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RE: My love-hate relationship with my PhD Part 2 and my independent research on 3DPrinting

in #phd9 years ago

Yes, you need to do a deep dive into LCA and make sure it is region specific, or , normalized for input electricity generation type basket. One thing that I have noticed about 3D printing is the high electricity amounts needed. BUT, this needs to be baselined to a component that is traditionally manufactured. You could find a small specialist part studio and ask them to study their parts that are made (without 3D printing) and then 3D print some and check both LCA results. I guess, this result will be highly part type specific. So you need to figure that out too for a more generalist conclusion. Or just throw out the notion of even trying to be generalist. Anyway, that's like my 2 minute thoughts on this. I guess the goal is using less energy and promoting decentralized specialist manufacturing to make the decentralized economy stronger.

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Looks like we have someone here who do know about LCA!

One thing that I have noticed about 3D printing is the high electricity amounts needed. BUT, this needs to be baselined to a component that is traditionally manufactured.

This is in fact an important issue in the world of LCA. Will be writing a post on that :-) Watch out for it :-)