Canada Talk
From Open Source Ecology
- Tanks + Poland
- UW
- Useless
- Started a farm
- Learned about the economics of farming.
- Tractor broke
- Then said. Wait a minute. Let's solve the infrastructures of equipment, so everyone could benefit. Might as well open source all of the infrastructure on the planet, so GVCS was born.
- Prototyped. Milestones:
- Replicabiity
- Modularity - reuse to make things simple
- Build time - from months to days. Ironworker.
- One Day
- Sold some - 4 tractors in production
- Revenue model - workshops and enterprise.
- 3D P
- CEB
- House
- Greenhouse that can feed people fully. If you don't mind eating fish and vegetables every day - and mushrooms and fruits - then you can feed 2 people from only 800 sf.
- Wow - zero marginal cost!
- Incredible production - 5000 block in 8 hours
- 4000 board feet per day - sawmill
- Housing revenue model - 24 people, 5 days.
- Next - FreedomHouse - 2 months.
- What if you have equipment to build this house with - sawmill etc.
- Steel - 160 kg * 24 - 4 tons - 100kw -
- Wheat - small seeder and combine can plant and harvest 10 acres/hr. $5k in wheat, and $50k in bread. [1]
- 1 square mile - 10000 people - $18B. We're starting a country. Larger economy that the bottom 50 countries! Namibia, Botswana, Yemen,
- Shift from building technology to building enterprise to building people.
- Worldchanging program - Apprenticeship, Fellowship
- Let's talk about the inefficiencies? Machnes last 10 years. Bureaucracy, competition, etc.