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Electricity
Electricity is like water. It can be collected from the sun or originate in a central location and flows through a grid like water. Aside from hostile architecture preventing homeless loitering, it flows at cafes and libraries for all use use freely. Hostile architecture may be removal of outlets and covering them with plates, and the point of limiting it isn’t so much to stop people from drinking it as it is to stop the loitering. In general, we think of it as a free resource and take its essential nature in modern existence forgranted. During lockdown, electricity has been experienced as basic human need and the zeitgeist has not yet caught up—who view cell phones as a luxury, and time on Twitter as socializing. 2 160 watt hour+ batteries are recommended. A place to cycle them each day or each two days should be enough to power a phone and CarPuter or iPad-like tablt. The experience is may concrete by the homeless who may no longer loiter in libraries or cafes which are closed to seating.