Factor e Live Distillations – Part 7 – Local Food Systems
In today’s episode, we discuss the OSE program for agriculture. What did we learn so far, and how can we apply this to creating local food systems? We are proposing the integration of perennial agriculture, living gene bank, open source equipment,...
Sawmill Developments
Work on the open source sawmill is moving forward. I’ve been using Blender to visualize the sawmill in 3D, in order to help in the design phase: We’re getting ready to start building. What’s in it for you? The sawmill proposal at the...
Steam Dreams
I’m in the process of designing a simple 3kW steam engine for both a combined heat-and-power gasifier system and our solar power generator system. I can’t help but think about the future possibility of small-scale steam power for both stationary...
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 5 – The CEB Story
Today’s video is full of footage on all our building adventures – from earthbag, to cordwood, to compressed earth bricks – where you can see the progress of starting from bare land to making human habitat. This is cluster development...
Sawmill Concept Update
The sawmill project has undergone some changes in design since the last concept. I have taken over development, and based on a comment on the previous concept we decided to pursue a different design, a dimensional sawmill. A dimensional sawmill is one...
Part 4: On a Technology Base for Evolving to Freedom
Here is the next episode of Factor e Live Distillations – on the technology base for evolving to freedom. After you view the video, if you want to support the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign – take the red pill –...
Factor e Live Distillations – Part 3 – Towards an Open Source Tractor
I apologize for not posting the next video sooner, but a flurry of conversations following the debut of the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign kept us busy. We already have 12 subscribers. Who will be next? To support our work, you can...
Steam Age meets the Digital Age: Open Source Steam Engine
No, this is not the steam engine that we’re working on… First off I should introduce myself, I’m Nick and I’ve been watching OSE’s efforts for the last year or so and thinking along tangential lines for a while longer. After...
Factor e Live – Distillations Part 2 – Product Ecologies
Today we continue with Episode 2 of Factor e Live Distillations – on the products and product ecologies of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). You can listen to the video, and the supporting diagrams are shown below along with a transcript...
