James Gien Wong

Status

"I've surveyed, filtered and sorted out between approximately 20 and 50 critical technologies in detail."

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Criteria

- The critical selection factors have been

   - lowest cost / highest reliability
   - durable
   - easy maintenance
   - can be open sourced
   - can be manufactured cosmolocally via community production cooperatives
   - scaleable cosmolocally
   - aligned with open source circular economy
   - low embedded energy costs
   - fits holistically and synergistically with other technologies I've sourced for a holistic system design for: 
       - residential home system
       - neighbourhood ( up to a dozen residential homes sharing common resource infrastructure that makes sense
       - community scale ( hundreds of homes to thousands)
       - cities
   - DIY
   - modular
   - fits within cross-scale translated, earth system boundaries for just and safe transition "

Technologies

"A list of the specific technologies:

   - TURBI high efficiency, vertical axis wind turbine that can double up as tidal generator
   - a community owned energy and clean water cooperative based on 
       - TURBI
       - low cost phase change desalination technology
       - collocated along coastal streets
   - sand thermal battery
   - passive solar heating via solar water geyser and pex cable underfloor heating tubes or wall radiators
   - low cost versatile geodesic dome design with low cost baton wood frame and light straw clay infilled, insulated panels for homes or greenhouse construction
   - earthen floor construction
   - rammed earth and insulated rammed earth construction
   - automated it sent automated rammed earth formwork system
   - bubble greenhouse technology 
   - passive earth tube greenhouse brain system
   - passive tropical greenhouse design
   - Mediterranean food forest
   - Tropical greenhouse food forest
   - Agroforestry 
   - DIRMBI drip irrigated, raised mulch bed implementation that can produce enough organic food to feed 10,000 people on 3 HA of land 
       - 4 sequential machines:
           - bedder 
           - transplanter 
           - tunneler 
           - harvester
       - For small and medium scale farmers
       
   - wicking bed designs for low water irrigation
   - low cost ferro-cement water storage design
   - masonry heater design for high efficiency and clean wood burning heat
   - Rocket stove heating
   - low cost aerogel super insulation 
   - solar powered velocar for bike power assisted, short hop urban transport for trips to local supermarket and other nearby services
   - beer hops-based transparent super insulation film to super insulate leaky windows
   - molten salt, micro Fresnel lens solar cooker 
   - modular cross laminated timber Lego style building system
   - Phase change physics
       - air conditioning system 
       - solar panel cooling system
       - desalination system
       - artificial solar powered, wind turbine 
   - house and community cycling water treatment system
   - low cost, low tech, solar powered water distillation system using tree rings
   - modular, Lego style furniture
   - Indyweb and Indranet people-centered, interpersonal, individual and collective evolutionary, life long learning system
   - Tipping Point Festival for rapid, bottom up whole system change
   - tipping point cafe and network
   - Deep Humanity praxis
   - Open source Stop Reset Go complexity mapping and sense making process for mitigation progress traps
       - implemented within the Indyweb and Indranet software ecosystem
   - community designed workshops for whole system transition to cross scale translated earth system boundaries
   - cross scale translated earth system boundary dashboard for cities and "Bend the Curve" gamification
   - food culture / recipe exchange community workshop for education of plant based diet

Associated with each of these technologies it processes is also a network of people that are connected with the technology or process."