Marcin Jakubowski * Building the World's First, Repicable, Open Source, Off-Grid, Global Village (was: [ox-en] Conference documentation)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:34:46 +0200
Hi list!
Below is the transcription of Marcin's talk. The also included PDF
consists of images of text only - so I had to type if myself :-( .
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Stefan
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Building the World's First, Repicable, Open Source, Off-Grid, Global Village
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:Author: Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.
:Organization: Open Source Ecology
We Propose the Global Village Construction Set
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* Productive tools for a new civilization and economy
* Old civilization has failed, needs re-engineering
* Infrastructure that you all use, directly or indirectly
* Obvious items essential to a productive economy
* Particular implementations selected by a *metric score*
* Economic importance, robustness, localization, ecology, and
replicability
* Liberatory, productive, local, post-industrial, limited but
sufficient set
* Product Selection Metric in OSE Proposal of 2008
* If you have substitutions, score them and let us know
Here are Things That You Use Directly or Indirectly
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* Car
* Tractor
* Combine
* Dairy
* Orchard
* Sawmill
* CNC Multimachine
* Induction Furnace
* Pyrolysis Oil
* Solar Power Generator
* 3D Printer, Micromill
* Steam Engine
* MIG Welder
Set doesn't produce microcircuits and metal
Infrastructure Set Sufficient for Creating Advanced Civilization
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* Housing and Construction
* Local Food Systems
* Mobility
* Implements
* Solar Energy
* Personal Fabrication
So You Want to Build a Village?
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* Here is the construction set
* It's a 41 piece set
* Why?
* Because *you* can
You Might Want to Start by Building a Whole Economy
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* Agriculture
* Housing
* Energy
* Fuel
* Transportation
* Technology
Food infrastructure
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[see slide 7]
Housing infrastructure
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[see slide 8]
Power Infrastructure
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[see slide 9]
Fabrication Doable in Your Garage or Village
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* MultiMachine
* CNS milling, drilling, lathing
* HydraRaptor
* RepRap 3D printer in plastic plus microdrill and micromill for
circuits
* HydraTable
* torch, plasma cutter, and router CNC table, plus other heads
* Torch Table
* MIG Welder
* Plasma Cutter
* Induction Furnace
* flexible melter for metal, also for case hardening, extrusion
* Casting
* Hot Rolling
* Cold Rolling
* Forging
GVCS Has Several Unique Features
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* Self-replicability via Fab (and Ag)
* Closing of the industrial divide
* *recasting* a new civilization
* Extreme modularity: example of Hydraulic Motor and Power Cube
* Nonstandard system optimization: hydraulic motor, steam engine
* GCVS is 100% Solar Powered, 100% locally producible
* Design for Dissassembly = Life Time Design
We are Engaged Actively in Building the Construction Set
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* Tractor, CEB, tiller, backhoe prototypes and field testing - done
* Sample building - done
* Active agriculture
* On the drawing board: Sawmill, Micro Trac, Multimachine, Torch Table
Building action
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[see slide 13]
Other Action at Factor e Farm
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[see slide 14]
Our Next Challenge: Product
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* CEB Press production is our first full Product Cycle up to Product
Release
* Needs Soil Pulverizer for soil preparation and Micro Trac for power
At Cost Production is a Default Open Source Economic Model
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* We're testing economics of *At Cost Production*
* Workshop paid for by crowds
* We give back by producing *at cost* - materials and labor
* Mainstreamable - because of cost effectiveness
* Transformative - P2P called this the *'most important social
experiment in the world'*
* One of few growing enterprises in Depression
CEB Press is First Test Case and Entire Set is Sufficient to Create an Economy
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* Set focuses on *tools of production*
* Set is a money system
* Currency is backed by transparent documentation of productive
capacity
Economic Analysis Without GVCS for a 30 Person Community
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* 100% self-sufficient agriculture base requires $3k/person
* table found at Perennial Agriculture [#]_
.. [#] under Title=..., on the OSE Wiki
* Propagation / plantout of edible landscape takes one half human year
if appropriate equipment is available - total of $50k at $50/hour
* found at Edible Landscape Creation Economics
* Builiding construction takes one half year with optimized equipment,
4 people, for $200k at $50/hour
* greenhouse and cluster village is included
* based on Factor e Farm experience with CEB
* Value of equipment is required - $250k
* found on LifeTrac Economic Analysis
* Off-grid electricity - $3k/person, conservative
* $10/W installed costs for PV
* Fab Lab - $150k value
* found at OS Fab Lab Economic Analysis
**=> About $83k required for startup, plus land costs**
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Item Days required
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nursery propagation 30
chicken house and fencing 5
rabbit hutch 2
goat fencing 7
100 trees planted per day 30
4 raised beds per day 75
digging a well 14
swaling and ponds 15
1000 sq foot greenhouse 30
lumber milling w/2 people 30
brick pressing w/2 people 30
building w/4 people 90
TOTAL 358
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Economic Analysis with GVCS for a 30 Person Community
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* Immersion for 2 years at Factor e Farm, $10k/year tuition
* Tuition and materials may be reimbursed by apprentice production
* Agriculture base, self-propagated during study
* Plantout occurs in a matter of 2 weeks per person
* DIY Building construction takes 90 days including lumber/brick
preparation, with optimized equipment
* Heavy equipment Produced at $5k total cost, Fab Lab at $1k
* Assumes induction furnace and full fab lab at Factor e Farm
* Melting 50k lb of steel takes 3 weeks, 10 cents/lb scrap cost
* Equipment produced as part of apprenticeship
* Time for completion of a Village infrastructure is under 1 year per
person
* See *30 Person Village Startup with GVCS* on wiki
**=> Replication of Global Village Can happen entirely based on sweat equity**
Land is the Most Important Issue
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* Economic power allows easy long term, lease-to-own arrangements
* Collaboration with others based on sustainability interests is a
good idea
* Acquiring new land with friends is a good idea
* Applications to unsettled land and regeneration of 'developed' land
* Stabilization of population is a spinoff from regenerative land use
* OSE principles call for preserving land for all future generations
in NGOs and private trusts with *'structural governance'*
GVCS is a Social Technology, not Hardware Technology
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* Technology is all 'out there', it's about creating access
* Present strategy
* Open Source Design Rationale
* Review / Bid
* Fund
* Deploy and document
* No one has cracked the collaborative hardware development nut yet
* Bids are a good strategy (such as in Open Music), but careful
analysis is required to come up with a bid
Open Source Design Rationale (OSDR) is Defined
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[see slide 22]
OSDR Standards aim at Quality Content
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* OSE Specifications for guiding design principles
* Red Pages for development support
* Full explanation of relevant details
* Diagrams / descriptions can be extended to 3D design
* 3D cdesign annotated with BOM
* BOM spreadsheet available
* Fabrication procedure is outlined
* Resource map lists developers, reviewers, fabricators, consultants,
etc.
* Funding via open proposals writing, via OSDR content
* Status should be transparent by viewing OSDR content
GVCS is Transformative on Manyx Fronts
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* *At-cost* production
* Closing the industrial divide
* Local fuels, local unjobs, local economy option
* GVCS completed is an economy, a bank, a currency
* Buying out at the bottom, being part of solution, not problems
Summary
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* GVCS indicates promise of unprecedented quality of life
* lifestyle engineering program
* Next major step is going into production, completing full product
cycle
* CEB press
* Encouraging technical results show that technology is easier than
social technology:
* collaborative platform
* attention span
* 90% problem
* skilled Dream Team 30
* We need to explain our work more clearly and engage investors more
effectively
http://openfarmtech.org/
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