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| **MAEM** is the **Milwaukee Alternative Energy Meetup**, or if you'd prefer a recursive acronym, the **MAEM Alternative Energy Meetup**. The purpose of the group is to explore different ways of generating, storing, and using energy in an efficient, reliable, and conservational manner in order to improve our lives and foster a respectful attitude toward the forces of nature from which this energy is provided. What does this mean? We get together and find ways to gather and store energy and put it toward meaningful uses. We look at what we're using energy for and why. We look beyond our current energy paradigm and find ways to make improvements. We have fun and build community through the creative process (i.e. making things) because if someone should do something about it, it may as well be us doing it. | **MAEM** is the **Milwaukee Alternative Energy Meetup**, or if you'd prefer a recursive acronym, the **MAEM Alternative Energy Meetup**. The purpose of the group is to explore different ways of generating, storing, and using energy in an efficient, reliable, and conservational manner in order to improve our lives and foster a respectful attitude toward the forces of nature from which this energy is provided. What does this mean? We get together and find ways to gather and store energy and put it toward meaningful uses. We look at what we're using energy for and why. We look beyond our current energy paradigm and find ways to make improvements. We have fun and build community through the creative process (i.e. making things) because if someone should do something about it, it may as well be us doing it. |
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| Stepping aside from the podium, however, I'm basically hoping to get people together to build things. Awesome things. Energy is the foundation of existence and I think it's one of the most interesting and important aspects of human life to consider. Energy is also at the foundation of our society, and our relationship with energy is changing in some fundamental ways. We'll have to keep up with these changes, and I hope this group will enable us to do that more effectively while having a lot of fun in the process. Here's a graph [[http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/sustainable-means-bunkty-to-me/|from the excellent Do the Math blog]] that illustrates the important question that needs to be addressed: | Jack: I'm basically hoping to get people together to build things. Awesome things. Energy is the foundation of existence and I think it's one of the most interesting and important aspects of human life to consider. Energy is also at the foundation of our society, and our relationship with energy is changing in some fundamental ways. We'll have to keep up with these changes, and I hope this group will enable us to do that more effectively while having a lot of fun in the process. Here's a graph [[http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/sustainable-means-bunkty-to-me/|from the excellent Do the Math blog]] that illustrates the important question that needs to be addressed: |
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| This is the place to list any projects underway, news, etc. | This is the place to list any projects underway, news, etc. |
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| **Meetings**: First meeting is planned for Saturday, June 2nd at 1pm. Subsequent meetings will be the first Saturday of the month at 1pm unless otherwise noted. | **Meetings**: First meeting is planned for Saturday, June 2nd at 1pm. Subsequent meetings will be the first Saturday of the month at 1pm unless otherwise noted. |
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| * [This is where you add things you want to happen at the meeting] | * [This is where you add things you want to happen at the meeting] |
| * Making small solar panels (Jack, Andor) | * Making small solar panels (Jack, Andor) |
| | * Small rocket stoves and gasifiers (Andor) |
| * High Efficiency Sound Reproduction (Jack) | * High Efficiency Sound Reproduction (Jack) |
| * Building and testing a semi-automated, portable, vegetable oil filtering and processing system (Jack) | * Building and testing a semi-automated, portable, vegetable oil filtering and processing system (Jack) |
| * [This is where the meeting happens] | * [This is where the meeting happens] |
| * Leave | * Leave |
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| ===== Projects ===== | ===== Projects ===== |
| ==== WVO ==== | ==== WVO ==== |
