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What are the major reasons for low growth in automation sector in India?Avinash I’m a little stumped by this question as automation refers to a broad range of activity. But I’ll go about it to the best of my understanding of what I believe you’re looking for.Automation can be divided into home automation & industrial automation.Home automation is simply using a lot of gadgets & equipments that help you with many of the mundane chores around the house. Home security equipment is one of the more prominent things that bring in a sense of automation replacing the much reviled sleepy security guards, alarming you and the cops etc. This thing has been around since decades but only the tech savvy & folks in real sense of danger caught on to it.Come to think of it all the kitchen stuff like mixers, grinders, juicers, toasters, coffee makers etc have been around for centuries with varying degrees of automation. Yes as we’ve been loathe to move on to mechanized cooking & machines crawling around us earlier. As we wanted the human touch while our parents & our ilk wanted to keep alive the traditional ways, but the newer gens built of different circuits & wiring won’t have any of the traditional manual labour and have taken to automated intelligent machines with gusto! With the coming of the Amazon Alexa, Google Home & other industry peers common Indian cattle class is fully switched on to the intelligent connected home living. Sure they gonna take over the metros first, the 2nd tier towns & villages later on.Industrial Automation is a different space that spans across a vast amount of industrial sectors. From manufacturing to agriculture and every kind of organized & disorganized industry in between, has had machines helping them do their stuff since ages. I don’t need to describe the machines, tools & equipment which many of these industries use, as that’s totally out of scope & much of it customized for their field.To answer the context of the OP India has certainly been the dull back bencher in the class as rightly pointed out, hanging along with other equally degenerate classmates since a long time. Then there were the A graders, the developed & most industrialized nations which were far ahead of the race for much of the 20th century like West Europe, Japan & USA etc. These had the best machines & the highest amount of innovation happening for their industries for decades.There was this time when India was cut off from the rest of the World and lived in a socialist utopia guided by utopian principles. Now that’s a long story of how we landed straight into utopia right after we got independence. You’ll have to ask me another question to tell you that yarn. Suffice it to say we were allergic to modern machines & other reprobate western imports much like those Pennsylvanian Amish and were very happy with a “Hindu rate of growth” as we were mostly Hindus!Obviously when we were woken up rudely from our deep peaceful slumber by the World bank & it’s trigger happy deputies in the early 90s, we didn’t have a choice other than to get out of the socialist business & let the mad bad times roll in. The opening of the economy in the 90s made India more in sync with the global economy & industry, making it imperative for it’s industries too also catch up with best of industrial automation there was. So since the 90s Indian industry & society is playing catch up.A crucial thing that has bogged down India has been traditional & cultural baggage that dissuades people from switching on to machines & machine tools for much of their tasks is so much human labour standing or sitting idly around them. They put off getting some tool if they can find some cheap manual labour for it. From centuries we have had ample human labour, it is available in loads cheaply and easily available everywhere. This dissuaded many employers from buying costly equipment that needed electricity and maintenance when you had this cheaper traditional alternative.When you had cheap oxen & humans to till the land why go in for tractors, havestors, electric saws & lawnmowers? But in our earlier past for much of the 20th century we had a crippling shortage of electricity, capital, markets, encouraging govt policies and all that was needed to mechanize instead all we had was a million poor mouths that was waiting for any kind of brute physical labour that put some food in their mouth by night.The good thing is quite an amount of change has happened in the last couple of decades, much of the extreme & dirty physical labour has declined and machines have replaced the humans. Cost of using labour