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Launch of Protei, oil spill cleaning open hardware sailing robot.

Protei-on-kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cesarminoru/protei-open-hardware-oil-spill-cleaning-sailing-ro

Dear fellows. We just launch yesterday Protei on Kickstarter. 
Please share the link to our Kickstarter on your facebook, or if you know people in 
- environmental justice
- sailing world
- DIY
- open-source
- engineering

Protei is a fleet of Sailing Drones, developed primarily to collect Oil Spills under Open Hardware licensing. An oil spill drifts down the wind, Protei sails upwind to collect the oil. Everyone is welcome to join, contribute, modify, produce, distribute the design and share their findings.

You can watch the 3 minutes video under to understand the detail of how it works :

The technology is really exciting beyond the fact that it could help for ocean study and cleaning. 
Have a lovely TED2011!

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Posted by Cesar Harada 

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Energy_Animal, concept for renewable hybrid generator

Dear Fellows, straight after TED Long Beach, I went back to playing in the water ; ) Thanks to all of you who advised making this video (in the credits) 


vimeo | youtube | facebook | dailymotion | HD .mov (160Mb)

Read the full report here if  you're curious. More data and a longer 15 minutes technical video will come up when I have more time.
 
We need a green energy revolution now.
  • Hybrid renewable energy
  • Recycled materials
  • Probiotic Impact
  • Distributed Intelligence
  • Lightweight & Reconfigurable 
  • Open-Source & Evolutionary
energyanimal.org
 
 

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Posted by Cesar Harada 

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