![]() But it worked in the end,” says Corey Johnson, Solarpunks cofounder and CEO of the Los Angeles-based events company Production Club. Set up of the solar microgrid took several back-breaking days in the heat. Instead, they did a bulk buy of Shiftpods, silver dome-shaped tents that were invented by a Burner for camping in harsh conditions. Solarpunks constructed a 48-kilowatt microgrid, the largest on the playa, using consumer-grade equipment. (Even Shearer’s camp partially ran on gasoline generators.)Īt least one camp in 2022 did manage to power its whole setup-including AC for 48 people-on solar power. “You're not the only one who said this to me,” says David Shearer, a clean-tech scientist and cofounder of Black Rocks Labs, which works in concert with the Burning Man Organization-the festival’s governing body, often called “the Org”-on renewable energy solutions. He points to some of the Org’s efforts to decarbonize the event, including deploying mobile solar generators for art projects on the playa, implementing a LEED-type rating system for camps, and testing out renewable diesel and hybrid battery-diesel generators.īut the big barrier to running Burning Man on renewables is air-conditioning, which draws an exceptional amount of power. Frankly, being a Burner no longer felt like a good thing. It all seemed completely wrong, and way too expensive each year cost me $5,000, not including fashion. When we made it out of this pathetic Mad Max scenario and arrived in nearby Lake Tahoe, we went hiking under a sky rendered apocalyptic orange by nearby wildfires.
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