Archives for Nov,2008

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CEB Foundation and Trusses Complete

from 2008. We have finished laying gravel and insulation for the CEB addition foundation. It is a shallow insulated foundation, made with 2″ extruded polystyrene insulation going down 18 inches, plus 1 inch gravel as the fill. There is a drainage...

CEB Block Production – Day 1

We are pressing CEB bricks and digging the foundation for our CEB/living roof/solar design addition. See for yourself: We’ve got thousands left to press, got to go. Support us while we go to work. $10 suggested donations. We have $1074 collected...

Sawmill Project Manager Recruited

Here’s a ChipIn for the Sawmill Project. We have added a third project manager to the OSE team, Robert Todd. Bob has been with us at Factor e Farm since July, on and off. He decided to stay for the winter, committing more deeply to our project....

Solar Turbine – Project Manager Recruited

Solar electricity generation remains a hot priority for us – as one of the essential parts of the Global Village Construction Set. We are taking the solar turbine project to the next level – a working prototype, 3kW of electrical production...

Open Source CEB Press Production Run Results

We have demonstrated a production rate of 4 bricks per minute in our first test production runs. We ran the CEB machine with 3 people, low-medium throttle on LifeTrac, about 12 gallon per minute hydraulic flow, a hydraulic pressure of 2200 psi, and a...

October Progress Report: Major Success in Crowd Funding

Thank you to all the people that supported us for the month of October – our transition to support via crowd funding. The October funding and corresponding progress were a major success. Here is the progress report. Overview: We are on our way to...