IFWMS-Kiehl2009Archive
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About the Collection
This archive is a collection of diagrams about the concept of the Integrated Food and Waste Management System (IFWMS. They were created in 2009-2010 by OSE contributor Rasmus Kiehl while he was putting together a variety of pages on the OSE Wiki. The collection has been archived here for further development.
- the material is all handwritten. If something is not legible, contact Rasmus Kiehl for clarification
- The way the diagrams are organized is that for each of them, one particular component is “in the spotlight” and others are peripheral. The interconnections of energy and resource flows are shown mostly as arrows.
- For portability, the material has also been turned into a single .pdf file: http://opensourceecology.org/w/images/7/73/IFWMS-Kiehl2009Archive_-_all_diagrams.pdf
Purpose of this archive
- archiving and availability of this information
- for others to learn and develop IFWMS science and product ecology
- use of these diagrams in handbooks or textbooks about the IFWMS
- Future development of this material: specific tasks, see below
- Future extension: various new components
Future disposition of this material: project
- graphic improvement needed
- open public discussion, improvement, additional components (again: “spotlight approach”)
- improve on interconnections: instead of just arrows or lines connecting them, there can be specific “qualities” associated with them, e.g. colors to indicate whether something is an energy flow, a resource flow (e.g. chemical or nutrient), a financial flow, etc.
- serve as the basis to begin using modeling approaches for the integrated farm
- Future “in silico models” of energy and resource flows: before such an integrated farm is even set up, it could be modeled, and those models could be tested in the real world. Various “in silico farm” iterations until a realistic, workable final iteration is achieved. Then the farm can be built in the most efficient way possible, with minimal [losses] of time, financial resources and effort.