Sunday, March 01, 2015
Microfactory
A decentralize economy, not bases on consumption, described by
Carson in: Home Brew Industrial Revolution (2010), Proundhon and Kropotkin´s in
Fields, Factories and Workshops of Tomorrow, the economy can be consider by
Heying: Brew to Bikes: Portlands Artisan Economy, while this type of economy
where an individual or Guilds drive the economy was overshadow by the
industrial revolution and consumption economy, where mass production and oil.
A main drive for the industrial revolution was to low the price and
have more access to the products, and to achieve was the need to low cost of
the energy, carbon and eventually oil. To facilitate this ends, not only the
energy cost, but introduction of mass productions in farms through
mechanization, migrations from the farms to cities become industrial
production. The other period of a mercantile economy was the driven, in the 19´th
the British Empire, where the access to natural resource, minerals to cheap
organic products, the empire from India, Caribbean and Africa.
In US the Guilder age of the 19 century excesses culminated with the
great depression, the fear of the elite in US at the time, after the Russian Revolutions,
set in place a safeguards against this excess, especially banks they were not
allot to enter into speculation with deposits monies. In 1980´s in the supply
economy of the Regan years, Milton, created myth, the reason the great depression
was not due of the lack safe-guards, but to many. The first meltdown, because
economy is not a sciences, is a pseudo-sciences not different to Astrology or Alchemy,
where in the seal of idealize system, where people behavior can be quantified
avoid to deal with culture, psychology or the irrationality of humans, because
this factors like many other cannot be quantified, at beast economics should be
consider as part psychology. This error, by NAFTA, Clinton years, shifting industrial
based to a service economy, and the Industrial zones in Mexico eventually,
special economic zones in China. The meltdown of 2008, in part, because safe-guards
lift in the 1990´s where the banks allot
to become speculators, a plan was to privatize the social security (similar
Milton approach in Chile, while in the 80´s the retirement was place in private,
the 1980´s market collapse force the later government, to give option to be
public hands, eventually 90% of the population stay in the public, while interest
is less, the security to losing the lifesaving in speculation, prove too be much
for the regular population), when the democratic congress stop this plan, the
only option for the speculators was to appeal the greed, and tool was the uses
of homes as private bank under assumption the value of the houses will be
always up to cover the loans made against the houses, when the funds dry up the
next step, to come to renters and appeal the dream of ownership, of course, not
only the cost of the rent, by house ownership, have other costs, from local
taxes, to interest by the bank, in generally up to 3 years can be deferred, and
circular motion, spiral, when the house market collapse, the interaction cost
jobs in the 4.5 Million households lose. The acceleration of the safe-guard
removal, was after the Soviet experiment failure the elite (specially the human
repression), did not worry for the masses of disfranchised to be able to find
to alternative, but the conflict in Iraq a 1.5 billion Muslims, independent to
the religious conflict, or alienation, Political Islam is a challenge (but like
Soviet experiment, Political Islam is an absolutes, repression, lack of tolerance,
moreover, the sense of superiority by the religion, and religious cleansing and
ethnic cleansing between themselves(Shia and Sunnis), but Christians, Yasmin, Kurd are in the eyesight of process human Genocide).
In 1950´s a small office of procurement in Defense Department used different
computers, but this machines did not spoke with each other, model on 19 century
telegraph idea of a code, for everyone to communicated, ain a1962, supporter by
DARPA, the ARPA protocols while the motivation for this decentralization, was
to be to respond to the Soviet Union, where command control can be any
location. Stalin with the Soviet model, included China today, historical had been
under tyranny, where in China today the Communist Party under an iron fist in
name of harmony, following a historical one individual rule.
Today, like many other unpredicted consequence, the computer
revolution, able to have a decentralize economy a possible and DNA revolution.
In both cases the Soviet Union, in case of DNA, for Ideological reasons, Lysenkoism
challenge Mendelian Genetics, in part consequence due to the NAZIS, ideology
base on Eugenics, and secondly the command economy cannot let free thinking growth,
China today limiting access.