shot up, using machines became cheaper, faster & better in many fields, open global markets made importing the right equipment easier, the need to sync with the global industry & society made machines inevitable.Now we have machines in farms, roadworks, civic cleaning, building construction, small scale & large scale manufacturing, maids using vacuum cleaners chatting away in their big smartphones, annoying IVRs, cashless ATMs, lazy students using Ipads but no notebooks, online campaigning through fake or unfake stuff, EVMs, cops catching robbers through cameras & mobile tracking, paps paying for veggies through apps & I guess I’ve not seen the end of it all!So surely and slowly we’re huffing & puffing to the cutting edge and sometime in the near future we would’ve caught up with rest of today’s techno superstars like our dear pal China!But one thing that makes me wonder is, if too much machines & robots are gonna make us like them!?Thanks for the A2A Avinash Hiremath

Be ready for anything: Disaster Survival & coping with Climate-Change is highly correlated with regular home multi-tasked Self-Sufficiency S-S level! To Survive, your future must be totally off-grid & highly S-S per person, per family, per village, per town, per city, per region & per country with very little need of big trucks, ships or planes. Everyone will thus be far more interesting & interested than now. We welcome visitors to our ¼ acre, 35 year Edible Jungle + all Solar home (inferring enough work to do at home), reputedly the most S-S here. All solar power super-cheap 12-volt system should cost about $400 for a 46 watt solar panel. Can’t figure why most everybody doesn’t want simply & cheaply to be highly S-S & thus live for virtually FREE like we have for decades on 5% of, & get rich on remaining age pension or dole (71 & 88 years), as anyone can without mortgage. That is what we set out to prove & write about ages ago. With suburban homes far too close to even grow a carrot or install a rain tank, folk may massively separate. Or they can have food plants + dwarf food trees in 100 veranda + driveway pots & along roadways or fences etc. TV + Media will become stuffed with such Survival + related Clubs. You need to have hobbies, a home business - like farmers - researching something, learn music, a skill or a language, write a big book, do a remote degree etc. Funny how when at their job, folk can’t wait to get home; then in lockdown, they are desperate for work.Such action is actually not new because when Britain, unable to support itself, was desperately running out of food when all the Nazi U-boat submarines were creating disaster havoc sinking so many 100s of American & British food supply ships. A British hero lady – name anyone? – created the Women’s Land Army to rapidly make UK entirely Self-Sufficient in food by converting every spare sq-ft of land into food-growing whether private gardens, allotments, nationsl parks, road verges, disused farm sections, city parks & forests + wild areas like near beaches – just as we have here on our 1/4 acre, 35-year-old Edible Jungle. Everyone of sound body automatically became an efficient Farmer - & Britain could well feed itself at last..Before buying a place where weapons are forbidden, check local Council rules. Underground on the side of a hill would be ideal to be flood-proof. Suggest a highset 1 big room fire-flood-proof kit home like ours for 35 years. First live in a caravan or van in a warm climate like Islands near Brisbane or Hawaii with freshwater access - our ¼ acre & small house Farmlett is plenty - after selling the main house & virtually everything else not needed on future FARMLETT you will have plenty of spare cash & converting is then FREE. Long range micro Chinese Freego electric folding K scooter charged by solar panel via an inverter + mains adaptor; or bike as a teen pulled by a vegetarian Dachshund dog + the tiny folding Brompton bike. I converted a tiny folding hub-gear kid’s bike with tall seat post + bag + big front sprocket, OK on buses.An ancient Chinese sage proverb correctly states that everyone should live as if they were poor because one day they could well be.I CAREFULLY AVOID: hotels (Backpackers or YHA best), taxis, Cars & car sales, petrol or diesel, planes as murderous machines, holidays, trash, lack of Self-reliance, ignorant unscientific politicians, single-use plastics, credit cards. chain saws instead of circular portable saws, never been to barbers since a kid (a 6-yo girl did a great job), water bottles, fast foods, restaurants, sugar, soft drinks, newspapers & mags unless containing vital data, drugs, pubs, smoke, gamble, never