be practised in densely populated areas where a garden plot is usually not available for most parts of the local population. Like other forms of urban gardens that can be … Continue reading

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The Windmill

Introduction A windmill is a man-built structure, used to produce mechanical movement on a helix/shaft system by means of the kinetic energy of the wind. The picture of the modern windmill comes from the 19th century. By that time, windmills … Continue reading

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Lessons Learned [final version]

When looking at the development of this semester-project one can also identify several points where the same processes occurred which might have let to difficulties in the implementation of other TK based projects. During the initial planning phase a very … Continue reading

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Puspose of Experiments [final version]

Since the objectives and goals of this semester-project are covering a relatively broad field of topics and are for the most part intentionally based on a theoretical and modular concept (see the expired concept-building introduction), it seemed like we should … Continue reading

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Problem statement & Hypothesis

Until now we didn’t put the Problem statement and Hypothesis of our project online. Thus, here they are… Problem statement and Hypothesis helped us to clearly isolate the objectives for the project and gave us a direction for our work. … Continue reading

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Tools and Templates

After a number of protocols always writen in new innovative styles, forms and colors we were a bit tiered inventing the wheel over and over again and thus created a template for writing protocols. The template is available is [doc] … Continue reading

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All meeting protocols are online

As our project is going to be finished soon we are going to put all the stuff online that we were working on the last couple of weeks. First, all our meeting protocols are online now and provide a nice … Continue reading

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