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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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