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Electricity-free kitchen appliances
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    Nyk
     
    November 2012
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    Just saw this the other day: http://www.gizmag.com/r2b2-flywheel-powered-kitchen-appliance-concept/17063/

    Flywheel + Flywheel powered hand blender, mixer, etc. Simple, beautiful design, requires no electricity. This thing is begging to be open-sourced. Seems to me like a good fit for the GVCS.
     
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    Matt_Maier
     
    December 2012
    Wow, that is pretty cool! I sent an email to their contact email to see if they have any interest in open sourcing it.
     
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    RabertRabert
     
    December 2012
    There is lot of pre-electric technology for kitchen and households available. Think about oven heated pressing irons (or coal filled), flywheel powered sewing machines, coal or wood fired stoves, ice filled refrigerators, etc.
     
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    Nyk
     
    December 2012
    @Rabert yep! We should definitely look to older ways of doing things, and suggest them (or their basic mechanics) where appropriate. I think flywheel powered sewing machines are fantastic, as are the other technologies you mentioned. But let's not forget that improvements can always be made. They didn't even know what a blender was back then, much less an immersion blender.

    @Matt_Maier well, the thing was built by a designer, not an engineer, so his version is probably not as efficient as it could be. Why bother asking him to open source it? Let's just build it ourselves* :)

    *by "ourselves" I mean not me. I couldn't engineer my way out of a wet paper bag.
     
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    4ndy4ndy
     
    December 2012
    You should check out the work done by Maya Pedal, their recycled bicycle-based machines are more efficient than this, but not quite so pretty, so there's something to take away from both.


     
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    Nyk
     
    December 2012
    @4ndy yeah! I saw some maya pedal videos a year or two back. I love those guys. I agree there is something to be gleaned from both. I think there is a lot to be said for pedal power, as well as kinetic energy storage. I've often wondered about a house-wide kintetic energy storage system. Like a long, heavy, underground pendulum or maybe a bank of cheap kinetic flywheel batteries or something.
     
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