Some people are making a GECK, for real. Not fancy, though.

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Some people are making a GECK, for real. Not fancy, though.

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It is called the GVCS.

Close enough to GECK.
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.

The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that can create entire economies...
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It is on Kickstarter, and there is a "TED Talk".

Old news, I just assumed people knew about it.

Then I checked, and no. At least search turned up no post.
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Not been here in months. *One* good post. :chew:
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Apparently energy-excreting microbes are going to be a big thing in energy production. I understand that moss/plankton is also becoming big in energy generation and there are numerous breakthroughs with fungi/mycelium as construction and insulation materials.

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Manoil wrote:Apparently energy-excreting microbes are going to be a big thing in energy production. I understand that moss/plankton is also becoming big in energy generation and there are numerous breakthroughs with fungi/mycelium as construction and insulation materials.

If posting science articles weren't so awkward on here, I'd put that shit out much more often
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