visit prostitutes, never rent or borrow, never insure home because it designed not to burn & never mortgage… We will bargain in most shops & always buy second-hand or cheap Home Brands. Avoid all single-use items like plastic + such bags + PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE items. No A/C because weather is perfect here, needing only open windows or slow fan. Never buy books, use Google or Library.Become as permanently & highly Frugal & Off-Grid Self-Reliant as possible all your life as we have over 40 years for virtually FREE, to Save over $100,000 cash for your bank at the bottom of the garden to avoid Banks. Then one wouldn’t mind if, as predicted imminently by great panels of US experts, that suddenly you needed replacements for: jobs, banks, markets & FOOD, medicals & health books, utilities, transport, fuel, energy (California is reportedly verging thus + massive bush fires), water & sewage, partner, security or happiness, insurance, pension, legal + solicitors, dole or cheques cashed + reduced entertainment, education, news & library ... Well, this has already started to happen with long collapse of the US Government + Already here not long ago Centerlink, ATO, Medicare & Army went on strike; Airport was considering. Plus the universal Virus Pandemic. If you drive or bus to Melbourne from Brisbane, as we have over years, you would only see about 10 front-gardens with food trees! NZ & Fiji do a much better job. So what’s with 'world hunger' & 'over-population'?Future of Food Growing: must eventually include: Insects, worms, Plant Meat, Seaweed, Hydroponics, Fish Farms, Feral or Wildlife instead of destructive cows, Vertical Gardens, Algae, Bush Tucker, Factory Farms & Robotics. We have plenty of seafood & shellfish as well as easily caught birds. Fertilizer = dig it in, compost, worms, mulch, volcanic rock dust, some minerals, urine & humanure (now scientifically acceptable). Make all ocean deserts Food-Productive using basic Nuclear only for Desalination efficiently + pumping.Hope you been stockpiling loo rolls + masses of tinned, jarred or packet food etc (needing no fridge) for years as we have with good foresight months ago, because several times the Bible mentions that we must always PLAN. When stockpiles vanish, you’ll need S-S replacement. Optimum low cost family is when one partner works, the other helps family become highly S-S. Swap jobs every 6 months or less! Politicians & Councillors seldom if ever have the necessary Scientific Uni Degrees or training to deal successfully with such as Climate Change!We should all be treating our own trash, or not making or acquiring any: RECYCLE, RESTORE, REUSE, REACTIVATE, REMODEL, REDESIGN, REHABILITATE, RECONDITION, RENEW, or Burn, Bury (often results in new food like our pawpaw trees coming up), Compost or Mulch all other “waste” + feed to any dog starting to become vegetarian at any age. I have a home-published scoring system for home acceptability on an island dead-end street: water & rain water on the block, near transport, shops & doctors etc, not down-wind from factories, mines, dumps, heavy traffic, Nukes, nor near potential nuclear targets, or pollution, flooding, or disaster areas (earth quakes, trash, hurricanes, military, crime…), etc. We are virtually surrounded by thick jungle & down a hollow to avoid cyclone damage; yet enjoy ocean breezes filtering through the purifying Paradise jungle.Plant an Edible Jungle on 1/4 acre using poo, piss, buried seaweed & compost, wood ashes & volcanic rock dust = fertilizer etc. Virtually all dwarf food trees involve little or no work, including leaf greens + sweet potato + fence vines, fruits & veggies.HURRICANE & FIRE-PROOF = Conversely to American DELTEC circular hurricane-proof homes, there are millions of fire-prone wooden American homes & yet our same or cheaper kit home wont burn & I have photos to prove it when 3 wild fires were attacking. You would think the ridiculous banks would support a home that won’t burn or blow down! Our home has 3 huge long bolts that attach roof to concrete basement. I lived through Fijian Hurricane Heine intentionally in a prestressed concrete hostel & noticed a thatched native cottage - of many - next door survive because 3 long barbed wires over the roof were tied to huge car axels hammered into the ground at an angle; which should also function to protect a caravan.Farmers are virtually never self-sufficient, selling produce wholesale, yet living on goods & services that are bought hefty retail. Without Taste-change, society is unadaptable. American credit-card-debt averaged $50,000. 