Seed Eco-Home Enterprise White Paper

With PV Solar Energy at 25 cents per watt, end dropping to 15 cents by 2030, humanity has reached a point where renewable energy is almost free. This makes the current, minimum, theoretical cost of solar hydrogen production 41 cents per kilogram - see logic at Hydrogen 101.

Based on this Minimum Cost Solar of 0.3 cents per kWhr, new opportunities arise for solving the last frontier of economics - Distribution. The relevance to OSE Work is housing, which can now include Zero Energy operation, and furthermore, include a Solar Hydrogen Filling Station, food production through an integrated landscape and Aquaponic Greenhouse, water generation from the rain and atmosphere, and digital fabrication as part of a fully decentralized production ecosystem of open, collaborative design. A large part of this concept involves creating a community of expanded consciousness which champions and demonstrates abundance economics through the discipline of integrated, open design.

For this to happen, OSE is pursuing several enterprise models for deploying the Seed Eco-Home package as above:

• Core Enterprise Model - 24 student cohort in a work-study program that is designed to be like college, without debt. The program involves custom homes and infill spec housing.
• SEH Solopreneurship - basic model with a crew leader and 4-6 workers as a replicable enterprise
• SEH Franchise - a 4 year program for running a franchise based on the Core Enterprise Model, setting the conditions for replicating lifelong learning opportunities at scale within the lifestyle engineering market of Productive Housing.