OSE developing blueprint for building industrial machines in post-apocalypse era
Summary: Open Source Ecology is creating what it calls the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) -- a technology for ecology -- that can help humans quickly build machines and a mini civilization in the event of a catastrophic event. Maybe overkill, but it's nice to have a blueprint for survival -- and an open source one at that.
Are some in the open source world taking the 2012 apocalypse warnings too seriously?
Can't say, but one organization called Open Source Ecology deems it logical to prepare for the possibility of a catastrophic event on earth. The group is developing what it calls a "Global Village Construction Set" that enables the quick "fabrication"of 50 various industrial machines should civilization as we know it come to an end.
Fascinating. The construction set -- dubbed a "modular, do-it-yourself high performance platform" --incorporates the raw components to "build a small sustainable civilization with modern comforts," such as a bakery oven, universal power supply, tractor, bulldozer, seeder, welder and, of course, a 3D printer.
The Factor e Farm experiment, being conducted on 30 acres of land in rural Missouri, "aims to take everything that civilization has learned to date, to create a working blueprint for communities that work," according to the experiment web site. It is a "a place where we create the technology for ecology."
More:
"Here we are testing the prototypes of of Global Village Construction Set, working piece by piece towards self sufficiency. Ultimately, our goal is to make this self sufficiency available to all. To this end, the GVCS is designed to be self-replicable. After the first set is complete, it will be used to fabricate copies of itself from raw materials (for the cost of scrap metal). At that point we will shift to begin developing networks of interconnected self-sufficient villages and homes."
Not sure what to do if Missouri gets nailed, but it's reassuring to have a blueprint. Now, where do we hide all the engineers?
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A Linux build dedicated to the development of the GVCS
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But if society ends - - - -
Seems a fundemental flaw in the grand plan
RE: OSE developing blueprint for building industrial machines in post-apocalypse era
Biodiesel or alcohol can do ;)
Bio fuel still takes infrastructure
Proper biofuels still take people to make it and distribute it. bad quality fuels destroy the equipment. Then what? Not like you can build a new diesel engine on the fly.
Alcohol as fuel during hard times? No way, to valuable as a sedative to prevent people from seeing the real situation. In other words, they'll drink it before burning it.
As Rabid Howler mentioned, big learning experience. If civilization ends, I'll probably be dead anyway, so not all that concerned.
Alcohol and whatnot
"Alcohol as fuel during hard times? No way, to valuable as a sedative to prevent people from seeing the real situation. In other words, they'll drink it before burning it.
LOL
@Cynical99 also wrote:
"As Rabid Howler mentioned, big learning experience.
The moderators removed my on-topic post and I pointedly responded to Cynical99, not the blog spammer that was pushing meds. And isn't alcohol a med? Yeah, well, it's a depressant.
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RE: OSE developing blueprint for building industrial machines in post-apocalypse era
that is quite sad, and has not really been very well thought out.
Bakery oven
Universal power supply
tractor
Bulldozer
Seeder
Welder
3D Printer
WOW, those are going to be really important things to have right !!!!!.
Do they want a portable microwave oven, and a portable internet ?
Bake oven/ Universal power supply
That is called "A FIRE" - you can create that by rubbing two sticks together!!!!
Bake oven and universal power supply requires POWER, generally electricity.
What is the universal power supply there so you can power all your appliances you DO NOT HAVE ANYMORE !!!
Seeder !!!
Tractor / Bulldozer (SAME THING)
Seeder, what about SEEDS, what about WATER !!!!
How are you going to mill the seeds ?
WELDER !!!
Are you also going to create a iron ore mine, and steel works, and electricity for the welder !!
Do you know you can weld metal without a WELDER !!!!
3D Printer - Again what are you going to print out that is going to help you survive ?
Water, Food and Shelter are the first things you need to survive, then your long term survival will be based mainly on your ability to work with other survivors to continue to live.
we are talking about an APOCHALYPSE !!!! and FOSS want a bake oven what for their hot pockets ?
Thank about what you would probably need after some type of apochalypse ??
Water, shelter, food, a source of heat (fuel) and medical knowledge and probably some medications.
So if you wanted to create an 'open' concept to actually HELP people after some apochalypse you do not know how to make a 3D printer, and you will find not much use for things that you cannot live in, or eat or use to continue to stay alive !.
I dont know what others think but this seems poorly thought out, purile and quite stupid..
IF that is someones idea of a list of 'things' need to allow humans to survive after an apochalypse, then I am really, really hoping I do not find that group as the first one after the disaster.
without ANYTHING, I could walk outside and find the raw materials to weld metals, to make and run a bake over, so sow seeds, to gather food, to act as a bulldozer and a tractor, and also to "3D print".
I can also build (from what I find on the ground) the power supply for the oven (a fire), and would be considered quite "universal".
And I can do all these things without consuming a single watt of electricity (important when there is none).
What would be handy to know are the types of native plants that you can safely eat, methods of gathering fresh water, ability to care for myself medically using natural local plants, ability to make clothes, and the ability to make forms of transport (boat, wagon etc).
The next thing I would do once I have established basic survival technologies (creating fire, growing food, getting water) I would start work on a simple radio transceiver.
Very broad band, morse code transmitter and receiver, then in your spare time, with the expectation that others will be attempting to communicate with other groups would be doing the same thing.
Building a basic CW (morse) transmitter/receiver and generating electricity to power it, is very achievable with low tech equipment.
(ie no transistors, doides, values or IC's) just wire and metal and some chemicals, things you can find on the ground.
Why does not this FOSS group propose a basic open sourse radio transceiver for a post-apochalypse event, to ensure groups will be able to connect and established a larger community, and for the transfer of information.