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More posts: http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2160
Please chip in at http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=2136 and share in your networks. Thanks!
We've been making good progress on the Economy
in a Box - the infrastructure tools for post-scarcity, resilient
communities. Our work focuses on the integration of flexible
fabrication with resilient communities. Subsilience is the
result: the combi…
Friends,Here are some of our updates:
Economy in a Box Presentation - latest on our theory and practice
Juliet Schor discussing our work in her book, Plenitude
Open Source Tractor prototype II beginnings
3 minute video on Factor e Farm and The Liber…
RepTab, the open source CNC torch table, a distant cousin of RepRap, has been featured in MAKE zine. Please check it out:
http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=1424
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Marcin
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- At 4:32am on March 8, 2009,
Amatul said… - hey Brother Marcin - The King! the King!, this center we are at in NC, the lead man knows TONS about plumbing, and he wants to build a cordwood sauna. Interested in a Brain-share?
love
Amma
- At 9:33am on November 23, 2008,
David Matos said… - Hi Marcin
My skype account is thermoenergetics
David
- At 12:46am on November 23, 2008,
David Matos said…
- Hi Marcin:
Congratulations on your work, it is magnificent.
I have a proposal that is for you to orient the global village project to a specific place where it is needed and that with the new century evolution has the conditions to rebuilt and start development implementing new sustained concepts.
I am proposing an Angola Open Source, as a project at Open Source Ecology.
I believe that we should take advantage of the existing resources to build a sustainable society.
I am proposing a open innovation, too, because I think that we can have higher participation if we give incentives. Please give me your opinion on this.
Angola was in war for 45 years.
To the Angolans, where given first slavery and then colonialism up to the independence, win by the gun, in 1975.
After independence, first was the excuse of the cold war, then the blood diamonds war, and again the only thing that were given to them was guns and war.
To keep them alive, for the continuation of the war and to have quasi-slavery labour work in the mining, were given humanitarian food aid.
Against the will of some international interests and corporations, President Dos Santos made piece in 2002 wining military against the rebels.
Once again the Occident turns their backs and did not forgive the international debt of around 10B Usd.
China and Brazil where the first to finance, and a package of 15B Usd was loan, for the National reconstruction.
Now everybody is investing in Angola and last year we had a grow of 21%.
In three years we paved 3000 miles of roads, 1200 miles of railroads, hospitals, and schools, (more than during all colonial period),
We paid our debt and have reserves over 30B.
We lack housing, 80% lives in block or wood houses, without conditions or infrastructures as electricity, water or sewer.
We lack education but 40% reads.
We have around 100.000 educated people, mostly in good international Universities.
The persons that are governing are oriented for personal interests
Corruption is high and tolerated, (corruption is bad when the money stays in international banks, profiting only the Bank owners), because they are investing their money in Angola, which is good because is creating an upper class that is necessary to own the investments that are done by the State.
Upper class exists everywhere, and ours, own big corporations and companies that benefit from the production of 2 billion barrels day of crude oil and from the diamond mining, that will be the 1st world producer by 2012.
President is fighting corruption, and investing in the reconstruction.
We were completely destroyed, imagine a country without anything.
We call it “Angola, a garden of construction”. We see development everywhere.
We went from 50.000 cellular phone users in 2002 to 5 million in 2008, and we are only 16 million people.
The problem is that investment is being done by international companies that are not sustaining their projects. Charging a lot of money and doing poor work. The government does not mind because they are getting richer.
Agriculture and construction materials factories, food transformation factories, steel siderurgy, LNG plant, oil refinery, etc are part of the industrial parks that are being built around the country, with more than 200 projects.
We are truly developing and the government has a program to build 1 million houses in the next 4 years.
You can see Angola, at Google Earth.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=702740
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=329829
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
The big problem is that we are not creating the conditions to make a middle class that is very small actually.
I have a plan to help a sustainable developing of my country. I talk with some people but without a good presentation is difficult to make then understand.
My proposal is to make first a good graphics presentation of my idea and I have means to show to the President Dos Santos, a man that really cares and is whiling to transform
Angola.
