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What's new: Thu Jun 19 (2008) Innovating while knowing next to nothing
Innovating while knowing next to nothingWhat about introducing a design initiative that lacks background knowledge and probably is not possible? Look at it from a different angle: the "why" of it is well founded: there is full general agreement that deforestation should be halted, better reversed. But the "how" is wishful thinking, better use the word: "perhaps".
This it what I did with the new design initiative 'Solar Cooking and Baking'.
There is an illustration of how it could look, there is a list of assumptions behind this design, there will be a long list of urgent questions that just illustrate how flimsy the "how" is backed up. Yet I feel this is the way to do it, this is how it should be done more often. Presenting in reasonable detail a total picture should arouse detailed support. People should address us with bits of conflicting or supportive information. No one will do it without such an incentive. A few will do it no doubt with ideas and data that suddenly will give a boost to this Open Source challenge. I personally know nothing about heat pipes or molten salt. But thousands of people do. One day I'll get the missing news from one of them. What's new: Innovating while knowing next to nothing
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