3/4 young-Brit females are heavily indebted. We have a reputation for being about the most self-reliant in Australia albeit sans animals + over 750 publications & lectures, home & abroad.Our super cheap high-set flood & fire-proof kit steel frame home, are reportedly cheaper than wooden, had Hardyplank cladding & galvo roof + thick insulated ceiling. Also have a rain-proof attic air-vent allowing the air to blow right through the house attic length = vastly cooler even in tropics. 3 layers of box cardboard insulate floors under carpets. Also on walls behind book cases & cupboards against walls facing outside + in ceilings 28cm thick loft insulation. For high-set flood-proof & fire-proof bush FARMLETTS, choose a warm climate & cut down all trees & mow if not goat-eat the grass in a 100m radius around the home. I have photos of fires safely engulfing home when I didn’t even call the fire brigade during 3 fires - figuring they would be too busy elsewhere on ridiculous wooden-house safety. Water tanks should be concrete or same as fire-proof galvo roof. Mentioning all this to governments, councils, PM & fire brigades has zero effect = their collective too-hard baskets.Apart from 8 solar cookers & water heaters, prunings etc provide small smokeless air-preheating, after-burning 1-stick at a time (no axe needed), adjustable HELIXTOVE right: like gas stoves, it won't trigger lecture theatre smoke detectors. A bush oven sits on top + tiny fan if extra rocket-heat needed. A magnifying cosmetic mirror replaces matches with the Sun. Direct solar water-heating & cooking or wick stove like still in Fiji, but using cheap diesel fuel if not wood stove. Follows a list of What2do items, largely freely-available own inventions:FLUSH? We don’t because we have a deep failsafe simple 1-2m hole or trench in the ground dug manually in a few minutes or by a powered borer. A metal cylinder is on top, or place a commercial square folding toilet from Camping goods stores safely over the hole + on top with a comfortable toilet seat which can be 1/2 a tyre that had been cut in two around its tread circumference + lid topping that, which can be a bit of fibreboard.. Never failed us for 35 years, like the Incas, Mayans & Aztecs who dug muck out after a while for their gardens. You can do likewise by waiting some months using another hole, then with a hinged shovel hole-digger, extract the rich muck out for fertilizer - hence reuse same first hole. Or when full, plant a food tree in the old hole & dig another hole after about 2 to 4 years for a couple. Be careful no fresh water is used nearby! Such simple convenience is open to the elements (umbrella handy) but surrounded with sugar-cane privacy. Hole was only used for defecating - urination especially from females - was near all the food trees with miraculous results. It would be decades before even a trace of resultant compacted compost would leak into nearby rivers - if at all. All FREE & utterly Reliable, didn’t smell, didn’t get clogged, no bugs frogs or snakes as often found in sheds, hygienic & sterilised by sun & rain, safe & hygienic with the best view in the house! We have a bucket + seat loo on veranda instead of going midnight bush.Hindi oil lamp = 3 or more cones of cotton wool in oil + mirror behind. Shower: big matt-black plastic solar-heated canister + wardrobe mirror to help or stove heated gives plenty of hot water from a bucket above, fitted with a small spray tap.SOLAR PUMPS: Years ago I recall solar pumps were available for about $4,000. We have a 12 volt tiny bilge pump that pumps tank rain water to kitchen up stairs + it has a one-way check valve & been working for 34 years. Small 46 watt solar panel without battery (or can use said TRiCAR’s solar), drives far away windscreen wiper motor to turn $40 garden hose reel, when sunny (see sketch), into ¼ acre drip-feed garden pump working half out of water; small creek or wind could also drive it; water-lubricated & self-clears inlet about every 10 turns when it ‘burps’; speed = about 60 rpm. A rotating cloth strip water-lubes the bearings. We also dug in a swampy part of the garden, a small 15 m x 2m x 4m deep dam that is filled by the water table = great for garden watering + emergency + swimming + fish. Lacking a ramp to enable ducks, even kookaburras to easily exit the dam, we have a hand-span diameter plastic irrigation pipe 3-5m long, sealed at both ends that floats at one end & is tied to a stump on the bank. Garden needs no water at night or on cloudy days when the pump stops anyway. I don’t know why millions are not being made!New Zealand, among other countries, designed a system for such as pumping water or doing laundry using 