Archive for January, 2009
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 7 – Local Food Systems
In today’s episode, we discuss the OSE program for agriculture. What did we learn so far, and how can we apply this to creating local food systems? We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment, and agroecology – or what we call open source agroecology – towards a …
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Sawmill Developments
Work on the open source sawmill is moving forward.
I’ve been using Blender to visualize the sawmill in 3D, in order to help in the design phase:
We’re getting ready to start building. What’s in it for you? The sawmill proposal at the wiki is exploring some important questions:
Is it possible that widespread access to a …
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Steam Dreams
I’m in the process of designing a simple 3kW steam engine for both a combined heat-and-power gasifier system and our solar power generator system. I can’t help but think about the future possibility of small-scale steam power for both stationary and mobile steam power applications.
In absence of a really suitable open source 3D …
17 Comments » - Posted in Biofuels,Open Engineering,Open Source Economic Development,Open Source Technology,Solar Energy by Nick Raaum
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 6 – Personal Fabrication
Today’s Factor e Live Distillations focuses on Personal Fabrication. We discuss our goals of establishing a robust and replicable, high-performance flexible fabrication facility for producing just about anything – while relying largely on local resources – and while participating as a producer in a global market economy.
This post is a good overview of the …
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 5 – The CEB Story
Today’s video is full of footage on all our building adventures – from earthbag, to cordwood, to compressed earth bricks – where you can see the progress of starting from bare land to making human habitat. This is cluster development – of course – which leaves minimum impact on the land.
This is a good …
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Sawmill Concept Update
The sawmill project has undergone some changes in design since the last concept. I have taken over development, and based on a comment on the previous concept we decided to pursue a different design, a dimensional sawmill. A dimensional sawmill is one with multiple blades that work on a stationary log. Because they have …
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Part 4: On a Technology Base for Evolving to Freedom
Here is the next episode of Factor e Live Distillations – on the technology base for evolving to freedom. After you view the video, if you want to support the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign – take the red pill – and dare to change the world. Here is the …
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 3 – Towards an Open Source Tractor
I apologize for not posting the next video sooner, but a flurry of conversations following the debut of the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign kept us busy. We already have 12 subscribers. Who will be next? To support our work, you can subscribe by committing to $10 per month, for …
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Steam Age meets the Digital Age: Open Source Steam Engine
No, this is not the steam engine that we’re working on…
First off I should introduce myself, I’m Nick and I’ve been watching OSE’s efforts for the last year or so and thinking along tangential lines for a while longer. After graduating in mechanical engineering at UW-Madison and working my previous two years as …
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Factor e Live – Distillations Part 2 – Product Ecologies
Today we continue with Episode 2 of Factor e Live Distillations – on the products and product ecologies of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). You can listen to the video, and the supporting diagrams are shown below along with a transcript of the talk.
Transcript: Welcome to Factor e Live – Distillations Part 2. …
