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Solar Sinter - a solar-powered 3D glass printer

submitted by radx

1 decade 3 years 5 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 worldâ€™s most efficient energy resource - the sun. Whilst not providing definitive answers this experiment aims to provide a point of departure for fresh thinking. [Markus Keyser]

15 Comments

That one is actually quite cool.

The reveal @4:20 made my brain explode. Thanks.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by KnivesOut.

Ok, I'm impressed.

*timeshift

Adding video to channels (Timeshift) - requested by bareboards2.

3 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

ForgedReality says...

Not sure I get the whole point of this, but it's cool artwork, I guess...

Thanks for posting this. I have a Makerbot and find this very cool.

This is how the Mars colony will begin

I thought this was turning into some trippy David Lynch thing for a second sort of lost my head watching the multi-colored sand bubbling.

Be really bad if you are half way through something and run out of supplies.

shogunkai says...

>> ^Payback:

Be really bad if you are half way through something and run out of supplies.

I`d hate to run out of sand in a desert

ForgedReality says...

>> ^shogunkai:

>> ^Payback:
Be really bad if you are half way through something and run out of supplies.

I`d hate to run out of sand in a desert

Or when the sun explodes in a little while...

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