Seed Home v2 Future Work

The essence of the seed home project is inspiring public solving of pressing world issues. As such, we involve the public in:

1. Funding real R&D to solve housing
2. Development work towards more integrated solutions - Extreme Hackathons
3. Creating jobs - publishing all of our work as Distributive Enterprise, and providing training.

Development Path

It is clear to us that autonomous, energy and food-producing housing is the natural evolution of housing. Critical technologies to enable this include:

1. PV - already avialable at under 40 cents per watt
2. Electrical Energy storage - between smart home energy technology, smart refrigeration, wind power and battery backup - current technology allows for complete off-grid operation in housing at a cost actually lower than grid electricity. Typical payback times using OSE technology are on the order of 2-5 years compared to grid electricity.
3. Aquaponics and closed loop organic cycle - with biodigester, worm towers, fungi towers, and aquaponic towars, duckweed and azolla - completely closed loop waste cycles can be created where waste is converted to food and fertilizer, all within the area of a greenhouse. Think of an advanced system that does not send waste down the sewers - but instead is turned into lush greenery and food.

The above are immediate technologies to be implemented. Further, there is:

1. Saturated Water Storage - storing thermal energy for steam engines to release when the sun is not shining
2. Nickel Iron Batteries - this is the only sustainable battery known so far for energy storage
3. Solar Hydrogen - as fuel for night time power, vehicles, cars - burned in stainless steel, water-lubricated engines, and not in fuel cells. This is the holy grail of carbon-free energy.
4. Biomass pellets and charcoal - an appliance to make wood pellets for a wood pellet space-heating stove - from wood clippings, grass clippings, and paper waste. The byproduct of an advanced pellet stove could be charcoal pellets, which are also a fuel source for backup power.
5. Autonomous vehicles - for yard work, house cleaning, agriculture, utility, and delivery work. For example, pull a chicken tractor through your yard automatically, or deliver food for a Community Supported Agriculture operation using an autonomous, solar vehicle.
6. Automated Agriculture - Farmbot-related technology for growing food, with open source supply chain for producing these machines.
7. 3D Printing - for producing modular construction panels and lumber from the plastic waste stream