Thursday, March 19, 2015

Liquid 3D printing might lead people to printing their own goods at home instead of buying them at stores

For this reason, lots of people have speculated that 3D printing could revolutionize manufacturing, or lead to people printing their own goods at home instead of buying them at stores. But so far, it's mostly been a niche process, used for prototypes, models, and other individually crafted items.
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In this sense this would be science fiction that we have seen in various movies and TV programs come to life. 

I think people might be "Allowed" to make their own items at home for one reason, "Nothing but raw materials would need to be shipped". And another useful reason might be: "Often people doing this are using electricity from solar panels or from Wind power on their properties.

So, even if someone was doing this and manufacturing things for the whole area and all their friends and associates in just one area, it would be more cost effective and use less energy than if something had to be packaged shipped and sent to a far distant location.

Instead I could see friends making things for friends or clients and either flying them to their houses with their small electric drone and leaving them on the porch like UPS or Fedex or another carrier does already, or just waiting for them to pick up the item at their convenience, or some people would just buy their own liquid 3D printer and buy the raw materials and make their own on the spot using solar cells to generate the electricity or from a windmill or water impeller from a stream or river going by like I saw in Nepal in remote (hike in only) hotels along a river there in the 1980s. They used this for lighting at night in the hotel.

 

 

 

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