3 ropes + pulleys in 3 directions tied to a wind-blown tree branch. As I recall, the system could put out about ¼ kw! Sailboats also are grateful for wind, though non-sail windmill & Flettner boats are vastly better then sail boats. On route to Hawaii in 1965, I invented a sail self-steering on both schooner & cutter which enabled me to stay in bed reading, sleep, chatting & radio-listening, all across the Pacific except near islands etc.Always buy second-hand or cheap Home Brands. Avoid all single-use items like plastic + such bags + newspapers + Magazines unless they contain vital data + avoid all PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE items. Drop off old mags to doctor’s etc waiting rooms, or to schools along with clean old paper ads.OUR SIMPLE 12 volt OFF-GRID APPLIANCES: Unlike 120 & 240 volt, 12 volt is quite fireproof. Before 1960s, virtually every Aussie off-grid farm, of many we visited, had a 32 volt cheap motor-generator set or Dunlite windmill with batteries. The generator charged 18 acid batteries for about 3 hours to enable all farm lights, radio, washing & ironing, fans, pumps etc. Some systems are 24 volt, but we have used 12 volt total for 35 perfect years. Home 12-volt appliances we make, or get from caravan, survival, camping or boat shops. Obviously not many low-power items are ever on simultaneous to the main 12 volt old solar car battery that is charged merely by 1x 45 watt solar panel + controller which should cost about $300 - FOR FREE thereafter; or thanks to WIND, HYDRO, OCEAN or BIO fire. Also ancient THERMO ELECTRIC POWER (TEG) by such as 100 watt TEGMART is like a heavy long-life thermocouple that sits on a stove, is 2.5 times cheaper than solar panels for the same kwh per day. To order: info@tegpower.com .Powerful blender = blades attached to a SMALL starter motor. A yachting submersible boating bilge pump not much wider than garden hose that fed it + tiny check valve for rain tank house. Include 12 volt TV (old model was smll B&W) + Antenna + cassette + instruments, games & toys + 2-way radios, players, CB, windup torch & FM-SW radio, video / audio, spy pen. Bed warmer is a rheostat variable power resistor in a big Milo can. We have 2 automobile Vacuum cleaners: one from the dump draws 1.8 amps, the other monster with attachments draws 7.8 amps & what a racket, both can act as air pumps for blowing laundry bubbles into big trash container on pipe reversal; or manual carpet-floor sweeper. Reduced jug element to heat thermos water very warm for coffee etc (never needed to boil) - has 2 wires running via a cork + thermometer. Brilliant LED lights & 2 or 4 watt car fan or portable battery fan playing on bare legs are very economical, much cooler than if fan playing on face, arms etc; fans can often save more than ½ air conditioning power that we find unnecessary even in Queensland. Ceiling cooling fans set on 1 or 2 are perfect. Our sea breezes via open windows & doors are generally sufficient. We hand-spray our T-shirt with water during heatwave, then have a small fan or breeze playing on the moist T-shirt, that usually gets too cold & we have to slow or redirect the fan. For low-humidity areas we have a tiny 12-volt water evaporator; big home units are very economical & take little power to supply cool air ducted around to each room. They avoid costly A/C. Power from same car battery used for entire 12-volt house that is charged by cheap small 46 watt solar panel. Had no Microwave then but there are plenty of 12-volt microwave ovens on Google with a good battery, usually on for short minutes only; though you could have a small motor generator just for a bigger microwave oven on only a few minutes daily; probably a gallon of fuel could last a year.12 volt fridge: our big 40L plastic trash drum, top-loading, efficient homemade fridge once cooled down for 2 days makes good draws about 2.3 average-watt = 30 times less annual energy than other fridges because of surrounding 15 cm total polyurethane insulation - & placed in the shade, wind & part-buried under the house, never in a hot kitchen. In cool climates, this outsider could be off during winter. The unit uses a 12 volt DANFOSS Danish kit compressor system that can go down to -11 deg C. Don’t buy a solid-state cooler that draws loads of useless current. Alternatively, simply get a 12 volt Esky camping fridge with compressor on the lid & surround it with thick 12 cm polyurethane foam apart from lid. Fridge alternative is a commercial FRESHIELD vacuum food preserver + hand pump + many sized containers (check Google); ours now for 1/4 century (sausages fresh for months; check weekly & pump