While, the technology is come closed, because human have alter the environment,
out necessity a decentralize energy source, making a cheap energy resource
using solar, wind (http://www.greenoptimistic.com/diy-wind-turbine/#.VPLoGeFNp2A),
hydro, biogas, thermal, wave-energy, artificial leaves, with the 3-D printing
to produce materials for individual needs (Metobics-kicks start: http://www.mebotics.com/),
then economy become artesian (http://opensourceecology.org/), the use RF
technology to track replace the material, using Linux and ARM, computers based
on raspberry, opens source method of production from software, hardware or
product (http://everythingopensource.blogspot.de/).
The Idea of Microfactories was proposed by the Mechanical Engineer
Laboratory (MEL) of Japan in 1990, and today can be expand to electronics,
while still in very early stages the potential, similar to the 1950s internet
protocols, where use for any object based on individual needs, so far a
limitation is metal used, but work is being done to replace by using liquid metals.
In electronics, become close to able to produce customise circuits, the first
3-D cars (local motors-Phoenix Arizona), (a possible design, for a fly car, can
good candidate for Microfactory application: http://www.urbanaero.com/category/x-hawk
or a great science research: http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-icarus/)
has been achieved to the point
(individualize clothing to homes: http://www.busyboo.com/2009/04/16/dome-space-homes-solaleya/;
http://tinyhouseblog.com/uncategorized/scaled-solar-for-the-tiny-house-off-grid-on-the-cheap/),
commercialization is open, from homes to every day product, changing, the cost,
where refocus to the economy, the best run microfactory through a cooperatives,
or a collectives, using DYI space, make space (https://party.webmaker.org/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FFx%26You&utm_content=featured_aug14),
where anyone can use equipment and share responsibility. A industrial ware
house build and modulus space, using recycle materials, or material which not depend
on single costly commodity, and the value can be done an share economy, because
we still living a centralize economy, an slow process can be applied to
transportation, using trains, buses or loop, a hinder of course is cost of the
energy storage, but there possibility, using batteries or transforming the
energy into other material to be used later as energy. By bypassing, land communications
with long range wife creating a networks to create a simple and least costly communication
network (http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/), from wireless recharging systems
used to any energy need, eliminating power providers.
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Off the Grid
To used energy in environmental for climate changes, there is also
political consequence, of a decentralize society, since the best energy used
depend on regions, combination, Solar, Wind, Biogas, micro-hydro (in many case
can run a small micro-factory and a small house: the turbines: Screw Turbine: Reverse
Archimedes; Gorlov: Helical Turbine free stream or constrained flow or without
dam; Kaplan Turbine; Water Wheel; Gravitation water vortex power plan), to full
hydraulic systems, geothermal, where the electrical production of appliances consider
the minimum used of energy to accomplish
the full objective used. The open to micro-factories the used of bio-gas to run
cell fuel, and individual houses using a combination of solar and wind (Stand-alone
power-system), or other circumstance, were using small river stream to run
micro power generators. The collection of this individual micro energy sources,
become self-sufficient community, the only way to achieve this level, since the
cost is possible using co-housing and cooperative houses, collective houses,
can share cost. In case of Biogas Human waste can be use and recycle the water
returning to the water streams. Rain water or trapping water drops can be used
not only is water supplied but to run the micro-hydro.
Transition Time
WWI ended in 1917, the years between the second conflict of WWII,
while the reasons for WWI, where base on aspirations of West and Ottoman
Caliphate, in Nationalism and Empire construction, the between period was a
transition to the Empire build on race (National Socialist in Germany),
Authoritarian of the divine, Catholic Fascist
(Portugal, Spain and Italy) or Empire of the Ideology (Authoritarian Communism:
where humans where classified by class, become the German Nationalism which divided
by race, some president in Hindu society cast was (is) determination of the
status of individual, is not coincidence in case of National Socialist in
Germany, occultism drive some of the ideology, because many of the occult thinking is based on authoritarian hierarchy,
where everything and everyone fit into).
