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New Minerva Project Exarch !!cK/0OHXtz6 01/27/15 (Tue) 14:14:12 6a25e6 No.46

This is the Official NeMP Thread. The Stipendist Seasteading and Island-Building Project!

Introduction and Index
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y-9IklYRUDN8TDSR5gURSCqzt9w9bBkBUhMzBRBpqGo/edit?usp=sharing

Immediate Project Requests:
-Cool Flag Art, OP images, & NeMP themed /col/ banners!

-Ideas and contributions to The Minervan Junk subproject.

-Materials Engineer expertise on hull composite materials. My plan is to make a LOT of silicon carbide as a form of insitu resource utilization. When looking up materials and alloys for boats I noticed silicon carbide is also of around the same mass and density as aluminum, and is supposedly very chemically inert. Could a boat hull be made from silicon carbide entirely or in composite with other materials in your opinion? Why or why not?

-Someone with a good radio voice to do an introductionary video to the NeMP.

-More traffic to /col/, passively mention it on your favorite board, get friends involved in the NeMP, etc.

The Reference Video Bin:
-Open Source Ecology:
http://youtu.be/6GEMkvT0DEk
-Biomimicry Design:
http://youtu.be/3QZp6smeSQA
-Paraterraformation of Deserts:
http://youtu.be/sohI6vnWZmk

The Reference Document Bin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump-jet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_condenser

Exarch !!cK/0OHXtz6 01/27/15 (Tue) 14:29:26 6a25e6 No.47

Spent a few hours reorganizing everything to be less of an eyesore, and now I can edit stuff without being a mod of the board.

Let's get some participation going. Low scale stuff, like proposals for flags and such. I'm using my flag proposal for now, I like the messy kaleidoscopic colors surrounding the crisp white edges of the star. The blue half represents the sea, and the green half represents reclaiming land from it and making it productive, while the gold represents sunshine and abundant wealth.

Also, banners would be good, especially NeMP themed ones.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 01/28/15 (Wed) 08:28:48 6a25e6 No.51

Okay so Silicon Carbide creates a layer of glass on its surface that's a few molecules thick, and glass is famously corrosion resistant, so seawater corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

Density is good, weight is excellent, the main question is impact tolerance. If light impacts cause deep cracking or outright breaches, then it's unsuitable as a hull material. Unfortunately it's really hard to find reliable data on its material properties, and compare it to other materials like stainless steel.

The two forces we need to design the ship for are its tensile strength and its impact/crack resistance. Other loads should not be an issue in normal temperatures and pressures.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 01/28/15 (Wed) 09:03:54 6a25e6 No.52

The production of Silcion Carbide is a relatively simple 3 stage process.

Sand and carbonized biomass (seaweed, mangrove trees, fish skeletons, whatever, reduced down to carbon ash) are put into an air tight furnace and cooked at high heat, creating large lumps of SiC and some CO2 and carbon monoxide.

Then the impure SiC lumps are sublimated into tiny crystals of pure SiC and ground up into a powder.

The crystaline powder can then easily be added to a 3D printer which can laser-melt-print solid SiC into any shape desired.

I'm starting to like this SiC boat idea more and more but I need to do more research on its brittleness. It's about 10 times weaker than steel but that might not be an issue since we can make hulls twice as thick for the same weight.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 01/28/15 (Wed) 13:18:52 6a25e6 No.53

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So here's how Electron Beam Melting 3D printing works.

You need a box the size of the object you're going to produce, filled with the powder you want to melt into your object.

An adjustable platform starts at the top of the building, and lowers itself as the printing process goes layer by layer, until it's a complete object when it reaches the bottom.

However, a powder doesn't stay evenly distributed over the top. The platform either has to agitate the material to stay coated, or it has to be suspended in a fluid which will stay perfectly level and therefore make everything nice and easy.

So we're talking about a barn sized building with a lowering hydraulic platform inside that can support the weight of an entire ship, and then more complications besides that.

So basically we're looking at a massive project just to develop the largest EBM 3D Printer in the world as the bulk of our project after which point mass producing cheap-as-free ships could form a VERY lucrative business to solve all financial problems.

The ships being valued at AT LEAST $100k USD each means we'd have millions in funds after completing this automated ship factory.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 01/28/15 (Wed) 13:26:16 6a25e6 No.54

>>53

The alternative is we could forget about 3D printing and just pour molten material into a giant mold, let it cool, and then pull it out of the mold somehow.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 02/05/15 (Thu) 13:33:56 2bae8a No.88

>>53
Perhaps im just being silly here, but i don't actually see the point of any of the rest of what you are saying.
You have created an excellent idea for a business that could make you even more wealthy so you could begin this project entirely by yourself, is it that you can't contact any of the kind of engineers or companies required to build such a device?
To me the "ship printing" idea seems more valuable than the colonization one for the moment and perhaps you should try to find up and coming materials engineers at a local university and form a company of your own so you can later on start on your other (far more risky and ambitious) goals.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 02/05/15 (Thu) 16:34:47 d67160 No.91

>>51
>>52
SiC sounds hot. But why not fiberglass, out of curiosity? Because of 3D printing?

>>53
How heavy are the ships going to be? Perhaps the hydraulics is unnecessary. You could have something like a loop of railroad passing through the factory. Cars with powder come in, ship is made, they come out, laser gets to work on next powder car. Meanwhile some other mechanism (perhaps even humans) unload the finished product and load more powder.

As for size, would it really be hard to make a big printer? You just need a laser that you can aim, it shouldn't be too difficult.

While getting started, you can print all sorts of other things, since it's not like the design of the printer changes much with what you will print.

Early prototypes could be scale models that print tiny boats. I dunno, to sell as RC toys are something.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 02/26/15 (Thu) 21:00:26 a1d1d1 No.95

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>>88
you dont want a ship to be made in one piece of rigid material, just like you dont want a building to be like that.
it doesnt react well to stress; what works well is an assembly of materials like bricks in a wall.

Unnamed Wealthy Backer 03/03/15 (Tue) 05:26:27 b0e48e No.99

I know what you want to know but I'm not telling until I find out you aren't as flakey as you seem