He is open to sustained proposals to help his people to develop.
My dream:
Africans have oral tradition. They only did get alphabetized in the last 50 years.
Majority does not read at all.
They are better learners from reading.
All of them have good musical skills, meaning good hearing memory.
The statistics of cellular phones grow in Africa are incredible. In South Africa 8 in each 10 have cellular phone, and 4 of 10 in Angola have it.
If they know how to operate a phone, it would be easier to operate a voice command cellphone. Voice command is possible using the CPU of a computer.
Mesh computing, as the Berkeley BOINC project, with CPU sharing, can create a powerful computer, making it possible do have a network of cellphone and personnel computer capable of voice command and voice response in all devices.
New protocols are being developed, that makes possible to have a wireless network, combining Bluetooth, WI-Fi, (wireless) and LTE (cellular), with some fiber optic and satellite communications. We have just acquired a satellite (850 M usd).
Open source for the software, hardware, project and implementation will make it affordable, and the Angola Government will participate, paying premiums, shares, points, salaries, or other method that are common.
Attached I have the proposal, made with my reduced resources.
Implementing an E Govern, and a voice command cellular phone connected to a computer by wireless technology, is my idea.
The Kit to sell to the population will be;
A simple cell phone, a laptop (the 100us Intel computer upgraded) and a 100 W solar panel.
The solar panel has the wireless antennas, and is electrical wired to a box inside the house with a 100 A battery to charge the phone, the computer and others, like led lamps.
Cell phone with cellular technology (LTE) and WiFi (wireless) technology.
Cellphone will connect to the laptop via wireless and to others via cellular technology.
The laptops will be connected on a sharing CPU protocol (BOINC), like a big wireless mainframe computer.
This means that your cell phones you will be always connected to your computer thru the CPU of the closest laptop.
Mid next year will be launch a software that will make this possible.
Voice command is an easy learning process and with a campaign of registry of the population with the handling of the equipment, in 4 to 6 years we can have everybody in the network.
With GPS, video, and RFID tag on the cellphone and possessions (house, car, etc), we can do a national registry of Angola.
We just toke 8 months to do an electronic national elections registry. 9 million people were registered.
With bionic identification, in the cellphone, and voice information we can jump from ilettered ( 70%) to a society of Elearning, where everybody has the opportunity to grow and educate himself.
With the network implemented we can have national ballot on line, and I am sure that the Angolans will vote on a GPS cellphone tracking for safety. Criminality is high.
The CPLP, the Community of Portuguese Spoken Countries is organized and, Portugal, Brazil, and others will participate in a WIKI ORAL, in which everybody reads and graphics the articles for oral and visual education. One You Tube with voice command.
From basic education to technical training can be done.
This will take 4 to 6 years to implement.
The personal Kit will cost less than 800 USD, and I believe that the World Bank, or the International community will finance the Angolans, thru his Government.
The project will cost around 10 Billion usd. This is 16 usd for each of us per month during 5 years... We can pay that.
The infrastructures of the E network are responsibility of the State, but the implementation and exploration has to be private.
I called the company AngoNet.
The implementation of E community is the first step.
Housing communities
As I mention before, the Government will build 1 million houses in the next 4 years.
Thousands of international companies are proposing projects, a lot of them approved, but we are not integrating them and the management of these huge investments is not coordinated.
All the investments in Angola are private, except the infrastructures, water, electricity, roads, etc.
We have Luanda, the capital with 5 million people, and four major cities with 1 million each.
The rural area is inhabited.
We need to build new cities and villages thru out Angola.
My proposal is to involve global specialists in all levels, to do an “Open Angola”
With Google earth and the definition can be improved with cooperation, we can do it.
A Concepcion like open source software and open innovation, in which we can set premiums and fees, partnerships and engineering contracts, will work.
Individuals and companies can participate.
We can use the new technology in housing, and in community ecology and living.
The government will define the proposed land for housing and give ownership to the purchaser.
Actually we are using concrete and blocks to do our construction.
