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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Steam Engine Update

Time for an update on the OSE Steam Engine project.

In the past month, I’ve pretty much finished up the technical aspects of what I am now calling the “Arrowhead Bump Valve” design, to distinguish it from the ball valve approach, which might be making a come back.  At Marcin’s urging, I encouraged several people …

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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

VIDEO: The (Open-Source) Ecologist

News 21 from Berkeley, California visited Factor e Farm a few weeks back. They are currently producing The Ration, a food and health reporting project by UC Berkeley School of Journalism. Factor e Farm is the first feature in this series. This is an impressively well done 9 minute piece. Thanks, News 21.

Trailer to …

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