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What is the role of crypto-currencies in an alternative economic system?

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Essay : What is the role of crypto-currencies in an alternative economic system, and does this support ‘green growth’? pdf link here This is an essay I've written for the EV7104 Environmental Politics and Economics module at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Comment below.  

Hacking a Fridge-Freezer

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A wdf30k-921-029-ex thermostat failed on an otherwise usefull fridge freezer. I've used some high-tech home-automation techniques here to see what I can do to control the fridge by other means... The fridge is a Hotpoint, Bosch or something I can't actually tell because the label's been rubbed off. Hardware I used: - emonBase (Raspberry Pi 3B+) with server running, I'm using emonCMS from OpenEnergyMonitor.org and fitted it with a RFM2Pi module fitted to the rP 3B+. - WiFi Smartplug. I'm using a Sonoff S20 flashed with the Tasmota firmware. - emonTH with 433Mhz radio.   How it works: the emonTH sends temperature data from the fridge to the emonBase via radio, the data is stored in emonCMS. The emonBase runs node-red also, and this is the home-automation software which has a 'flow' I designed which sends MQTT data to the Sonoff smartplug. The above node-red 'flow' uses the emoncms node. Alternatively I could've used an http GET request ...