again if pressure rises slightly).Add mosquito & cockroach zapper, sewing machine which is treadle for us with loads of attachments, flash-gun. Plus Power-free tools are handy + plenty of 12 volt tools: 12 volt drill + screw-driver, medium drill & attachments (jig, circular saw, sander, plane, grinder & kitchen items like mixers), micro tools, 12 v 30w solder iron, 24 volt welding from 2x12v batteries in series etc. Many items were windup or separate solar, though windup prefer in emergency. If desperate, TRiCAR could borrow the second 46w solar. Super cheap!SMALL ITEMS: some items work from built-in small solar panel without external battery, though windup also better in emergency. Items less than 12 volt like: 6 volt pocket computer printer, radio (also SW), 3 volt shaver, tiny fan, mixer etc run off VOLTAP, a string of forward-biased 3amp diodes from the house 12 volt battery. A tiny brilliant torch that needs only about 1 squeeze per week. 3 Windup watches. Calculators, 3 clocks & doorbell would be heavy triangle hit with metal rod.INVERTER: on home Solar battery for machines such as: mini microwave cooker, also to produce 240 or 120 V to drive mains adaptors to charge micro folding scooter + other batteries for whipper snipper, chain saw, saw, tyre pump, hedge trimmer converted to a lawn mower & brush-cutter by adding handle + 2 trolley wheels to brush cutter, mobiles & cameras, Computers & Printers, table lamps. Bed Hot water bottle like for years I used a 2 litre plastic milk bottle which never wasted water because it was put in the microwave to reheat & with that volume, stayed hot hours longer, particularly if wrapped in a woollen cover.However, Off-Grid without a battery is easy: Simply have a good inverter to produce 12-volt or 120 or 240-volt etc when it is sunny, so then you can cook, charge the e-scooter or TRiCAR, do laundry, heat coffee, warm bed hot water bottles, use blender, even small printer + sewing machine + charge small battery devices like mobiles, cameras etc + charge a small 12-volt car “BLACKOUT KIT Battery”. This small 12 volt battery provides many HOURS of power to several brilliant LED lamps on cables, radio, camera, small 12-volt fans + small 12-volt color TV, mobile charging, laptop etc. Can also be mains-charged if you on grid. But $30 gets garden-charged & switchable Solar LED lamps for inside & emergency.Our TRiCAR: Prize-Winning homemade 27yo, 3-wheel, dual, ¼hp, 1WD, 40kg solar dual TRiCAR here needing no rego, licence or insurance on roads (not motorways), uses small gel car battery charged from main solar panel directly. 2 Pedal sets help up steep hills if battery low, especially if far from home. Simple design freely available.KEEP COOL: ceiling fan is usually plenty here. Loads of crops preserve well covered in water, particularly cut fruit & berries, or don’t need cooling for ages. We hand-spray our T-shirt with water, then have a small fan playing on the moist T-shirt in real heat waves, that usually gets too cold & we have to slow or redirect the fan. With 2 or 4 watt car fan playing on bare legs is much cooler than if fan playing on face, arms etc; fans can often save more than ½ air conditioning power that we find unnecessary even in Queensland. For low-humidity areas we have a tiny 12volt water evaporator; big home units are very economical & take little power to supply cool air ducted around to each room. For outside in the sun, my favourite is a white hat topped with a small solar PV panel powering a cute little fan built into the front brim. Camping shop Canvas bag of water in the breeze or hanging in front of your car = traditional water cooling. Cool water drinks help + cool water swim or garden hose spray. Ceiling insulation + attic venting + summer trees shading the home are all useful. Take summer holidays up a mountain!ECONOMICALLY KEEP WARM IN COLDEST WINTERS: You can easily make a non-electric solar water heater, or they are cheap.3 layers of box cardboard insulates on floors under carpets. Also on walls behind Book cases & cupboards against walls facing outside + in ceilings; there are millions needing it! Long socks on your hands are wonderful in bed etc. 2 Hotwater bottles covered in knitted bags keep bed warm all night. Save bathwater there till cold to warm house a little. In bed we could have all 3 meals as well as watch TV, use computer & phone, read books, play & listen to music + radio etc.Apart from 8 solar cookers & water heaters, prunings etc provide small smokeless (inside home only to test), air-preheating, after-burning 1-stick at a time (no axe needed), adjustable HELIXTOVE that I invented decades ago; like gas