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Podcast interview about Buckminster Fuller [62 min] (Patreon)

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2019-08-08 23:27:55
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I was interviewed by podcast Utopian Horizons about the life and work of Buckminster Fuller, who I profiled in my Energy Slaves comic. I discussed his utopian vision of a future, as well as his host of inventions such as the geodesic dome and three-wheeled Dymaxion Vehicle.

It was nice to reflect on Bucky, a man who I studied intensively during 2012-14. The chat has actually inspired me to do more Buckminster Fuller-related work in the future.

Listen to the podcast via this link: https://soundcloud.com/user-494053335/buckminster-fuller-w-stuart-mcmillen

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Buckminster Fuller w/ Stuart McMillen by Utopian Horizons

Cartoonist Stuart McMillen joins the podcast to talk about "the Leonardo Da Vinci of the twentieth century", the fascinating Buckminster Fuller. We discuss his utopian world view, his penchant for creating new terminology, his designs and inventions, both functional and fantastic. Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia.

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Energytheory

nice news! ... And maybe you can add a comment somewhere that in his files he made a mistake in calculating the energy slave power.

Energytheory

A citation from his work: An “energy slave” is determined as follows: In addition to the energy spent from his metabolic income in “working” his own body, one man in one 8 hour day can do approximately 150,000 foot pounds of work. A foot pound of work equals the itmount of energy required to lift one pound one foot vertically. ‘this additional work might be called net advantage-in dealing with environment. The “net advantage” potentially to be gained by each human each year, working 8 hours each of 250 days per year, is 37 1/2 million foot pounds." Source: http://challenge.bfi.org/sites/challenge.bfi.org/files/pdf_files/pdf%20files/wdsd_phase1_doc1.pdf (Page 29 in the Original document, page 50 in the pdf file), He states that one man works in 8 hours the amount of 150.000 foot pound. But that is - I think - wrong with a factor of ten. It should be 1.500.000 foot pound. A recalculation: 150.000 foot pound is the expression of ONLY 56 watt hours work - for the total 8 hours, which means it is only a physical work of only 7 watt each hour. 7 Watt is the energy a small light bulb of a bicycle consumes. That is far too low as the average working power of an average worker. My calculation is, that a normal human can do physical work of 75 Watt hours in an hour, which is 600 Watt hours a day.