Markus Kayser - Solar Sinter Project

Making Something Out of Nothing Using Nothing (renewable energy) This just blew my mind away, I do not own the video.. All the links are below:

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 triggers 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.
Solar Sinter project (solar sinter project)
Link to producers: http://www.markuskayser.com/

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Science & Technology

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• Solar
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• egypt
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• photovolatic
• cells
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[aleeeno]

Skip to 4:30 to see the Sand Printer

[CaptainPanick]

they forgot their camera at the end



[gaekaas]

Hilarious caricature of both sintering and experimenting, a real amusement to watch :)

Very good!

[kayaking4autism]

@gerwazjana No. 3D printers can only print one type of material at a time. Different temperatures of melting point. How can you print motors? Even if you could print the iron, you still need to magnetize it. Even if you could print the copper, how do you print the next layer of insulation over the copper? If you print the copper over insulation you melt the insulation, if you print iron into copper wire, you melt the wire. If you print silicon chips, you'll burn the board

[gerwazjana]

@CaptainPanick they can print a new one

[50pushups]

Maybe in the future all our sandy blobs will be made this way

[kayaking4autism]

@1isaacmusic Yes but Mars is farther away and you would need a larger fresnel lens to achieve the same results here on Earth. I think this device would work amazingly if you could get it to Shackleton crater where the sun always shines,, you would need to put a lot of heatsinks all over all the motors to stop them overheating!

[kayaking4autism]

I'm trying to do something similar,, when I started my own project /watch?v=BAWLjqMiulo I opted for putting mirrors onto a skydish,, but the problem is my design channels concentrated light energy ACROSS and not DOWN unlike this one. It never occurred to me to use a giant magnifying lens to achieve this truly "miracle device". My Kayser sir, I take my hat off and bow to you, your invention may yet save the world!

[ashwinnarayanVlog]

I wonder why he drags the heavy stuff across the sand at 0:50. Wouldn't it be simpler to just move the camera?

[noahhaverkamp]

@jambi99 You don't enjoy art?

[Fwuzeem]

So we can make cities in the Sahara Dessert now? Tschyeahhh!

[Fylgum]

Evolve this a bit more, and we could send robot 3d printers up to the moon to make entire cities/habitats.