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...
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...
Towards 1000 Global Villages – Factor e Live Distillations – Part 1
Subscribe to the 1000 True Fans – 1000 Global Villages campaign: 2008 was a big year for us at Factor e Farm. Here is a review and the latest news.We were a little quiet for a couple weeks – our wireless internet went out in the cold weather...
Lifetime Design Buildings at Forty Three Cents Per Square Foot
We have demonstrated $4/sq. ft. costs for lifetime building in the last post – based on using on-site earth as a low cost building material. When our CEB machine is optimized to 3000 bricks per day, this option becomes really attractive as a viable...
November Progress Report
With the roof on the CEB workshop addition – we can relax our pace and document progress. Our wireless internet is down – is works intermittently in winter – so we are in the process of installing a land line. It is useful to summarize...
It’s Over Our Heads
The roof is coming into place quickly. We will have the entire structure closed off – including a living roof covered with soil and straw – hopefully by today. Through major catastrophe – a part of the wall collapsing because the bricks...
Torch Table: Day 1
As we go about finishing the CEB workshop addition, we are setting up our open source torch table development in the greenhouse. It’s been a long time since we started this development – but building the open source tractor and other details...
Supernatural Wall
The CEB wall is not only made from local earth, but it also has composted manure mortar. This was not our first choice, but part of emergency Plan B. The ground is pretty much frozen here, and we can no longer make earth slurry mortar. In our case, mortar...
Solar Turbine Convergence Breakthroughs
In a historic convergence of December, 2008 – Solar Turbine work of OSE merged with a UK linear concentrator development team. Both teams have arrived at essentially the identical design, down to critical details – for a breakthrough, low...
