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Plastic Brick Homes?
Recycled Plastic Block Houses? YES
While Byfusion Technology is perfectly suited for certain situations, Harvey’s block making process is taking a decidedly different approach, one best suited for less developed countries where modern materials are not affordable. Harvey’s focus is on simple, low-tech solutions. Virtually anyone with access to plastic trash, no matter how poor, can start generating an income and making blocks for their home with his machine. And even though his plastic blocks aren’t as uniform as Byfusions’, they are certainly adequate for building simple houses.
Plastic block press showing all parts and measurements.
(PHOTO) Final plastic block under 3,400 pounds per front wheel weight. The block compressed about three quarters of an inch with the weight on it. The block returned to its original shape when the weight was removed.
Turn low value plastic trash into valuable building blocks with a $300 homemade press.
December 15, 2010, was a big day for Harvey Lacey, the maker of a hand-operated press that turns plastic trash into building blocks. That was the day Harvey made his first plastic block. His website at RecycledPlasticBlockHouses.com chronicles his efforts to make a block press and plastic building blocks.
Harvey says, “I see a solution to two problems facing us today. Plastic pollution is a worldwide issue. Another worldwide issue is affordable shelter. This block addresses both of those issues. It takes trash plastic and makes it into an affordable alternative building material.”
Harvey goes on to explain, “One of the things I’m trying to do with the block press is make it like someone would under more difficult circumstances. So I’m using common tools, no fancy machine shop lathes, sheet metal shop presses, etc. I’m also trying to use scrap stuff found around the shop. So far the only thing I’ve purchased for the block press is the three foot by one inch ACME thread rod and nut, $69.00 with shipping.”
Basic facts: The inside width of the press is eight inches, which is also the standard width for a building block made of concrete. Final block size is 8″x8″x16″. Four 12 gauge galvanized wires hold the plastic block together. A simple tool is used to cinch and twist the wire tight while still in the press. Each block weighs six to ten pounds depending on how much plastic and pressure is added. They are difficult to compress or distort. Horizontal wire around each block facilitates attaching plaster mesh. Tied together with wire, and braced with masonry reinforcement and rebar the plastic blocks create a very strong wall ready for plaster inside and out.
Half blocks are used at corners and at window and door openings. Cutting full blocks without losing the integrity of the block is not possible, so half blocks are a necessity. These are made by inserting a half block plug in front of the ram and then applying the same method and pressure as full blocks.
Harvey believes this block can be produced in developing regions under the worst circumstances. In other words, it can work anywhere there’s sufficient plastic waste.
Although most any type of plastic could be used, more valuable grades of plastic (especially #1 and #2) are best recycled so the material can be used again. Number 5, 6 and 7 grade plastic is plentiful, has low value, and seems most appropriate for making plastic blocks. For comparison, today’s spot price is $420.00 a ton for number one and two plastics, $150.00 a ton for three through seven. However, most facilities can’t or won’t process Styrofoams and film plastics like shopping bags. Those are shipped to the landfill. But they work great in Harvey’s plastic blocks.
The recycled plastic building block is just one factor in what should be a holistic approach to not only recycling but sustainable building as an industry. Plastics that have value as recyclables should be recycled when economically possible. Recycled plastic building blocks aren’t just an answer to housing for the third world. They’re an opportunity for changing the lives of those that build the shelters along with those that live in them. It would be best if it is presented as a new industry providing jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurships.
Recycled plastic blocks are perfect for places such as Haiti, where manufactured building materials are extremely expensive (far higher than the U.S.) and must be imported. Plastic blocks are strong, waterproof, rot proof and insect resistant, all very important qualities in tropical climates. There’s an abundance of plastic trash available in Haiti, free for the taking. Gathering the plastic would help clean up the country and provide jobs. Plastic blocks could be used to create permanent housing that’s designed to fit the local culture and their immediate needs. And with adequate tensile reinforcement, concrete foundation and bond beams, plaster mesh and plaster the structures could be designed to withstand earthquakes and hurricanes.
Harvey’s not the first person to see the enormous potential of turning trash to cash. Peter Lewis, the original inventor of recycled plastic blocks, is an architect and aerospace engineer in Dunedin, New Zealand. His company, Byfusion Technology, www.byfusion.net sells industrial machines that clean, chop and press recycled plastic into numerous products, including building blocks.
