Aluminum Extraction From Clays

• HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
  
• AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
  
• ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
  
• FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
  
• TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
  
• MATERIALS: Bioplastics

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Aluminum extraction from clay - we are not talking about energy intensive smelting (requires fuel consumption on the order of 1 gallon of fuel oil for 1 kg of metal) with bauxite as aluminum ore, but a thermal and chemical process based on clay- not bauxite. Aluminum is not smelted, but leached out with hydrochloric acid: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4388280.html. This is remarkable news to anyone interested in a better world - formerly strategic metals can be made anywhere. I need not emphasize the ranges of use of aluminum.

Development Work Template

1. Aluminum - Product Definition
   1. Aluminum - General
   2. Aluminum - General Scope
   3. Aluminum - Product Ecology
      1. Aluminum - Localization
      2. Aluminum - Scaleability
      3. Aluminum - Analysis of Scale
      4. Aluminum - Lifecycle Analysis
   4. Aluminum - Enterprise Options
   5. Aluminum - Development Approach
      1. Aluminum - Timeline
      2. Aluminum - Development Budget
         1. Aluminum - Value Spent
         2. Aluminum - Value available
         3. Aluminum - Value needed
   6. Aluminum - Deliverables and Product Specifications
   7. Aluminum - Industry Standards
   8. Aluminum - Market and Market Segmentation
   9. Aluminum - Salient Features and Keys to Success
2. Aluminum - Technical Design
   1. Aluminum - Product System Design
      1. Aluminum - Diagrams and Conceptual Drawings
         1. Aluminum - Pattern Language Icons
         2. Aluminum - Structural Diagram
         3. Aluminum - Funcional or Process Diagram
         4. Aluminum - Workflow
      2. Aluminum- Technical Issues
      3. Aluminum - Deployment Strategy
      4. Aluminum - Performance specifications
      5. Aluminum - Calculations
         1. Aluminum - Design Calculations
         2. Aluminum - Yields
         3. Aluminum - Rates
         4. Aluminum - Structural Calculations
         5. Aluminum - Power Requirements
         6. Aluminum - Ergonomics of Production
         7. Aluminum -Time Requirements
         8. Aluminum - Economic Breakeven Analysis
         9. Aluminum - Scaleability Calculations
         10. Aluminum - Growth Calculations
      6. Aluminum - Technical Drawings and CAD
      7. Aluminum - CAM Files
   2. Aluminum - Component Design
      1. Aluminum - Diagrams
      2. Aluminum - Conceptual drawings
      3. Aluminum - Performance specifications
      4. Aluminum - Performance calculations
      5. Aluminum - Technical drawings and CAD
      6. Aluminum - CAM files whenever available
   3. Aluminum - Subcomponents
3. Aluminum - Deployment and Results
   1. Aluminum - Production steps
   2. Aluminum - Flexible Fabrication or Production
   3. Aluminum - Bill of materials
   4. Aluminum - Pictures and Video
   5. Aluminum - Data
4. Aluminum - Documentation and Education
   1. Aluminum - Documentation
   2. Aluminum - Enterprise Plans
5. Aluminum - Resource Development
   1. Aluminum - Identifying Stakeholders
      1. Aluminum - Information Collaboration
         1. Aluminum - Wiki Markup
         2. Aluminum - Addition of Supporting References
         3. Aluminum - Production of diagrams, flowcharts, 3D computer models, and other qualitative information architecture
         4. Aluminum - Technical Calculations, Drawings, CAD, CAM, other
      2. Aluminum - Prototyping
      3. Aluminum - Funding
      4. Aluminum - Preordering working products
      5. Aluminum - Grantwriting
      6. Aluminum - Publicity
      7. Aluminum - User/Fabricator Training and Accreditation
      8. Aluminum - Standards and Certification Developmen
      9. Aluminum - Other
   2. Aluminum - Grantwriting
      1. Aluminum - Volunteer grantwriters
      2. Aluminum - Professional, Outcome-Based Grantwriters
   3. Aluminum - Collaborative Stakeholder Funding
   4. Aluminum - Tool and Material Donations
   5. Aluminum - Charitable Contributions