3D printing

At 3,800 square feet, the barracks will be the biggest 3D printed structure in North America.

The community will consist of 15 3D printed houses built on five acres of land, made of modular, prefabricated 3D printed individual panels that are shipped to the construction site and put together there.

When completed the building will have five separate apartments and a total square footage of 4,090. The printer will lay down its cement mix on site, no subsequent moving or assembly required.

Policymakers and business leaders will need to develop new related approaches and work together to build innovative production systems that truly benefit everyone.

This company recently printed a 350-square-foot studio demo unit in under 24 hours (this kind of time frame has become pretty standard for 3D printed homes), and it has already delivered two units to homeowners.

It’s predicted that traditional agriculture will soon be replaced by industrial-scale brewing of single-celled organisms genetically modified to produce all the nutrients we need and that additive manufacturing and nanotech will build all the materials required for the modern world from the molecule up rather than extracting scarce natural resources.

Limited by manufacturing, labour, and transportation challenges, current wind turbine technologies have faced some stiff headwinds. GE thinks 3D printing can double the height of its turbines without breaking the bank.

Opening the Data61 Live conference in Melbourne, Larry Marshall said we can look for someone to blame for shifts, “and we see that a lot in politics … or we can stare the challenge in the face and invent a way around it.”