Building our solar unit to recycle plastic with the sun
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2021
- Video #4 in our series of the process of building a 24m traditional sailing dhow from plastic waste in Lamu, Kenya: BUILDING THE SOLAR UNIT TO MELT PLASTIC
In this video, we'll show how we designed and build a solar cooker and how we aim to use it to recycle plastic waste into the big parts of the boat.
Soon we will also document all of this and publish it as a digital toolkit, so that other people can learn from it, replicate and improve it if they want (so stay tuned!).
Special thanks to the IOME005 crew (the Red Cross Innovation Lab in Lamu), who helped us a lot in the building process!
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🇩🇿🇩🇿Thank you, gentlemen, for presenting and bringing the idea closer to helping to make a cooker that works in the sun. You have all my respect and appreciation. Thank you to all of you and to the lady who appeared with you in the video.
Great video thanks for sharing
Amazing work !!!! Thanks for sharing this low tech, hope to build one ;)
Awesome guys! Great video!
🎉 Much success! It is something that I was looking for if the plastic could melt with the sun and I already found you that it is possible! I will also make my design to share it from Mexico!
También estoy en eso. De reciclar plástico de la forma más ecológica ,es una buena idea utilizar energía solar. Sería genial compartir ideas del diseño, saludos de peru
This is amazing
Aye m8’s, excellent work!
Design idea: (actually, two, which will depend on your system design intent) 1) The focal point will tend to spot heat, so instead of projecting directly onto the rib form, create a larger outer round tube onto which the focal area will project, with the form tube placed inside of, and offset away from the focal point, and interstitial void filled with oil, so the oil will be directly heated by the focal point, and distribute the heat uniformly across the inner form tube, basically a tube within a tube with the center tube open at the ends.
2) Perhaps even better, use only the focal point tube, without an inner tube, filled with oil, themostatically circulated via hydraulic hose to an insulated reservoir tank, from which hoses distribute the heated oil to 'jacket' of the mold, which would allow you to create any shape you want, or just heat beams for softening for bending, 'remotely'. This way your 'parts' need not be positioned at the focus, but perhaps on a table or the ground. You would have to allow for a bit of expansion in the system, but a coil of 19mm copper tubing is cheap on Amazon. That way you use your reflector 'thing' to heat the oil, transfer the oil to mold with a 'jacket', and you could have a huge, long reflector, and direct the heat where you need it, via the oil, while upping your overall thermal mass.
I wished to join you in the work to gain experience thanks to you
I would like to see you build a bolt together bridge heck of an engineer project what say you
where I can get one of those solar cooker ?
What is the name of the reflecting thing you use for making parabolic mirror
I also would like to know the brand name of the self adhesive reflective material and where you got it...
What is the name of that glass ?
I think you mean "aluminum foil"?
The things are hiding only potato😂😂😂eating!
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Hope you didn't pay much for that plasma cutting? Old mate controlling the height was unique but the cut's were terrible.. Although, can't expect a perfect job from from a homemade 'plasma table'. He was obviously, looking at the ground clamp, using a very cheap plasma torch..? Table was built well though besides the ability to control the height.