Our bless country do not have earthquakes, typhoons, cyclones, nothing; only small tropical rains.
We can use lighter construction like steel beans and composite walls.
We have iron reserves all over the country, and a steel industry should be projected.
Starting next year, oil production has to be reduced, due to OPEP rules, and we have crude oil left over to start an industry of composites.
We started construction of an oil refinery that will refine 200.000 barrels a day.
Will be ready in 2012.
The new communities in my opinion shall be between 5.000 to 10.000 houses.
A perimeter of fenced, with electromagnetic insects repellent, would protect the community from wild and disease.
Prior disinfestations and demining, and an educational program to teach our population how to live in an ecological and modern community, will create healthy neighbourhood.
The project can be adapted to the will of the population. The AngoNet provides, that each of us can choose the place to live, apply for a local job or enterprise, sell our products, and the rapid transportation allows for a rural habitation combined with urban business and manufacturing metropolis.
Attached to the village perimeter, one perimeter for farms, for who decide to have a ecological agriculture for self use and to trade.
We are agricultures. Ecological agriculture can be trade in international markets.
The houses would be incorporated on the natural habitat, with electrical transportation and a maglev type high velocity mass transportation.
With fibber optic and satellite communications, combined to the wireless and cellular technology, we will have more than 10 million cellphone and computers connected in a mess computing network that will make possible all types of research.
With a high capacity network, ERchearch, and technological experiments and development are half way to project an industry of high technology in Angola.
Scientists, researchers, technicians, students, new companies, who wouldn’t like to live in a safe and ecological community, in a modern and safe jungle.
Institutions like MIT, Oxford, Berkeley, research institutes, renewable companies and investors, etc, etc, can install facilities and communities of intellectual cooperatives to plan a sustainable development of the world.
High tech industries like robotics, carbons and composites, pharmaceuticals and hospitals, nanotechnology, and others will have low price land, fiscal incentives, and the possibility of live on a clean environment.
The industry of high technology entertainment and tourism can be applied in the paradise places that we have.
“Buy a diamond in Angola and we will pay the ticket”, added to an internet sales of diamonds to finance the campaign “one Angolan, one computer” in an international solidarity campaign.
We have a computer aided diamond cutting facility in Luanda, and with such campaign we can increase the local cutting, increasing the profits.
The open source will propose new forms of financing, for example an internet direct sale of bonds and stocks.
Solar energy, combined with hydroelectric dams, to provide water too, shall be the energy source.
A thermal solar that can produce electric energy, cooling and drinking water in each house, will reduce the initial investment in infrastructures, while new technologies of construction combine distribution of water, gas, electricity, fibber optic (communications), and transportation in one single structure thru the country.
New reinforced composites combine with, …I like the idea of a crystal vacuumed tunnel magnetic transportation, made with a giant multiple extrusion machine that will melt the sand, and other composites into tunnels, pipes and channels, wrapped in steel fibber reinforced glass.
Smaller extruders can be made to infrastructure the villages.
We have in construction a LNG plant for exportation of natural gas. Instead of export we shall used it to construct the new Nation.
I would like to have the opinion on the comparison between the actual cost of infrastructures and the extruded one piece glass tunnel.
Open Source; “Gas Assisted Solar Absorption Heat Engine” - GASAHE
Blog: http://solarheatengine.blogspot.com/
I am proposing ammonia/water, but other mixtures can be study, for example ionic liquid /CO2.
Is my opinion, that is more efficient than the Stirling engines in use on actual solar farms.
The design allow for the engine to be installed as public illumination on the side walks of the roads and freeways.
At home will provide a nice cover on the backyard, next to the swimming pool.
My appeal is for collaboration in making a good graphical presentation, to show the world what we can do, and I believe that everybody will like it.
National geographic, Google renewable, foundations, Al gore, all of us, if we can put a prise for a graphics presentation of “Angola, an Open Source” in the “innocentive” may work.
Thank you for being involved
The future depends on us
David
- At 8:05am on May 9, 2008,
Vinay Gupta said… - hey hey hey :)
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