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Welcome to Warmland Environmental Technologies.
Don't wait for it to appear on the shelves at Walmart or on the GM show room floor, build it yourself right now!
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The Good Stuff.
Basically I want to be able to publicly license a technology and see a community of people building from publicly owned and shared plans. I imagine a minimalist set of rules designed to lay out basic building blocks or modular components such as can be interchanged between instances. By specifying only the space and interface required for a given unit great, variation in design can be realised.
First thing I'd like to build or propose to build is a Brushless DC motor for use in conventional car rims.
After Market Hybrid conversion Kit. Based on the BLDC (Brushless DC) motors being used by modeling enthusiasts. Pioneered in Germany and in use all around the world. The technology is public and shared freely. Most commonly referred to as 'Hub Motors' when used in vehicles, we are moving towards 'Rim Motors' to make use of the mechanical advantage of the greater moment arm generated by greater the displacement from the rotational axis from the point of application of force.This with a good super capacitor
Essential components
- hub - we are using a VW Golf hub in our first attempt. This and the size of the magnets we bought
- stators
- rotor/bell including magnets
- Controllers
- super capacitors
- batteries.
required specifications or fixed
Things that suck.
I have been pondering some questions for a long time now:-
Why do most electric cars suck? I don't want a car that goes only 60kph or has a range of less than 100km.
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Why can't I buy a plug in Prius? Seriously - for all that extra money all I really get is a petrol car with slightly better mileage than a conventional car.
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Is the Water for Gas thing a load of BS? Can I believe those guys who claim to be able to run their cars off of water?
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Why do natural buildings mostly only get built by hippies and ecovillages? There are very few, if any, cities and districts which recognize and permit you to build a home from natural materials.
Rather than wait for industry to build what people actually want I think we are going to have to build them ourselves.
- Hydrogen Jars
Some examples.
- TCP/IP was released to the public by DARPA and was founded the basis if the Internet as we know it today.
So what's the idea?
Basically I think that the whole Open Source and General Public License thing is pretty cool and ponder the possibilities raised by the Open Hardware License. Go and read about them. It's worth the read in my opinion.
In a nutshell, I believe it says that you can make and sell anything from OHL plans but you have to share not only those plans you used, but also your changes and additions, if any. You have to agree that what you added will be licensed under the OHL or else you don't get to use what they/we have.
As I see it, I don't need to own a technology to make a pretty good living building with it, and since I can't afford to employ a Research & Development team I figured I'd see if I could get enough people interested to help me get some things done. The phenomenal success of the collaborative and GPL licensed Linux operating system would seem to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, the validity of a collaborative economy.
It seems to me that by challenging assumptions that for a society to maintain healthy economic activity it is necessary to keep proprietary rights to knowledge, technological secrets, the OHL threatens the very underlying tenants of out modern economic paradigm.
