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Wow, great initiative. I think this is a perfect example of the market solving the problem fast. My main question is, how are you thinking about emissions and w
by yowlingcat 6y ago
Wow, great initiative. I think this is a perfect example of the market solving the problem fast. My main question is, how are you thinking about emissions and waste? Presumably, you've got to melt and extrude these things somewhere, and heating the plastic to its melting point to create decent sized quantities of this will result in harmful emissions of some kind. Do you have some sort of a scrubbing system? If so, how did you figure out what kind of system to set up and right size it for your production capacity?
- econcon 6y ago>Presumably, you've got to melt and extrude these things somewhere, and heating the plastic to its melting point Right now I do nothing for emissions. It happens inside a barrel that reduces a lot of emissions. The emission will appear near the nozzle and the hopper. As those are the only opening in the barrel. Once filament exists the nozzle, after 10inches, it goes into a water bath. In future tho, I'll add HEPA+Activated charcoal filter lid on the hopper and use same for nozzle but with an extraction fan.