Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Personal Fuel Makers – Biomass to Fuel
Based on a personal gasifier, care of Dr. Yuyi Lin , Mike Koch, et al:
which generates gas from any cellulosic biomass:
we can take the process further to make liquid fuels – such as diesel. Utilizing Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, a process proven on a large scale:
(from Wikipedia)
our collaboratory will evaluate the possibilities for optimization for small-scale …
1 Comment » - Posted in Biodiesel,Biofuels,Collaborators,Open Collaboration,Open Engineering by Marcin
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Open Source Solar Turbine Convergence
We are preparing for several guests here in mid August to build the open source solar concentrator power system. Today, Benjamin from the Solar Turbine email group sent an updated design on the solar reflector mounting:
In the August convergence, we’re looking to generate steam production data from this concentrator system. We’re predicting steam for …
4 Comments » - Posted in Solar Turbine by Marcin
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Solar Panel Construction
Here are some videos of solar panel construction that we took last weekend. This video shows the process for connecting solar cells to one another:
Here is video on how we tin the tabbing wire, and here is how we set up the soldering station. In about 10 days, we will have a set of …
No Comments » - Posted in Infrastructure by Marcin
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Summer Heat
We are in a backlog for Factor e Live documentation and updates in general. It’s a busy time – so here is a few notes. I shook the cobwebs off the CEB press, and our team is doing 3D and finite element analysis modeling.
We are days from finishing the LifeTrac open source …
2 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Compressed Earth Block Press,Global Village Construction Set by Marcin
Friday, July 4th, 2008
My First Day of Independence
Hello. My name is Morwa. I’m the black baby wether of the Factor e Farm family. I was born on the fourth of July, or thereabouts. I’m your pop political observer of the obvious. This is my first Day of Independence.
America has come far since the beginning – to degradation. Ideals of freedom and …
2 Comments » - Posted in Global Geopolitics,Open Source Economic Development by Morwa
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Factor e Live – Part 3
This installment of Factor e Live focuses on LifeTrac – the open source, life-time, design-for-disassembly articulating multipurpose tractor/loader. It is the key to powering the CEB Press, permacultural operations, as well as: well-drilling, sawmilling, powering the Multimachine, power generation, tree planting, back-hoe work, hay baling, combining, and other tasks too numerous to mention. LifeTrac …
