Headed to Center Camp for espresso then tried to get over to the steam bath again but the line was enormous and by then it was getting on for midday.
I had interviews lined up with the crew from Mechabolic, which was an amazing project to build a 110-foot long machine that ate trash and fuelled itself. Its mouth was a woodchipper, its molars another, smaller woodchipper and a government paper shredder, its lungs an air intake array for its V8 engine. In its guts sat three gasifiers, turning waste into bio-diesel, and sending some of it to the V8 for motion, some to a Lister engine and to a generator for electric lights and some straight to metal flowers arrayed above it. Its bowels gently dusted charcoal onto planter boxes that also drank waste water. In the end, the monster only moved 69 feet, but it worked.
I absolutely loved the women who were working on it. You go, grrls!
One of the better pictures I found of this comes from Wired, of course. This is the day before…