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Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter Project
Markus Kayser – Solar Sinter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo.
As part of his MA in Design Products at the RCA, Marcus Kayser has developed a solar-powered 3D printer that can sinter loose desert sand into glass objects. A device that can produce objects using nothing more than the desert’s most abundant resources: sun and sand? Consider me sold. The thought of a complete glass city rising majestically out of the very sand of the desert, constructed by swarms of Von Neumann like quadrotors has left me somewhat giddy.
If someone can get on with building an equivalent device that requires only rain and discarded copies of the Metro, London would be sorted.
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And You Thought Your Job Was Tough
Suddenly 50 unread emails doesn’t seem that bad:
“ …the Rondout-West Branch tunnel – 45 miles long, 13.5 feet wide, up to 1,200 feet below ground and responsible for ferrying half of New York City’s water supply from reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains –has been leaking some 20 million gallons a day.
… the city has enlisted six deep-sea divers who are living for more than a month in a sealed 24-foot tubular pressurized tank complete with showers, a television and a Nerf basketball hoop, breathing air that is 97.5 percent helium and 2.5 percent oxygen, so their high-pitched squeals are all but unintelligible. They leave the tank only to transfer to a diving bell that is lowered 70 stories into the earth, where they work 12-hour shifts, with each man taking a four-hour turn hacking away at concrete …
Ken Belson – NY Times
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Monday's Musings
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This image has been making its rounds in the blogsphere lately, but
only now have we realised why this is such a cool product.
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