andrewrgross

That’s awesome to hear. Do you have any special techniques, like annealing? Maybe it’s just the consequence of my always buying bargain filament.

This is pretty impressive. It looks like they’re using PLA, though? That seems wild to me. I skipped around, so if he described using something else someone let me know.

I don’t know if other people have some kind of magic print settings that make PLA a durable, high-strength material that I’m not aware of, but tbh this looks like building a bike out of hot glue and cardboard. I think it can be done with high-end filaments, though, and the work overall looks solid, so I’m looking forward to seeing more of this project.

It looks great.

Wow, that’s a lot of food for thought.

I was aware conceptually that it’s really complicated, but where are the costs going? Is this due to labor costs? Material costs? something else? What makes it so expensive to build and to operate, especially compared to pipelines.

Why is DC power so much more expensive than pipelines?