New Member - Chicken Poop and Zero Gravity Pens

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I'm "sort of" a Design Engineer (Associate Degree). 68 years old. Lifetime Surfer.
My last significant project was a 250,000 gallon biodigester for chicken poop. Western Academics said it couldn't be done so I had to go to Europe and China to get the experience and meet the people I needed.
I began 3d modeling (digital) in 1986, but have only been 3d printing for 3 years. I print pretty much everyday. Most of it involves my two current interests, Thermal Optics, and Hydrogen generation.
My two favorite quotes: A farmer once told me when I was a young man working on his farm, ... "Son not only do you not know the answers, you don't know the questions!" The other quote is unattributed - "NASA spent millions of dollars trying to invent a pen to write in zero gravity, ... the Russians sent their cosmonauts up with a pencil!"
Cheers,
Steven
 
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Welcome to PF Steven. I'm envious of your 3D printer.
 
Thanks!
I'm one of those who lost their original PF status in your site's Data problems. Thanks so much for the way you redirected those affected to get back online!

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@Greg Bernhardt will be delighted to hear that you are back again. The day that happened was a very bad day.
 
Nice to read "Western Academics" doesn't include Europeans :rolleyes:
:welcome: -- welcome back, I suppose (hadn't noticed "PF Data Problems" ?)
 
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oh heck no! Europeans have a completely different approach to innovation. The Welsh I worked with, had some amazing engineering approaches, and electronics. However their subsidies for energy production are so high, they could have made everything from gold and still profited. The Chinese have been doing bio-digesters for a long time, and had eloquently simple engineering... i.e. hydro-static storage of methane gas, so no gas pumps required.
I won't even get started on the monetizing of innovation In the U.S. Other than to say very little reaches the common good of the community...
PF cultivates what we need more of here in the States for sure! But I'm here to fill in my "nuts and bolts" blind spots in science and engineering.
You can read my profile to get a hint of my current project.
 
The New Member Introduction forum is for brief introductory posts only. I'll go ahead and close this Intro thread now. Thanks. :smile:
 

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