Open Hardware Summit Report
Here is a report from Mark Norton, who presented the OSE Steam Engine Project at the Open Hardware Summit 2011: I attended the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science located on site of the 1964 World Fair site in Queens, New York...
Submission to the Open Hardware Summit
The second annual Open Source Hardware Summit is scheduled for Sept. 15, 2011 in New York City. The summit examines open hardware and its relation to other issues, such as software, design, business, and law. Since I can’t make it out to Factor...
Solar Fire Breakthrough
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a breakthrough on the Solar Turbine project. We are adopting the Solar Fire concentrator technology as our official solar energy platform. OSE and Solar Fire are entering into partnership – with a single purpose of...
Cyclone Technologies
Modern steam power is here. We met Harry Schoell – lead technical developer from Cyclone Technologies – as one of the many experts at the Steam Automobile Club of America Meeting. Cyclone Technologies appears to have the world’s first modern...
Steam Engine Electric Generator
We just got back from the 2010 Steam Automobile Club of America (SACA) meeting. I presented a brief talk on Open Source Ecology’s proposal for the scalable, steam-powered, electrical generator that we discussed in a former post. This talk puts the...
Steam Engine Prototype 1 Design
Towards the end of yesterday’s blog post, we mentioned our progress on the modern steam engine. This is part of our near-term development program (and part of Proposal 2011) towards upgrading our Power Cubes and the LifeTrac infrastructre to modern...
Dedicated Project Visits Continued
William Cleaver will be joining us at Factor e Farm on May 1 for a Dedicated Project Visit. He’s coming from across the big pond – from the United Kingdom – and we are planning for a 3 month stay. William is not a novice to creative...
Happy New Year!
From post-scarcity communities, open business models, open source tractors, land stewardship, to starting some serious building this year – here’s the latest: If you are liking what you heard in the video, don’t forget to subscribe to...
Steam Meet Report
Here are 7 videos from the steam meet, plus other conslusions on our involvement with steam power. We will build a hydronic heating stove with allowance for a steam engine electrical generator – even if we don’t install the steam engine before...
Perspectives on Local Economic Power
Here’s something to think about regarding our recent refocus on locally produced fuel and steam engines at Factor e Farm. Energy is slave labor without the slaves. At Factor e Farm, doomsday peak oil scenarios are not particularly threatening because...
