Alexander

Look for your local documentaries about wild animal rehab. Ones on Finnish main broadcast are awesome, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t translated except for Swedish.

Thanks!

Just another a bit of advice: remember to reeeeeally carefully inspect grants; in many cases (almost always - but not always, I had some luck there in the end) they require supporting paperwork and other stuff that would effectively require you to spend resources comparable to grant funds themselves just to handle grant issuing party relations. Or they steal the IP in the end. Grants are dangerous poison, for once you have a team writing reports in payroll and rely on grants, it’s very hard to drop this, and people would rebel, and firing someone because you are not applying for grants in near future is very hard and often too unethical to do.

Whoa, I’m in their shoes right now!

Ok, the shoes are uncomfortable af and have holes, but mine are clean! I’ve lived with this tech company for 4 or 5 years now, and I never ever stained myself with VS bullshit. I might go bankrupt this month, I had harsh betrayals and market fluctuations beating the shit from me. I’ve got store with sales that are just too slow. I’ve delayed salaries for almost a month (except mine, I haven’t made any money for myself this year lol). I still refused to go for all those investor traps and I’m proud of that. Worst case - I’ll just go bankrupt and start over!

With investments, you’ll never get out clean, without betraying yourself. There will always be compromises. And you won’t get very much richer in the end, it’s a game where those “bad guys” will inevitably burn you unless you’ll become one of them. The rich will get richer and you’ve participated in burning the world? Not cool.

I’ve been there. I had in my hands technologies that save the world. I had nuclear waste treatment technology tested in Fukushima. I had sub-10 nm lithography in 2014 (and we showed it to Intel in hopes they’ll just hire us back then). Investors never want to save the world, they want coke and whores and to burn us all. Decision makers will keep messing things up. Only grassroots are sustainable.

(please do come to my store buy some weird stuff before it’s gone and I’m losing everything and starting another company again: https://store.zymologia.fi/)

Gosh, this post and especially all the comments singing with unison to my dream cheered me up, I’ve got to go do something good now!

Those could be row boats too

99.999% uptime guarantee is a silly thing, once you realize that all things that have to be just available all the time - some health or security or manufacturing lines - get 10 minutes downtimes easily with all these fancy nines. It’s just some cliche to disempower us punks.

I have a powerful and ethical engineering team, I share your passions. If you can make it funded, we’ll achieve anything. Can you make this funded?

Yes and no. There are grades, variations of acidity and oxidative state of medium through the year. It’s heavy. It warps differently from everything else with temperature variation. Most of all, it is expensive.

I was also considering glass or clay overlapping tiles. Would be cool to cast huge ceramic panel, but it will crack, unless soil matrix holds it together. Shingles under sod might get roots growing through.

Another possible approach would be to allow leaks deliberately, then leave porous medium below the locking level with airflow access - so that any leaked water would be carried away with warmer air rising from habitation levels or even rhtough ventilation system or stove exhaust.

So much to study.

Or not well-designed. I’m sure someone like Mark Oehler could’ve figured something out. I don’t have much sod here in central Finland, unfortunately, to try something, neither did he I suppose. I still think of how to cover the roof in living grass though, this is perfect roofing material IMHO once we figure out how to fix leakage without resorting to plastic sheets that my grass seems to tear like they are not even there.