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(Created page with "Concept that houses can produce: #Energy - from photovoltaics and wind power #Food - edible landscape, food forest, greenhouse, pond, raised beds, and all types of integration. #Water - water catchment, either to displace $50/month average water bills with purification, or for irrigation. Open source reverse osmosis would be useful here. #Materials - fused glass, pottery, fired brick, aluminum, and even cement - from local waste streams #Plastic filament for 3D printing...")
 
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Concept that houses can produce:
Concept that housing are not only a place where you live, but a place which can produce many useful goods or services:


#Energy - from photovoltaics and wind power
#Energy - from photovoltaics and wind power

Latest revision as of 15:58, 7 May 2026

Concept that housing are not only a place where you live, but a place which can produce many useful goods or services:

  1. Energy - from photovoltaics and wind power
  2. Food - edible landscape, food forest, greenhouse, pond, raised beds, and all types of integration.
  3. Water - water catchment, either to displace $50/month average water bills with purification, or for irrigation. Open source reverse osmosis would be useful here.
  4. Materials - fused glass, pottery, fired brick, aluminum, and even cement - from local waste streams
  5. Plastic filament for 3D printing - from waste plastic. To plastic lumber and other house-related materials and consumer goods.
  6. Consumer goods - 3D printer as backbone of the Open Source Everything Store. Model works as: print complex geometries for enclosures and assemblies, and buy a couple of snap in components as lifetime design consumer good products. The lifetime warranty comes from open design files, and ability to purchase the 'vitamins.' We can think of 3D printed 3D printer frame, reinforced with rods or rebar, as an example of this.