Open Source Aluminium

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= still at project stage at the Open Source Ecology project


Description

Marcin Jacubowski:

"I would like to report here on the most advanced component that we are developing within the context of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS): Aluminum Extraction from Clay. Clay is aluminum silicate. Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the Earth’s crust behind silicon and oxygen, and iron is the next after aluminum. Metals are the essence of advanced technological civilization. Currently, aluminum is extracted from bauxite, a strategic ore. For the GVCS, we’d like to be able to produce aluminum from common materials – clay. The ability to produce aluminum on a local scale would have profound societal effects, one of them being the ability to produce advanced civilization from completely local materials. This is the overall concept that we aim to demonstrate with the GVCS. Historically, societies were fueled by local resources, until about the 1950s, when transportation became cheap enough that products were shipped across the globe several times before they were used. This is not a resilient design for society." (http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2010/12/open-source-aluminum/)