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Friday, 15 July 2011

LINKS: July 15 2011

Some random items of interest:

  • 3D printing "industry" grew 24% last year. Wohlers Associates conservatively forecasts industry-wide growth to be $3.1 billion by 2016 and $5.2 billion by 2020.  Breaking out of the hobbyist market.
  • Inflatable, portable, satellite dish.  For the caddy of bug out bags.  A tweet from the trenches:  we tested that system and found it unfit for field use.  Not durable enough.
  • Scavenging Ambient Energy Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. A new way to think about living "off" the grid.
  • Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System  The paper by "Satoshi Nakamoto" that launched the effort.  A micro-manifesto that details a tangible tool, a method to enable the equivalent of cash online, rather than another useless ideology.  Sign of the times.
  • Bitcoin mining:  Power cost comparison across the US.  Idaho and North Dakota lead the pack.
  • Earthships.  Homes built to live off of the grid.  If this is a topic you are interested in.  Please flesh this page out.  Feel free to create more pages on specific architectural elements of the earthship and/or specific examples.
  • Coinflation.  Calculates the precious metal value of old US coins.

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