OSE Whitepaper on the Open Source Economy

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  • Lifetime design produces 10x value for example when something lasts 5 years versus 50 years such as a skid steer
  • In production, technological recursion allows 50% cost reduction by substituting open knowhow for purchased goods.
  • For production cost of design is open and social production is used, then the resulting price is is perhaps 1/3 to 1/5 of the cost if we use open design
  • In a universal basic asset and fresh structure, the cost to produce materials from the waste stream is about five times lower than virgin stock.
  • Digital fabrication yields production at zero marginal cost over the value of the materials themselves . This is under the assumption of efficient, optimized design
  • With a construction set approach for product ecologies we can further expand the usability of products by factor of 5 or 10
  • This is not to count financing and other financial parasitism
  • The above add up to about a thousand x performance to cost improvement, indicating scalable prosperity

Applications

  • The supplies the feasibility of experimental prototype communities of tomorrow, on the scale of 10,000 people, on the size of an acre
  • Observed for billion dollar per community productivity, exceeding the economies of small countries
  • The top 10,000 factor is the enabler here
  • Zero marginal cost of photovoltaics is an enabler, which can further be reduced to about 10 cents per watt
  • Population of 10,000 is assumed sufficient to provide all the technological and social advancement of civilization
  • GVCS productivity can be established at approximately $5k/day forany of the core machines for producing materials (rock, biomass, ceramic, concrete, steel, plastic, fuels, foodstuffs, glass, fiber, and other core drivers of civilization)
  • Farm yields per acre range from $200 for corn and soybeans to $1B/acre for semiconductors. Mutually assured abundance is inevitable, if we solve for the scarcity mindset

Detes

  • Dirt hikes, thermal batteries, and biodigester solve the renewable energy puzzle