Peter Lewis has been helpful in sharing his ideas to speed along Harvey’s project. I’ve never met Peter, but I was very glad to see his willingness to help this cause. Peter spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to patent plastic blocks in August 2002, and millions since then to develop industrial scale equipment. The Byfusion machine is manufactured in New Zealand and can be exported in shipping containers. Their mass production techniques are appropriate for many areas of the world, including turning the massive plastic garbage patches in the oceans into useful products. See Great Pacific Garbage Patch for details on the extent of the problem.
While Byfusion Technology is perfectly suited for certain situations, Harvey’s block making process is taking a decidedly different approach, one best suited for less developed countries where modern materials are not affordable. Harvey’s focus is on simple, low-tech solutions. Virtually anyone with access to plastic trash, no matter how poor, can start generating an income and making blocks for their home with his machine. And even though his plastic blocks aren’t as uniform as Byfusions’, they are certainly adequate for building simple houses.
To work in impoverished areas, the machine has to be low cost, simple to use, easy to make, durable and create a product that can be used by low skilled laborers with a consistent degree of success.
Another interesting aspect Harvey is using is an open source process to help spread his ideas as quickly as possible. Anyone can freely copy and use his press design. Free drawings are now available on his website. All Harvey asks is that if anyone does develop an improved version to please let him know about it so the improvements can be shared with others.
Another goal is to create a cottage industry process that’s similar to the one used to produce compressed earth blocks (CEBs) in many countries. Each village or town could be making plastic blocks where it is not cost effective or practical to send low value plastic trash to big cities for processing.
Harvey‘s goal is to see his machine manufactured and distributed everywhere alternative housing is needed. He also wants to see another model of this machine that is automated for use in the industrialized world. For those who can afford the extra cost, it would not be difficult to modify a log splitting machine to greatly increase output.
At last, there’s a method for 100 percent recycling of plastics. The valuable plastics need to be separated and recycled. The rest of it needs to go into useful products such as building blocks — 100 percent recycling at its best.
Harvey Lacey Wants to Rebuild the (Third) World One Bale of Recycled Plastic at a Time, by Robert Wilonsky, The Dallas Observer Blog
Photos courtesy Harvey Lacey
Plastic Bricks - WALMART are you interested??
👉and, when all is said and tried, and plastic ‘needs’ to be discarded send it to a ‘brick maker’.
Introducing Peter Lewis from Dunedin, New Zealand.
‘Peter
Lewis spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to patent plastic blocks
in August 2002, and millions since then to develop industrial scale
equipment. The Byfusion machine required to make the bricks is
manufactured in New Zealand and can be exported in shipping containers.
Their mass production techniques are appropriate for many areas of the
world, including turning the massive plastic garbage patches in the
oceans into useful products.
See Great Pacific Garbage Patch for details on the extent of the problem. ‘ excerpt from article Recycled Plastic Block Houses (http://www.motherearthnews.com)
‘These
rock-hard bricks could be used for garden retaining or landscaping
walls, and had other potential uses including shock absorbers behind
crash barriers’. Read Peter’s full story from the Otago times 2010
article – by clicking on the image below.
Harvey Lacey a Texan man who evolved Peter’s idea further over the last few years, first by enlisting Peter’s help, machines and knowledge set up his own operation based in Texas, USA.
TIME to stop plastic
The plastic debris housed in landfills and natural environments — currently 4.9 billion metric tons — will more than double by 2050, scientists reported Wednesday in Science Advances.
READ: Humans have made 8.3 billion tons of plastic. Where does it all go? | PBS NewsHour
This Place Will Be Water (dot) org
https://www.thisplacewillbewater.org/
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Hyannis on Cape Cod will be gone, and most of Boston
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I keep finding adoptees
Born in Bremerton, Washington.
Very Shortly Thereafter
Doug and Cheryl Knox take me home to Carol Stream, Illinois.
Childhood
“Why was I adopted?” and “Where do I come from?” sit on a shelf in our house.
Life
Believe I am an adopted robot child like Vicki from Small Wonder.
After October 1989
Search for my biological mother online at least once a year.
Biological sister creates a post on an adoption registry looking for me.
Find my biological sister’s post while watching The X-Files.
Meet my biological mother, father, and sister.
"What are you? What are you? What are you?"
I started singing opera again in early 2016 after a five-year break. Shortly thereafter, I made the decision that I wanted to write and perform a one-person opera exploring my ancestry and my love of sci-fi.
