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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Really cool, but as someone who has a job it seems like the cost savings of this is lower than working overtime and buying chicken feed.

As someone who used to not have a job I couldn't afford the equipment to begin with.

But I really appreciate that there are pioneers pushing this technology forward so that one day it will become cheap enough to justify putting it to use.

I imagine if you have money, and are trying to go live off grid in a sustainable way this could be useful because you can't store grain forever and growing livestock feed this way is a long term solution.

There are other ways to gather feed depending on where your homestead is that may be more economical, but if he can figure out how to get bioplastics out of it that can be used in a 3d printer that would be huge.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah exactly, it's uneconomical at the moment, but this is the kind of research that can make something economical. Once someone figures out a good system to do this, it's off to the races.

I was wondering if maybe he could just replace all the plastic cylinders with clear plastic tubing, that'd save a lot of work.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

neat project