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From YouTube: Practical Post Scarcity: Open Source Solutions

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This is a well-made explanation of artificial material scarcity and how it can be addressed by open source economic development.

This is the core of Open Source Ecology's work on the Global Village Construction Set. Scenes in the video from hay baling onwards are the developments taking place at Factor e Farm in Missouri, USA. This is part of going the last mile on the construction toolkit part of the Global Village construction set.
This is the core of Open Source Ecology's work on the Global Village Construction Set. Scenes from hay baling onwards are developments taking place at Factor e Farm in Missouri, USA. This is part of going the last mile on the construction toolkit part of the Global Village construction set.

We are busy preparing the Civilization Starter Kit DVD. The latest need is professional fabrication drawings - the step beyond documenting the complete fabrication procedure. See sample fabrication drawing - a compact, information-packed format. Compare this to a sample fabrication procedure on the CEB press, which is much more expanded. We currently have complete 3D Cad of the CEB Press, and most of the Tractor and Pulverizer. The Power Cube is primarily in Sketchup.

If you can help us on the fabrication drawings, starting with the CEB press - let us know. We are looking for volunteers or paid professionals. The Kickstarter funding can be allocated for this purpose as needed. The timing is tight. While we will have full fabrication procedures, the professional fabrication drawings may not be generated by Christmas, in which case, they will be added as soon as they are generated.

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Scarcity based economy is the status quo of today because of the the way human relations have evolved. Not everybody is provided for there's a lot of suffering going on in the absolute abundance of resources, namely rocks sunlight plants, water from which all the wealth of the economy comes there. Distribution to humans is very much corrupted and there's material deprivation going on and all these fronts such that people are hungry or in poverty, resource conflicts exist and so forth.

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So post scarcity would be where we're connected more closely to the natural resources from where all the wealth comes by. The fact that we have the means the tools to to transform those resources into the feedstocks of modern civilization, open source ecology refers to the integration of human and natural ecosystems along the lines of open source principles. We say open source.

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That means open collaboration, open sharing of development and, ultimately, of economically significant information, we're developing the global village Construction Set as a means to show that one we can create a real community based on these technologies and achieve post scarcity. The global village Construction Set is a set of 50 different industrial machines that allow for the easy fabrication of all the different products that it takes to create a small civilization with modern comforts, everything from a tractor to a oven to a circuit maker tractors.

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Being such a fundamental device, access to them should be easy to make survival simple, so we've decided to build out of necessity, because our tractors, industrial tractors, that we bought kept on breaking. We built our own to first, do construction, in fact, and to do basic agriculture in an experiment of trying to recreate civilization from scratch. So we decided to build the most simple possible device, and to do that, you need a frame and we decided to use an XYZ construction type of a frame with both together members and put on a power unit.

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Initially, we didn't do a removable power unit. We did hide drugs because they're, versatile it and soon it turned out. Well, if we're gonna have a power unit, why don't? Why don't we design it such it can be interchangeable using our hyper modularity concept.

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The power cube is a modular power source. It's an example of a power source that can be interchanged between various applications, as opposed to be firmly attached to one device serving as a power source for one device. Its range of use is unlimited.

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The key to making it so versatile is that you're transmitting power from this power cube by means of hydraulics, which is hydraulic oil flowing in tubes, which therefore allows you to carry large amounts of power in a very flexible way by quick connect, couplers that plug in from the power cube into the device that you're powering currently we're using petrochemical hydraulic fluid because that's the only thing that's available on the market.

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Now there also is available canola oil, with additives as a as a bio hydraulic, fluid, and that's something we can grow on the farm here with our combine and oil expression and have locally made hydraulic fluid combined with the local production of hydraulic motors and and modern steam engines, you can have a total resilient infrastructure for producing power compressed earth. Brick presses that we call it The Liberator, as in liberating you from the main cost in your life, which is housing.

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If you have one of these machines, you can make bricks, which principle can suffice to build an entire house, including roofing and flooring compressed earth. Brick to my knowledge, is the only technique. That's that's. Rapid construction requires minimal equipment and can get you both natural and industrial scale building and it's driven by hydraulic power from a power cube. So you can stand a power cube alone.

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The basic design of the machine is is a compression frame, so you start with that frame, which basically is this part from here to there, and the rest is everything that supports that compression, so you've got the secondary cylinder that moves a drawer in and out to load soil you've got a huge hopper that can be loaded with a with a tractor.

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We are the only operation, our only see be pressing operation. That does this, which means and device that pulverize --is and loads. The soil. In one step, you use CC, be walls with straw bales in between that's a hybrid, see, B straw, bale construction. That to me, could perhaps be the next, the next generation of housing for Humanity, hab, lab 10 living unit arrangement, CC B walls, 3,000 square feet and straw, bail, roof and walls.

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This relates to the technology of the global village, Construction Set and nethers, a tractor salt pulverizer CB press power, cubes that are being used right now, as we speak, there's another technology, the gasifier burner. That's going into this structure, that's all all part of the technologies. Now you see a modern civilization, we have run away.

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The technology base has totally run away instead of our lives being more based on leisure time, where it can actually do things that are most meaningful and we can improve ourselves as people and learn to get along we're struggling on basic resource scarcities. Our technology is so complicated. It takes us so much time so much energy to maintain it that you're back to the dog race, we're trying to see if that's changeable, by reducing the technology, the most simple yet sufficient modular Lego, like people Tek imaginable,.

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