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Positioning

• Introduction - frame it around the economy of access. Could start with TED Talk. A new civilization for $10k. Induction furnace + 3D printer, and we are good to go. $2k induction furnace. Scrap metal.
• 50 Machines – machine groups.

• Product groups + insights about other companies to give perspective. Such as hydrogen vs electric, biomass vs electric, solar tranisition (cheap PV), cars (the superefficient single commuter), batteries towards ZMCS - nickel iron?
• IoT Housing 2.0 – microfactory, energy plant, food production aquaponics in an energy/manufacturing/food production internet.
• Materials Production Facility – Biofuel + biomaterials and carbon negative concrete. Charcoal, insulation, bioplastic, semiconductors. Discuss zone refining of silicon. 8000 sf produces biofuel, concrete, steel, insulation, bricks, lumber, and semiconductors.
• Energy Internet – excess PV house or microfactory power goes to producing hydrogen. Compressed biogas runs cars. Nickel iron batteries are the Power Wall 2.0 based on lifetime design. insights on biomass vs electric vs hydrogen vs compressed methane
• Aquaponic Greenhouse – and Farmbot for seeding, Drones for planting, and last mile delivery of produce.
• Agriculture – ROS + heavy equipment
• Advanced - aluminum from clay and SiO2 sand to PV. Just needs some energy from the Open Source

• How to Get There

• Development Process + Extreme Recruiting

Abstract for Extreme Development chapter

Integrate all human knowledge on collaborative development and relate to OSE’s Extreme Development – Extreme Design and Build. Make a case for our work based on known techniques that are already known and prior literature:

• Wikipedia – unmanaged contributions improve themselves, a la Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
• Bold – crowd funding, crowd design, incentive prizes – HeroX, X Prize. MTP by Diamandis.
• Appropriate technology – Gandhi, Schumacher, Rifkin – Zero Marginal Cost Society (ZMCS)
• Flexible Manufacturing – Piore
• Rifkin – ZMCS, referring to Adam Smith et al on the Dilemma of Capitalism. Supported by 6Ds of Diamandis, but need some numbers to verify
• Kurzweil – Singularity when computer power overpowers
• Moore’s Law
• Law about doubling of installed PV reduces cost by 20%
• Modular, open source design – the latest in Product Development Literature
• Going from 13% to 40% overall energy efficiency – Rifkin
• Even Amazon admits that the future of its Fulfillment Centers will be Microfactories
• But open source, collaborative is key- as that can be the balancing force. Discuss fake open source – Tesla?
• Collaborative commons will eclipse Capitalism by 2050
• FabLabs – digital fabrication towards the open source microfactory. Many organizations have proposed the microfactory vision. However, their proprietary nature introduces competitive waste, such as the LocalMotors enterprise – which means it will deliver only a part of the zero marginal cost promise. Other efforts, such as OpenMotors – rel
• Aggregation platforms will survive, such as Uber, or Amazon logistics of same day product delivery. But rest will enter zero marginal cost regime.
• OSE Value Add – Extreme Builds – very efficient. Combines crowd build and digital fabrication

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