@Deus @[email protected] The biggest importers of Indonesian palm oil is actually China and India. #Paperpulp exports, which are linked to even more #humanrights abuses, are almost all destined for #China.
btw I block #genocide deniers - doesn't matter if they're denying what's happening in #Gaza or #Tibet and #EastTurkistan / #Xinjiang, or elsewhere.
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https://videos.coletivos.org/videos/watch/cf26e823-f04c-4cb1-b733-abf5ac2ea919
I initially went to #Indonesia, back in 2011, because of the country’s troubling history with deforestation, driven primarily, historically, by demand for tropical commodities including #palmoil #paperpulp & #rubber.
In the past decade, as I’ve covered these issues for numerous outlet, much has changed. In some ways there has been real progress in increasing traceability and stemming deforestation, but at the same time, much of the supply chain remains opaque.
Charging Phones with the Power of Paper Pulp
Here it is, the most exciting reveal since the Hackaday Prize ceremony -- [Eric Strebel] uses the pulp mold he designed and built over the three previous videos. In case you missed our coverage so far, [Eric] set out to design an eco-friendly wireless charger that's meant to be disposable after six months to a year of use, and looks good doing it.
[Eric] started by cutting up a lot of cardboard and pulping it in a brand-new Oster blender that honestly looks to be pretty heavy duty. Pulping consists of blending the cardboard bits with water until a soupy chili-like consistency is reached. That blender lasted all of 20 minutes before breaking, so [Eric] promptly replaced it with a Ninja, which was way more up to the challenge of cardboard.
To do the actual molding, [Eric] mixed his pulpy chili with ~30 L of water in a tub big enough to accommodate the long brass mold. He dipped the mold to gather a layer of pulp and pulled it, and then pressed the wireless charger in place to create a pocket for it in the final, dried piece which he later replaced with an acrylic disk of the same diameter. [Eric] points out that a part like this would probably dry within ten minutes in an industrial setting. Even though he set it on top of a food dehydrator, it still took 4-5 hours to dry. Soup's on after the break.
This isn't [Eric]'s first wireless charger. A few years ago, he prototyped a swiveling version in urethane foam that does portrait or landscape.
#greenhacks #cardboard #cardboardpulp #paperpulp #pulpmold #wirelesscharger
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