stoves, it won't trigger lecture theatre smoke detectors. Fan-free if no smaller than critical size shown at ends, especially if mud-insulated & a cyclone-style hubcap like |----\ /----| tops its 17cms opening + safety mesh. Aluminum sheet under pot keeps it free of soot. Try overall geometry with thin card! A bush oven sits on top + tiny fan if extra rocket-heat needed. It is about a meter high; though with tiny fan the semi-spiral design can be much smaller & still smokeless. A magnifying cosmetic mirror replaces matches with the Sun. Also there are 8 direct solar water-heating & cooking, or wick stove like still in Fiji but us using cheap diesel fuel if not wood stove.Wellington gumboots are real warm outside; fill with water & walk around for a few minutes to clean boots & your feet. Migrate to warm New Zealand, Fiji, Vanuatu or Australia where we virtually have every day cloudless & no guns, violence or racism etc. Cold-climate solar heating needs: Not the electric type but the cheap hot water solar panels heat all our water real hot. Like my rare home in Cornwall, I had a south-facing glassed-in veranda which heated the entire house to summer temps via big slot in top & bottom of door to house from veranda. Ideal cool climate plan-view house shape is my “SUNNY HOME” with veranda shown here & big windows on sloping ends that house-heat most of the day if sunny; /TTTTT\ door to house from veranda had wide slit above & below, covered at night. Note corridor connecting rooms below - A lake facing the house sun-side heats house even more by reflection.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------HOW COULD ANCIENT PEOPLE LIVE IN EXTREME COLD WITHOUT MODERN HEATING?: Acclimatise - Geothermal hot springs - massive clothes & bed clothes + beanie cap & gloves - animals or dog in bed - my 2 girls either side of me in bed. Note rare glassed Cornish veranda above. Norwegian, unlike Swedish, animals are barned below the 2-story farm household all winter & they keep home above & the adjacent hayloft warm - they have it made. During summer a tractor drives up a ramp to deliver stock feed to top floor hayloft, which is dropped in pieces to stock below during winter. Winter manure is later tractored over the fields as fertilizer in summer. If you only have enough grass for a brief fire, heat up several hot water bottles. Libraries are nice & warm in winter, as are churches with their copious tea, pies & cakes. In South Brisbane, St.Vinnies DePaul have free board & lodging; or at least certain exact times, free meals out the back for anyone. I have used their kindness next to a big church for years. If you have hot water laid on, or a radiator o fireplace to heat water, fill 2-3 hot water bottles & store them hot for a day in the bed one on top of the other until you get into bed. I put one beside my back or stomach when sleeping on my side – or on my lap & feet if sitting at a desk; then no radiator or fireplace is needed. We immigrated to warmer places.Superformance! 2 different metals in salt water or in acid like lemon = batteries, Methane digesters from sewage only if enough animals because 1 human digested shit methane not enough to cook 1 meal.MICRO FOOD GARDEN: Of masses of farms visited & worked on over decades, I have yet to find one farmer anywhere practising even a little self-sufficiency. They all sell cheap whole-sale & buy expensive retail! Fill garden space with dwarf fruit & food trees including along foot paths; (don’t forget many vegetable leaves are nutritious, as are food tree leaves etc) + vine crops like passion-fruit + 2 perennial bean types along walls + note pine trees are quite edible + several plants that are our medicine like Sambung + bush tucker. Up to most any 3 trees can be planted in one hole with usual size fruit though trees will be smaller. Plant potatoes in a tire laying flat on plastic bug-proof mesh & full of soil; as plants grow taller, stack on more earth-filled tires. Piss on the lot, especially female piss. Can grow virtually all food in many pots as my sister-in-law proved on verandas & walkways, driveways & fruit trees beside road pavements + on flattish roof etc..Outback in Australian desert, farmers have disobeyed the Bible by over-stocking, over-populating & over-cropping their farms into horrible deserts. Yet on the wide strip of land often between their fence & the roads I once detected 15 weeds & grasses, 8 of which I found very tasty. Miracle.In our 35 years here + 7 in UK’s warmest Cornwall having planted nothing that isn't edible, including ground cover (= sweet potatoes etc), on ¼ acre minimum effort Edible Jungle of extraordinary