Inventions

Video: Solar Sinter - Desert's Free Abundance of Sand and Sun into 3-D-Printed Glass

10-15-2011 • www.popsci.com

Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter project takes the desert’s two most abundant resources, sunlight and sand and puts them to work manufacturing glass objects. Kayser loads the sand into a solar-powered 3-D printer where it serves as the raw material for g