Marcin Jakubowski * Building the World's First, Repicable, Open Source, Off-Grid, Global Village (was: [ox-en] Conference documentation)

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 :-( .


						Grüße

						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**

===========================  =============
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/