page_title: Tamera
section_title: The SolarVillage
hierarchical_section_title: Tamera / Projects / The SolarVillage
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: See1 der Wasserretentionslandschaft in Tamera, Portugal English: Lake1 of the rainwater harvesting landscape in Tamera, Portugal
context_page_description: Tamera is a peace research village with the goal of becoming "a self-sufficient, sustainable and duplicable communitarian model for nonviolent cooperation and cohabitation between humans, animals, nature, and Creation for a future of peace for all." It is also often called a "healing biotope". Literally translated, "biotope" simply means a place where life lives. In Tamera, however, "healing biotope" is also described as a "greenhouse of trust, an acupuncture point of peace, and a self-sufficient future community." It is located on 335 acres in the Alentejo region of southwestern Portugal.
context_section_description: The “SolarVillage” is a test site in Tamera creating a model village that will be self-sufficient in energy and food production enough for fifty people. It can be built without any assistance from the big energy companies. Ecology, technology, architecture, and community are combined in a holistic pilot project designed and monitored by physicist and inventor Jürgen Kleinwächter. With the energy produced by a system of lenses within a greenhouse and stored in a hot oil system, round-the-clock cooking is available. Power and electricity can also be produced by means of sun-powered pulses of the low-temperature Stirling engine. Even in a hot climate, vegetables and other useful plants flourish and grow very well under light filtered by these lenses.
caption: Lake 1 of the Rainwater harvesting landscape in Tamera, Portugal
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