Full Belly Sheller / Phase-change Incubator

Hi folks!
1/2 billion people in the world rely on peanuts as a primary source of protein. Most people can only hand shell 3 pounds of peanuts an hour, but this open source machine can do 125 pounds an hour!

The Full Belly Project [www.fullbellyproject.org] designs simple agricultural machines and teaches people how to build a hand-operated nut sheller with common materials. Materials of choice is concrete because it is inexpensive, widely available, easy to work with and has a very long service life.

Thanks for your patience ....... here is the HWTS connection ........ CAWST and other organizations devoted to the biosand filter might find their particular concrete molding process interesting. Also I was pleasantly surprise to see that Amy Smith an MIT professor is associated with the project. Amy invented the phase-change incubator, a low-cost, low-maintenance device particularly useful for poor or remote communities when testing for microorganisms in water supplies. To learn more about the phase-change incubator email Amy: abs [at] mit [dot] com