plants including sturdy native & medicinal like SAMBUNG & Bele. With largely tree food, greater efficiency than ground crops & so little work to do, apart from occasional pruning & edible clover grass-cutting, that I got mild diabetes-2. Tropical fruits are generally more nutritious than cool climate items. Preserve Fruit via water, cool, vacuum, jam, juice, wine, sola dry, preserves, pickles, vinegar & cordials. There are nutritious dirt-cheap tree alternatives to: bread, pudding (black sapote), butter (avocado), milk (white sapote, custard apple, Peruvian Cow Tree = Brosimum Alicastrum or better still B.Utile…), sugarless jams are tops, ice-cream (custard apple), drinks, many medicines, many native foods & bush-tucker... more Cuttings to share from all our food trees you could ever want. When tomato plants have given a good crop, rejuvenate them by covering the plants with rich soil to start again. Land & home prices here are vastly less than on mainland. Could be worth taking metal chelating agent medicine to rid your body of metals. Try not to frequent crowd places or transport. Healthy greens come from many sources: hibiscus, sweet potato leaf, peanut leaf, clover, tops of many vegies like carrots, & onions, radish, Bele = tree lettuce has 70 times more Vitamin A than cabbage & lettuce, mulberry especially white + fennel etc.We never had animals in 40 years, but easily can have Indian Runner ducks or Geese (like guard dogs, no hut needed, happy with puddles) are ideal, not hens because hens lay more eggs but less total weight of geese eggs annually. Plus fish, shellfish like oysters & mussels readily available, rabbits, 2 goats & sheep also for milk, wool, mowing or transport cart etc. Have a worm farm to feed a 1/2 44 gallon drum or small dam of fish. Sugar cane for sweetness by splitting into 4. Last time I used a straw must have been about 1/2 century ago. We no longer use or carry around mugs for hot or cold drinks (or water), but a slightly elliptical small mug-size jars to avoid rolling or spills, keeps warm, avoid dust or flies & portable, easier to stir. These jars originally sold containing coconut that had been made toxic with over 50% SUGAR!Water Chestnut, algae & our Bananas that ripen midwinter like warm-weather semi-swamp agriculture = Swagriculture like for bananas, they also grow in geo-thermal Iceland. Perennials like pigeon peas & passion-fruit (never prune) etc. Fertiliser: sewage, compost, urine, waste, ashes, buried seaweed is ideal desert fertiliser, mulch & volcanic rock dust which is amazing - without poisons, chem fertilisers, pesticides or GM foods. Try tree Grafting, we have 2 different mangoes on same tree. Try Gleaning society’s or nature's unwanted food or things like veggie greens, leaves, seeds, cores like apple & pineapple, skins, naturally hardy native foods etc! Domestic Stock were once Jungle Animals - still can be. Work only 3-hours/week in small 0.1-ha (1/4-acre) Edible Jungle largely of dwarf food trees, including on verges, footpaths & driveways + native food trees. Without breaking off, snap high branches down to reach fruit, to better shade ground & to share sun. Perennialism has stupidly been bred out of most GRAIN crops for all the wrong reasons by farmers & "experts", even though perennial crops survive stress vastly more easily & energetically - as we found decades ago. MICROWAVE PEELINGS FOR DOG.SALT-TOLERANT FODDER & GREEN DESERTS: Plenty of food & other crop farm plants acclimatise to increasing salty water (tomatoes, barley). Amazingly on this Near-Brisbane island's tidal wetlands, typical normally dry-land big trees grow prolifically in tidal water - including coconuts! On a smaller scale, an American farmer detailed to ABC-TV how his terraced paddocks have slightly salty top field water growing salt-tolerant food trees & plants like mentioned tomatoes & barley. Increasingly salty water then irrigates the next lower area for even more salt-tolerant plants; until near the bottom, where salt is mined for commercial sale, he grows seaweeds or tidal greens as on this island which would be goat-suitable, yet don't taste salty! Also on this island in the tidal area are long tufts of very green grass that don’t taste salty; ideal for feeding goats etc by digging little inlets where desert often meets the ocean. During the 1970s a strong British group called Green Deserts grew normal fruit trees in Sahara etc by building a small mud brick wall around each plant; plastic under the plant held the water & seaweed, urine etc was another fertiliser. Very successful! Many of our local big areas are stuffed with rapid-growing impenetrable jungle.