I've been in the process of thinking through all that for awhile but I really took note of the doubt I felt about this project post-election. I felt myself encouraging myself to table it for another moment, because this future moment would require some other effort altogether, which I needed to be prepared for. But then I was like, why would I allow for the self-erasure of this narrative, my voice, my ancestry? Where are these stories and other stories like it disappearing to, as this scary grand narrative comes to consume us all? It is critical to make room for the multitude of selves that we embody, even while the dire consequences of being those selves continue to effect more and more (so many have lived under threat for as long as the U.S.A. has existed - this is not new - the field has simply[ expanded).
This piece for the Creative Independent, which merges with the timeline originally published in THERE IS NOTHING TO DIVIDE US IF WE DO NOT EXIST by Dominica Publishing (http://dominicapublishing.com), explores some of these thoughts as I continue working on the opera.
- Sara Knox Hunter, 2016
LOVE INJECTION
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"The old model of publishing is broken and I think there are new models out there that actually work."
Paul: We did it ourselves. As a DJ you generally have
decent relationships with record stores in New York, so we distributed
it that way. It was totally free for everyone at that point. We just
walked them into our favorite record stores and left them.
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Freelance content writers generally charge per word. A good writer can usually charge somewhere between $1.00 and $1.50 per 100 words and can probably write 750-1000 words per hour. That works out from anywhere to $7.50/hour to $15/hour. But that’s not even including the time spent acquiring new writing clients. So how did I turn this $10/hour job into a $25/hour job?
I found a simple way to take somebody who writes 750 words per hour and turn them into somebody who writes 4,000 words per hour! And if you write 4,000 words per hour, and charge a measly $0.65 per 100 words, that works out to over $25/hour! You can do that with new improved WordAI version 4. This spinner creates unique human readable articles in minutes. Just search the article you need at in any article directory for example ezine, copy it and paste in Wordai and rewrite. Make couple of edits if required and you have ready to sell article! You can sell your content at Seoclerks or Fiverr.com All work can be done in 5 minutes!The guy who posted this: HERE
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code: cool. yellow trace
GO:
https://www.yellowtrace.com.au/mark-dorf-surreal-mix-of-photography-digital-media/
Mark Dorf’s Surreal Mix of Photography & Digital Media. https://t.co/be4g7KzBQk pic.twitter.com/KA9j9ljzy0— yellowtrace (@yellowtrace) March 23, 2017
Surreal .your brain on power. brain injury.
Read with me
Subjects under the influence of power, [the UC Berkeley psychology professor Dacher Keltner] found in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, and, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view.Sukhvinder Obhi, a neuroscientist at McMaster University, in Ontario, recently described something similar. Unlike Keltner, who studies behaviors, Obhi studies brains. And when he put the heads of the powerful and the not-so-powerful under a transcranial-magnetic-stimulation machine, he found that power, in fact, impairs a specific neural process, “mirroring,” that may be a cornerstone of empathy. Which gives a neurological basis to what Keltner has termed the “power paradox”: Once we have power, we lose some of the capacities we needed to gain it in the first place.
This is a depressing finding. Knowledge is supposed to be power. But what good is knowing that power deprives you of knowledge?
Complex? Ancient? Alchemy?
Get this - we like to study alchemy! Why? It's a lost art!! But in reality most written is made up to get us off track of the real deal, the real thing...
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Derived from the Arabic root "kimia", from the Coptic "khem" (referring to the fertile black soil of the Nile delta), the word "alchemy" alludes to the dark mystery of the primordial or First Matter (the Khem). The discovery of this elusive original matter, from which all others are deemed simply polluted variants (the purist being Gold), is considered the alchemist's central goal — along with the discovery of the Stone of Knowledge (The Philosophers' Stone) and the key to Eternal Youth. As you can imagine, not the simplest of day jobs. As well as reams of text, the ins and outs of the alchemist's task, steeped as it is in a dizzyingly complex symbology, has given birth to a whole host of strange and wondrous imagery over the centuries. Here we pick out some favourites, many found on Wellcome Images and the brilliant Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Internet Archive.
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| From the Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825 — Source. |
Bimbo's Initiation HD 1080p
“Bimbo’s Initiation” (1931) is an unnerving and surreal Fleischer Studio short animation. It’s an early example of mass media featuring blatant occult symbolism and has influenced a number of artists such as Jim Woodring (the Frank cartoons), Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone), Joe Dante (Twilight Zone: The Movie) and Jared Moldenhauer (the Cuphead video game).
This SHOULD scare you. Does it?
This SHOULD scare you. Does it?
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