Ashleigh Otto

We Create Jewelry Using A Machine That Concentrates Light To Melt Metal

Thanks for the info! This machine is a prototype mostly developed to get the computer code and algorithm. We may have an opportunity in the near future to partner with the Arconic Organization, and we are actively working on a bigger and better version that will be able to produce higher yields and lower the price point for the cast metal objects it makes. You are also 100% right about the lack of proprietary elements in the current machine, and for that reason we will actually be opensourcing this project in the next couple months so that anyone who wants to make one can download the plans and do it themselves. I also definitely understand where your skepicism comes from, there has been a lot of greenwashing happening in consumer products. It's especially frustrating for us to compete with the bs companies, who call themselves eco friendly by installing a couple solarpanels on their roof and using them to sell electricity back to the grid.

We Create Jewelry Using A Machine That Concentrates Light To Melt Metal

You're forgetting about the labor and development that went into the machine, you are only listing material costs of the finished product. I guess I'm just not understanding your definition of BS. This company only uses energy that it produces. It would be a poor use of our solar generating capacity to run a traditional forge and truly mass produce jewelry items at more than 1 pour at a time. If you personally don't believe in climate change or the fact that fossil fuels are limited and using them wastefully will come back to bite us via rising energy cost and lack of energy, then I can understand where you're coming from. Businesses everywhere have "bs" USPs, all depends on consumer perspective I suppose.