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The Wild 'n' Out Energy of the Burning Man

Posted by Stoneleigh on September 24, 2007 - 8:00pm in The Oil Drum: Canada
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: distillation, leave-no-trace, radical self-reliance, renewable energy, rocket stoves, solar power, steam, sustainability, wind [list all tags]

This is a guest post by Chris Nelder.

RECENTLY, I spent eight days in the Nevada desert with 47,000-some-odd other folks at the utterly unique annual event called Burning Man. This was my third time there, and it was more than a third larger, and quite a bit more taxing, than I remembered from my last attendance in 2000. For those who haven't heard of Burning Man, it's . . . well, it's hard to describe. In fact there are probably as many descriptions as there are attendees.

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The author, wearing Burning Man basics in front of an art sculpture made from two oil tankers that you can climb through

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