The failure of the Authoritarian communism ended with the fall of
the berlin wall, and the fact the Soviet Union economy revenue was 60% on
natural resource, especially oil and Capitalism Euphoria lifted the control mechanism
implemented in the 1930s to control the inequality, which give rise to Racist
Ideology, Catholic Fascist and the Authoritarian Communism. With the economic
meltdown of 2008, because not only the international economy, in 1990´s NAFTA
in US, the industrial production in US move south and eventually Asia for
cheaper labour, destroying the Industrial base in US and move to Asia. In South
America give the rise of the left and the Middle East Political Islam and the
funding of the ideology, which included the Authoritarian and corrupt Russia,
where the Orthodox Russian Church retaken a place in Russia, like in the Czar
time, based on corruption, and nepotism, and desired to be an Empire.
One lesson learnt of Empire, while the power is in the aggressor hand,
the relationship both ways, the influence, one of the other. Islam conquest,
have given access to culture and though, in case absorbing everything, but the
nature of the aggression, after is absorbed, the stop any creativity, in case
of Islam: consider in many cases the societies, maintain a tribe structure or case
Ottoman Empire, where tribe system was replace to a centralize state, the base
build upon was tribe, when the absorbed the other culture, internally stop be
creative, since one characteristic of Empire is to maintain the power Spanish
Empire is another example, because the objective was to maintain what got then
into power.
In case of Russia, which produce many Intellectual brake troughs,
but because in the desired to maintain the power structure, the brake though
where control, even in the everyday life. The Soviet State in the 1950s for ideological
(nepotism: In the 1930´s the Agronomist Trofim Lysenko camping against genetic
and with the support of Stalin, in part because the Eugenic moment which took
place in US, taken to Germany in 1930´s by the National Socialism became the base
of the Pseudo-Science, which race believe was built upon) reason suppressed the
research in Genetics and for control Cybernetics (Computer Science), since the initial
work done by the Defence Department in US, was to connect different machines
from different suppliers, and also to decentralized the command and control,
which was the opposite in Soviet Union, for ideological reasons, guaranty everyone
a job for life and centralize system
The revival of the left in South America, Venezuela, has come to an
stop, like the Soviet Case the revolution was funding through natural resources
(Oil), the fact the oil Shale in US and Canada, has force Saudi to lower the
price and Russia, committed the same error of the Soviet predecessor, since Russia
corruption (the old Communist Nomenclature become the oligarchs), the lash to
recreated an economic empire, where absorbing others technology brake through,
Russia aggression in Ukraine base on this desired. Of, course the problem the
because climate change, society energy consumption need to change, while
Natural gas, and immediate production of Shale Oil, in case of Russia, many
Anti-Fracking in European Union (while the objections are very valid local
Earth Quakes and water pollution), was supported by the Russia, since Russian
especially the East Europe, for more than 50 years was integrated to the Soviet
Empire, Russia wanted to revived the old structure to control East Europe, but
not just an environmental energy production, but a decentralized energy, challenge
the power.
The economic collapse of 2008, and the Middle East Economics, with a
big working young population, but not industrial base, the cash for the consumptions
based on Natural resources, with the climate changes send many people into
country side into cities and exacerbated, where an authoritarian political
structure, by Individual, family, majority or minority ethnic groups, and lack
of opportunity created space for a revolution, given space to political Islam,
which in name of International Religion, in exchange of submission to Religious
Authority structure. In China where, Communist party have authoritarian control,
but limiting the social liberties, limiting the access to the power and
limiting creativity, will limited the time life of the political structure.
Friday, January 02, 2015
Just Enough
Lessons are learn from three distinct societies, the collapse of the
Maya Civilization due to over cultivation in a poor soil, the Pascual Island,
deforestation, while Japan in the 16 Century, the Civil war and destruction of
the Forest become close to society collapse, but cast and authoritarian society
of Feudal Japan force an ecological society, which lasted to the 18 century
with open of the Japan.
The forest where renewed, but under strict control of the lords, the
village, become self-sufficient base on rice production of the terraces, become
the natural swamps, which recycle the precious used of water, the used the
local material, while individual families, close to self-sufficient, since the
Japanese society was agriculture, and the low class where the artisans and commerce,
the currency was rice.
