https://newatlas.com/technology/mobile-factory-convert-into-bricks/
"If there’s one thing wars are good at, it’s turning buildings into rubble. But
this mobile manufacturing machine does the reverse, turning rubble from
destroyed buildings into bricks – bricks which can be stacked and joined
together Lego-style to form mortarless structures. After years of development,
the first mobile brick factory is on its way to Ukraine to help rebuild housing
and infrastructure.
Western Australia is earning itself a reputation as a hotbed for brick-related
technology. The world’s fastest brick-laying construction robot that recently
landed in the US was developed by FBR in Perth, Western Australia, and now
Mobile Crisis Construction (MCC) has emerged from the other side of town. Just
like FBR, MCC has ambitions well beyond Australian shores. And given the state
of the world and the increasing rate of natural disasters, it should find no
shortage of uses.
Traveling in a 20-ft (6-m) standard shipping container, MCC’s mobile block
factory is small enough to be rapidly deployed to disaster areas or war zones,
ready to make use of rubble and waste materials in these locations. The factory
isn’t completely self-contained, requiring a diesel generator for power and a
freestanding hammer mill to crush the debris and waste into a fine powder that
is then fed into the machine, along with a small amount of cement and water. In
addition to rubble, other waste such as plastic bottles, glass and mine
tailings can be used."
Via Wayne Radinsky.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
