Anyone interested in helping me design/prototype/open source a Gravity Battery?
The technology involved is similar to a Grandfather clock.
The end result may look something like an Obelisk or a 'Dark Crystal'.
Where possible Biomimicry will be used and at a minimum it will be designed so that it can be made locally using simple tools and natural materials.
It will be designed to be easily dismantable so that it can be moved easily. But otherwise it will remain stationary when in use.
Levers will likely be needed to operate it. It will be designed so as to power, power tools such as pillar drills and the like.
Whilst being mechanical it will be designed to incorporate electrical generation as well as recieving/sending power directly through shafts, belts and pulleys.
It will at a minimum use two towers, so that while one battery is descending, another can be risen, so as to reduce waiting.
This system would also regulate energy input, where for instance a wind turbine staggers, the battery output, provides a level output of energy.
I plan to use product development tools such as Design For Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA), Design Failure Modes Effect and Analysis (DFMEA) and Process FMEA (PFMEA), 5 Whys etc.
Once there is a few of us, I would look to incorporate the team as a company through Open Collective https://opencollective.com/ and to discuss the designs using Discord https://discord.com/. I would look to use open source software such as OpenCAD https://www.openscad.org/ to design the mechanics involved. And once complete would look to open source the designs and media to Appropedia https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia using the following Creative Commons Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Once the project is finished I would look to dissolve the company because "Small is Beautiful" (E.F. Schumacher).
I am by no means fixed on the above, I want to hear if there is a better way of approaching the design/management of this. This is just my first stab at 'How'.
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- Hi @Cuma Arslan Voluntary
- Hi Chris, This s voluntary job or paid?
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