The cities only 10% of the population are from commerce and artisans,
and the cities, in case of Edo, 60% of the population, belong to Samurai, they themselves need to
leave under the ecological system, the recycle of water and the separation of
human waste to be used in the field is a fertilize, because the status of the
Samurai, which depended by the rice rations of the Lord, and not allot to
engage in commerce, for the society base on exchange and share society (a good
description is given by Brown in Just Enough: Lesson from Traditional Japan,
2012).
The collapse occur, due the inward society where there was not
mobility, created a xenophobic, which were the roots of conflict in 1930´s and ended
in WWII, even today some of the traces are found in Japanese society.
The lessons we can learn, first Japan society like many of the
Asian, the Buddhism, is believe which is spiritual Journal, in the west the Monotheistic
believe there is not about an spiritual development, but submission to a God,
whether the path can be spiritual, but end result is to a Authority.
We as species are evolved, like other species depend on the environment,
we have change some of the environment, but we dependent to the fine tuning,
while is truth, this planet is a limited time, we are here to learn and
evolved.
We should not be limited to inequality the Capitalism offered or the
Authoritarian, from State Socialism, Communist (today the communist have become
state capitalism), the third way describe by Kropotkins in Fields, Factories
and workshops of tomorrow. Evolution is better than revolution, consensus is
better than majority or minority rule, while takes time, and sometimes decisions,
but examples in the Collectives of the Spanish revolution describe by Gaston
Leval, in Colectividades Libertarias en Espana, and more controversial because
the nationalism,
which the Kibbutz come, and today the original Kibbutz collective is only 30%
of the movement, described by Horrox in
A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement and the few anarchist
are found Kinbbutz Samar, Neve Shalom and in the north with more religious
orientation following the ideal of Rabbi Ashlag.
But what we can do now, technology and Science are just tools, to be
guide for a common good, first from economics, we have choice, the system have
power over us, because we let them, because we still accept and believe in
their solutions, to overcome, we need created cooperatives, and collectives,
based and willing participants, try to network cooperatives, become industries,
should become micro-industries, like Carson describes in: The Homebrew Industrial
Revolution, using open sources, now with 3-D printers, we began to open to possibilities,
customize and artisan society, based on collectives cooperatives (in 2014, the
production of autos using this micro fabric show mas production).
The use energy, while is not a single solution, off the greed, by
the use of solar, vertical wind mills, micro-hydro power, and bio-gas. The used
of train or other form mass transport (hyper loop), street cars, trolley buses,
electrical car (Local Motors), sun energy, bicycle, rollers. Electronics is
getting to the point micro-factories print will make possible to produce
customize electronics.
The food should be obtained from farmers markets, local production, neighborhood
gardens, or vertical agriculture. Education, as the way by system to control through,
gate keepers, and selected exams, to overcome, we all born with a talent and
our life work is to developed not only for us to achieve but to share, first education
should be open and should be based on apprenticeship, which combine practical and theoretical. Even in theoretical, how to
present the theory should be a practical, to train in a laboratory—models in
Popular Universities, Institutes, and Cooperatives Universities, the cooperative
and collectives encourage the use of models. While, we still live in a monetary
society, the use Mutual Aid Societies, Credit Unions, Saving Collectives Money
Associations.
Health is a social service, from the basic research to drug
development directly or indirectly, based on taxes, by the society, Medical
Doctors is train in Medical Hospitals, and this model can applied to basic
research, through apprenticeships. Society should encourage space exploration,
in the same structures, and using Biology Open Labs, can applied to other
science, and technology.
After 2008 crises 1.5 Million of families in US lost their homes,
become to mass protest, all accepted their situation, if there was the destiny,
but after the crises solutions, can be offer, one co-housing, buying land
together created community houses, base of the grid technologies, Municipal
internet and open internet, like in Estonia, free internet. The internet was
developed by US government original in the 1950s, to have different hardware,
eventually to able to respond Military, from many locations, in the 1970s
protocols of the technology took place, and eventually the used hypertext,
developed by grant from NSF, and bought by apple, the first web browser Mosaic
developed in University of Illinois, set the digital revolution. Today with
scan technology and RF we can track items, moreover the creation of used as
needed open possibility to creation of open, transparent, base democratic society.
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