Lifetime Design Power Tools

Tools of the trade make the economy run. Currently, professional warranties are 2000 hours or 2 years for commercial mower, Bobcat skid loader, or John Deere tractor. Dewalt cordless drills come with a 3 year warranty [1], 5 years for a Maytag washer [2], and 5 years/100k miles for RAM diesel trucks [3]

This means that you can say bye bye to your consumer or commercial machine or good anywhere between 2 and 5 years.

The value lost here is tremendous. The global cordless tools market alone is more than $20B. Right here, if tools were built for repair and improvement over their life - then people would be saving $20B on cordless tools yearly: the savings compound year after year. Cordless tools would no longer last only 3 years.

Add cars, and that is another $4T [4]. Trillion. Another $100B for heavy equipment [5], and amazon ($1/2T) [6] + walmart (1/2T) [7] - you've got a few trillion that disappear every few years - ending up in landfills.

Think about Amazon - the number of China goods out there that break after days or months of use. That is effectively legal larceny that occurs for most electronics, consumer appliances, etc. Average cell phones last 2.5 years. Wow.

This is critical for an org like OSE which makes many purchases for its workshop and day to day operations in civilization reconstruction - only to see a significant portion of its acquisitions worthless once they break.

The simple solution is lifetime design. Ease to take apart, easy to replace parts, and easy to modify via modularity and product ecologies that are never thrown out, and once done, are remelted or reprocessed to virgin metal, plastic, or ceramic.