Archive for November, 2008
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
CEB Foundation and Trusses Complete
We have finished laying gravel and insulation for the CEB addition foundation. It is a shallow insulated foundation, made with 2″ extruded polystyrene insulation going down 18 inches, plus 1 inch gravel as the fill. There is a drainage tube on the bottom. We excavated with the LifeTrac backhoe, which worked very well.
We also …
4 Comments » - Posted in Accomplishments,Construction,Natural Building by Marcin
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
CEB Block Production – Day 1
We are pressing CEB bricks and digging the foundation for our CEB/living roof/solar design addition. See for yourself:
We’ve got thousands left to press, got to go. Support us while we go to work. $10 suggested donations. We have $1074 collected for the November crowd funding cycle.
6 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press by Marcin
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Sawmill Project Manager Recruited
Here’s a ChipIn for the Sawmill Project.
We have added a third project manager to the OSE team, Robert Todd.
Bob has been with us at Factor e Farm since July, on and off. He decided to stay for the winter, committing more deeply to our project. He will take on the sawmill as lead developer. …
13 Comments » - Posted in Open Source Sawmill by Marcin
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Solar Turbine – Project Manager Recruited
Solar electricity generation remains a hot priority for us – as one of the essential parts of the Global Village Construction Set. We are taking the solar turbine project to the next level – a working prototype, 3kW of electrical production at $3k in material costs.
If you read this post carefully, you will believe …
7 Comments » - Posted in Solar Turbine by Marcin
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Open Source CEB Press Production Run Results
We have demonstrated a production rate of 4 bricks per minute in our first test production runs.
We ran the CEB machine with 3 people, low-medium throttle on LifeTrac, about 12 gallon per minute hydraulic flow, a hydraulic pressure of 2200 psi, and a force of about 20 tons on the bricks. The hopper cylinder …
7 Comments » - Posted in Compressed Earth Block Press,Industrial Swadeshi,Open Source Economic Development by Marcin
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
October Progress Report: Major Success in Crowd Funding
Thank you to all the people that supported us for the month of October – our transition to support via crowd funding. The October funding and corresponding progress were a major success. Here is the progress report.
Overview: We are on our way to neocommercialization of the CEB press, starting with the building of a …
