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3D Printing & Peak Oil
How will the revolutionary technology of 3D printing help us rise to the future challenge of Peak Oil? In this video futurist Christopher Barnatt explains.
For more information on 3D printing, see http://www.explainingthefuture.com/3d…, or visit the ExplainingTheFuture YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/explainingthef…
For more information on the Filabot plastic reclaimer, see http://filabot.com
For more information on the SAVING Project, see http://www.manufacturingthefuture.co.uk
4 Comments on "3D Printing & Peak Oil"
BillT on Sun, 14th Apr 2013 3:14 am
What a pile of bullshit! Techie wet dreams that will NEVER scale up to any useful levels. Why?
Where are the many basic components going to come from? Oil? The mention bio based plastics…lol. What are they going to eat if all of the world’s land is used to grow plastics?
How do they recycle junk? That would be very energy intensive, I would think. You are not going to reuse real steel in a printer. Not even soft plastics.
It is an F–ing toy to make people believe we can have our cake and eat it too. The more complex the tech the quicker it will fail. LMAO
duke on Sun, 14th Apr 2013 4:46 pm
Still bringing solutions to solve a predicament.
indigoboy on Sun, 14th Apr 2013 7:49 pm
BillT :
I totally agree with your comment, but interestingly, there is great deal of curiosity in 3D printing, and the greatest interest comes from those who wish to ‘print’ the component parts of a Berretta, or a Kalashnikov.
So much for arms control, when you can download the digital file on your laptop, anywhere in the world, put it on a memory stick and plug it straight into your 3D printer. And as 3D printing develops beyond plastic to sintered metal components, all the better for weapons distribution.
Welcome to the brave new world of zero weapons control.
BillT on Mon, 15th Apr 2013 1:55 am
Well, if that printer is not any more perfect than my paper printer, I would not want to fire such a weapon, even if it is possible to make one. As for the rest. Still techie porn.
ALL manufacturing requires a lot of energy and this one is even worse as it requires all of the components to be reduced to a printable liquid-like substance. Imagine ores going into steel needing to be made into steel and then be reduced to a powder…lol. I cannot even imagine the energy it would require to do that, but it would be huge.