Quote Originally Posted by Feign View Post
I'm pretty sure in a disaster or famine situation, I would be perfectly comfortable just eating the emergency nutrition paste, no printer necessary.

3D printing need not be applied to every situation everywhere. Not that it's a bad thing to try applying it to every possible situation. That's kind of how evolution works after all, everything gets tried and sometimes something ends up being a genius idea which takes off like a rocket. But at the same time, the ideas that aren't so genius don't need to get the sympathy gold star.

Not that solar-powered 3D printing is a dead-in-the-water concept. That one guy with the sun-powered SLS printer that used the focused sunlight to melt sand into glass parts was really onto something... A shame I can't find that story again now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptUj8JRAYu8

it was markus kayser.
And yep the best 3d printer potential I've seen to date.

Using the sun to melt the material - that's proper solar power !