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Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D.
Open Source Ecology
10.19.2010
Presented at Open Up
Seattle, Washington USA
Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D. - Open Source Ecology 10.19.10 -http://openfarmtech.org/w
Reaching Post-Scarcity Escape VelocBuilding the World's First, Open Source,
Replicable, Resilient Community
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Introduction
What if we took all that civilization has learned to date and
applied it to an experiment for making a better world? Miniaturization of Civilization: a unique opportunity for post-
scarcity living, resilient communities, autonomy on a small
scale Technology makes living from local resources possible and
indeed makes it trivial to do so Let's get the world right
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Basic Necessities are Covered by
Abundant Resources
There are 6 ways to die: too cold, too hot, thirst,
hunger, illness, injury Food, energy, housing, etc., come from the earth and
sun Conversion occurs via information and tools
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Energy Abundance Means Material
Prosperity
Ubiquitous clay smelt aluminum Also known as advanced civilization
Ubiquitous sand refine silicon
Also known as the digital age
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Technology is Advanced and Its
Development is Accelerating
Star Trek Replicator is here Example: 3D Printing
Download from afar Print locally
Mini-China on your desktop
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Resilient Community Construction Set (RCCS Small subset of tools sufficient for building advanced civilization Includes cars, tractors, machinery, power generation, adaptable digital fab Self-replicating: agroecology and technology
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LifeTrac Prototype II
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Soil Pulverizer Prototype II
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150 Ton Hole Puncher Prototype I
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The Liberator
Full Product Release
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Proposed Workshop Uses Modular CEB Constructio
Proposed Living Units Use Modular
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Proposed Living Units Use Modular
CEB Construction
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Open Business Models Work
RepRap factor of 30 cost reduction The LiberatorCEB Press 10-20 times
$2500 in materials Producer captures value of information and
labor
Economics of post-scarcity?
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Post-Scarcity Means Replacing Scarce
Resources with Ubiquitous Resources
Real goods for meeting real needs Ex. Advanced construction from
soil below the building site
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We Are Interested in Building Resilient
Communities
Replicable Viral Village Resource-based economy
Population explosion is unlikely due to direct resourc
feedback
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Resource Based Economy (RBE) Means
Using Available Resources Directly
RBE rocesses natural resources with
unleashed information and technology Real economy not funnymoney Requirement competitiveness with
mainstream production
Post-Scarcity Lifestyle Requires no
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Post-Scarcity Lifestyle Requires no
Compromise on Quality of Life Unleashed info/tech anyone can produce
anything anywhere no doomsday scenarios Neosubsistenceoption producing for your
needs or trading in outside markets Rapid learning and technology generalist skill Lifetime designequipment is required your tools
of sustenance can't be built to break down Industry 2.0 with global design and
local fab Autonomyfor you and me
RepLab is the Open Source Fab Lab
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RepLab is the Open Source Fab Laband a Universal Constructor
Make just about anythingon a small scale
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General Systems Theory Leads to
Integrated Humans
Do people want to become integrated humans? Can we reconnectto ourselves, others, nature? Transformation of nature to meet needs is a deep
form of reconnection
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Join Us in This Development
Become a developer of this work, in a
research and development lifestyle No more mindless teeth on one of the
many gears of the soul-crunchingmachine
It C t Milli t Li
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It Costs a Million to Live
Business-as-Usual (BAU): Mosthuman energy is spent on coverincosts of living
Myth of technology: ever-advancetechnology = ever-less free time
$12.8k per year: housing-food-car
$21k per year: including all else
It Costs $20k to Start up a Resilient
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It Costs $20k to Start up a ResilientCommunity with the GVCS
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GVCS is a Basic Set of Building Blocks
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Maintenance costs remaina big challenge
Business-as-Usual Cost is Much Greater
$892k Startup Cost Can be Eliminated
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$892k Startup Cost Can be Eliminated
with Access to the GVCS
Assumption: skilled people are a prerequisite
Start with immersion training for participants
Generalist post-secondary training
Open Source Agroecology Digital Fabrication
Applied science, engineering, economics, and law
Free based on available documentation
Immersion training at OSE facilities 2 year program
Equivalent of college education except for practical skills
E h C t M B Di l d ith th GVCS
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Each Cost May Be Displaced with the GVCS Can the cost go to zero?
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The Last Frontier is Completion of RepLab(GVCS III)
GVCS has 3 levels: GVCS I Gross machines; Workshop I + CNC: Torch Table, Mill, Lathe
GVCS II Components; Induction Furnace + advanced CNC
GVCS III Materials; all of above + open sourced industrial system
GVCS III: 2000 sq ft silicate foundry
10-100 tons of metals produced per day from rocks
Desktop semiconductor foundry
Digital age created on your tabletop
Other materials
Rubber from dandelion resin
Glass, ceramics
Polymers chemicals
P it Q ti B il D t
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Prosperity Qeustion Boils Down toAccess to Energy
Baseline: 1000W/sq meter comes from the sun
Average per capita use in the USA is 400W-electric
Reality: FeF grass yield is 4000 lb of dry biomass per acre per year, orequivalent of 500 gallons of fuel
If burned with 16% efficiency, one acre suffices to meet present electricity needsfor one person
Is this enough for car transportation?
Yes, if you could limit your travels from SF to NYC to only 8 times per year in a50 mpg car (24,000 miles).
Add solar turbine 2.5% continuous efficiency of conversion from solarto electric energy, counting nights and bad weather
16 square meters are then required to produce all your energy
Advanced material civilization can be produced on the local scaleusing local energy
Our Goal is to Bootstrap to a World Class
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pResearch and Development Center for OSE Robust production workshop for 4 fabricators can yield
$16-80k per month $1k-$5k/person/week earning opportunity building essential tool
W A Pl i M d l CEB C t ti
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We Are Planning Modular CEB Construction
CEB construction infrastructure for Dedicated
Project Visits
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Summary
We have demonstrated beginnings of: Replicable toolset for post-scarcity, resilient communitie Open source enterprise model of production Replication cost reduction to zero
We're looking for co-developers Recruiting on-site team for 2011:
Farmer Scientist
4 Digital Fabricators 2 Organizers/Developers/Documentors
Earnings via production: the revolution shall be funded
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Support This Important Work
Become a True Fanat $10/month for 2 years Go into the deep end and join us on-site Autonomy, full freedom, no compromise
Stary a new system, as this one is broken Evolve to freedom
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