It is a worthy undertaking to redefine what we know as “materialism” in today’s culture. The word is so often associated with excess, waste, and possessing more stuff than the neighbors have. Keeping up with the Jones, or what not. …
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Bringing Materialism Back
Tagged with: capitalism, collapse, materialism, refrigeration, refrigerator, sustainability, sustainable
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Designing a Refrigerator at 55mph
I have purpose. Purpose is good. I’m building a refrigerator. The question I get asked most often is, “Why don’t you just go buy a refrigerator?”. They just don’t get it. I understand that it is an unusual hobby, but…
Tagged with: design, diy refrigerator, homemade refrigerator, HVAC, refrigeration, refrigerator
Posted in Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Modular Refrigerator Project Update- Part 2
See Part 1 Continuing with my project update. This is over several months of work beginning in the summer of 2016, and concluding at the present. For a while, I ran the machine with a glycol freezing evaporator and the…
Tagged with: diy refrigeration, glycol, HVAC, PCM, phase change material, propane refrigerant, R-290, r290, refrigeration, refrigerator
Posted in Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Modular Refrigerator Project Update- Part 1
Long overdue for an update, I have these backlogged photos of my journey towards building a better refrigerator, and I feel I need to get these published so I can pursue further writing. See Part 2 The last nine months…
Tagged with: appropriate technology, diy refrigeration, homemade refrigerator, HVAC, propane refrigerant, R-290, r290, refrigerator, vapor compression
Posted in Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Designed For The Unborn
Let it be known that I do not want to sell refrigerators, own patents, market products, or operate anything which could be construed as a business. That being said, a guy has to make a living, so that if I…
Tagged with: appropriate technology, capitalism, collapse, conservation, extinction, living small, minimalism, modular design, overshoot, refrigeration, refrigerator, resource depletion, tiny living
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
A Refrigerator For The Ages
Over the course of the next several years I will be illustrating a plan for a long lasting, modular refrigeration system which encompasses my values in the realm of design and simplicity. Here I will begin that process by trying…
Tagged with: diy refrigeration, modular design, planned obsolesence, refrigeration, refrigerator
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Design With Planned Integrity
It has taken me some years to find my path. I believe that were I born in a previous era, I would have found my way to the field of engineering, as that seems to be the my core interest: …
