{"id":1613,"date":"2013-05-05T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2013-05-05T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T19:04:29","slug":"cleantechnica-article-chemputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/cleantechnica-article-chemputer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleantechnica Article – Chemputer"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was published on cleantechnica.com months back. I did not realize it was not here until someone pointed it out…………<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently a 3D printer called a \u201cchemputer<\/a>\u201d was announced. The headline\u00a0read: \u201cResearchers developing \u2018chemputer\u2019 that prints drugs.\u201d This\u00a0device, if modified, has very serious potential for disruptive change.<\/p>\n

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With one of these modified chemputers, you have the ability to create\u00a0any chemical compound you wish in less than a day. With several\u00a0hundred of them, you have the ability to order a custom chemical, queue\u00a0it for manufacture and later use. This is where things get interesting\u00a0and science advances very quickly.<\/p>\n

Imagine a researcher working on polymer (plastic) solar cells and having\u00a0access to this technology. Before he had access to this technology, he was\u00a0testing several samples a week. Now, his lab is upgraded to include a\u00a0rack mount with one thousand chemputers, and a reel-to-reel unit for\u00a0printing and testing polymer solar cells, after which the number of\u00a0samples he can test skyrockets.<\/p>\n

In a day, he can test several thousand possible cell designs. In a\u00a0month, tens of thousands. And in a year, several hundred thousand. With\u00a0evolutionary software helping with the design process, it would not be\u00a0long before solar cells became extremely cheap and extremely\u00a0efficient. The current yearly increases in efficiency and reduction in\u00a0cost would become something that could happen weekly.<\/p>\n

Now, lets go to the lab next door where the researcher is designing new\u00a0batteries for energy storage\u2026.\u00a0\":)\"<\/p>\n

David Fuchs<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0a geek and builder of things. He\u2019s a classically trained engineer and programmer involved in open source, software, and hardware. He\u2019s interested in 3D printing and nanotechnology, predicting the future of technology, and low-cost power production in 3rd world nations using material at hand.<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published on Cleantechnica.com<\/p>\n

http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2012\/09\/09\/chemputer\/#l7qZRxYz7aWtgb38.99<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was published on cleantechnica.com months back. I did not realize it was not here until someone pointed it out………… Recently a 3D printer called a \u201cchemputer\u201d was announced. The headline\u00a0read: \u201cResearchers developing \u2018chemputer\u2019 that prints drugs.\u201d This\u00a0device, if modified, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1617,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hephaestusproject.com\/Energy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}