Archive for September, 2011

Currency and industrial backing

This blog is mostly for fun since we will not need or be able to have our own currency for a long time, but hey fun is still fun. Currency is a medium of trade and as such it needs a few things to be successful: 1. Stability. 2. Forgery protection. 3. Plenty enough to [...]

Construction update

Okay so rather than blogging so much I chose to do some welding. I have found that by slanting the flat soldering device I was able to weld two overlapping plates together. Initially we did not think this was possible as we used a wrong technique. This may sound small, but learning such things is [...]

Intellectual property and the patent system

Language, sharing and modern communication technology are all great inventions. They allow us to share knowledge, so that we don’t all have to invent the same things over and over again. It has been said by many that indeed our language and ability to communicate knowledge so easily is the defining trait of humankind. However [...]

Danish election!!! Valg!!!

Remember to vote people, the election is this Thursday 15. September 2011! You need to bring your voting card and you can only vote between 09:00 and 20:00 (check your own card times though) – don’t be late the entire country depends on you! Now I’m not going to tell you who to vote for, [...]

Weekly blog – “Flydende By”-/”Floating City”-movement

So while I was still having jet lag, should have done homework and only a day after doing the early HDPE tests we visited a Danish seasteading community. Yeah, I was surprised we had that too, honestly, Denmark is doing too much. It is possible that we will work together sometime in the future, once [...]

Preliminary tests

We’re back to building! … Or testing at least. After Realpra came home from the Philippines after a month, we tested the HDPE material we’ve been talking about yesterday. HDPE is the material we wish to build our seasteads from. The idea is to build a disc seastead or discstead, made with a HDPE shell [...]