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2. Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project
8 months ago
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance.
In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.
Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and trigger dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking.
This project was developed at the Royal College of Art during my MA studies in Design Products on Platform 13.
markuskayser.com
In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology.
Solar-sintering aims to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and trigger dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking.
This project was developed at the Royal College of Art during my MA studies in Design Products on Platform 13.
markuskayser.com
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if you`d write a book with hands on instructions, i'd buy some.
I think you would be able to find fundig for a project that uses this technique to build water pipes. If you are interested to put up a project for this, drop me a line: batist.leman@gmail.com
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Great work!
You blow my mind!
I would love to get more info on your Solar Tracking Device. We are looking for something cheap and reliable.
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increase scale again: death ray.
That's awesome, even though it takes a lot of time...
If this technology was refined and further advanced there's an amazing array of things we can do with it.
DIY 3D printing just got awesome.
Imagine the commercial use of this tech. Woot!
You inspire.
Well, the Chinese are battling against sand because its eating up their land and so they're growing plants to stem the onslaught of the sands, it'll take about 300yrs but they can reclaim up to 20% with this method.
Maybe your machine, on an industrial scale, could help?
As an extremely curious person, I'd love to know the numbers behind this project --like the peak temperature reached and the time it took to "print" those objects.
Joke.
You'd better put photos of the resulting glass object.
Thanks.
How strong are the objects you made, and what properties have they got- are they all literally glass?
This is amazing use of solar energy.
great work, thanks for sharing.
Because that could change the economics of housing in some places!
Awesome work, very clever way to remind us all that that sun sends us ginormous amount of free power.
Coolest thing I've seen in a W H I L E ! !
nice intuition and...very good project...! super...
This is a scene straight out of that amazing film The Man who fell to Earth ! IMHO the implications of this tek are so extreme, I feel it to be a future paradigm smasher!
I can just see this exact sequence of events unfolding in the not too distant future near a crippled spacecraft stranded on the bleached surface of Mars waiting for a new inertial confinement fusion laser concentrator to be fabricated.
We really are living in Future Times............
Amazing!