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Fortunately, there is a glaring alternative -
the soilless mediums of hydroponics and aeroponics
which also reduce nutrient and water
requirements by up to 75% of our current usage.
Food can now be organically grown on an industrial scale
Such as in 50 story 1 acre plots -
virtually eliminating the need for
pesticides and hydrocarbons in general.
This is the future of industrial food cultivation.
Efficient, clean and abundant.
So, such advanced systems would be, in part
what comprise our agricultural belt
producing all the food required for the entire city's population
with no need to import anything from the outside
saving time, waste and energy.
The Energy Belt would work in a systems approach to
extract electricity from our abundant renewable mediums
- Specifically wind, solar, geothermal and heat differentials
and if near water potentials - tidal and wave power.
To avoid intermittency and make sure
a positive net energy return occurs
these mediums would operate in an integrated system
powering each other when needed
while storing excessive energy to large
super capacitors under the ground
so nothing can go to waste.
And not only does the city power itself
particular structures will also power independently
and generate electricity through photovoltaic paints
structural pressure transducers, the thermocouple effect
and other current but under utilized technologies.
But, of course, this begs the question:
how does this technology, and goods in
general, get created in the first place?
This bring us to Production:
The Industrial Belt, apart from having hospitals and the like
would be the hub of factory production.
Completely localized overall
it would, of course, obtain raw materials by way of
the global resource management system, just discussed -
with demand being generated by the population of the city itself.
As far as the mechanics of production
we need to discuss a new, powerful phenomenon
which was sparked very recently in human history
and is on pace to changing everything.
It's called Mechanization
or the automation of labor.
Well, if you look around, you'll notice that almost
everything that we use today
is built automatically.
Your shoes, your clothes, your home appliances, your car and so on...
they are all built by machines in an automatic way.
Can we say that the society has not been
influenced by these major technological advancements?
Of course not.
These systems really dictate new structures
and new needs and they make a lot of other things obsolete.
So, we have been going up in the development
and use of technology in an exponential way.
So, definitely automation is going to continue. You cannot stop
technologies that just make sense.
Labor automation through technology is at the bottom
of every major social transformation in human history.
From the agricultural revolution and the invention of the plow
to the industrial revolution and the invention of the powered machine
to the information age we live in now through
essentially the invention of advanced electronics and computers.
And with regard to advanced production methods today
mechanization is now evolving on its own.
Moving away from the traditional method of
assembling component parts into a configuration -
into an advanced method of creating
entire products in one single process.
Like most engineers, I'm fascinated by biology because it is
so full of examples of extraordinary pieces of engineering.
What biology is - is the study of things that copy themselves.
As good a definition of life as we've got.
Again, as an engineer, I have always been
intrigued by the idea of machines copying themselves.
RepRap is a three-dimensional printer -
that's to say it is a printer that you plug into your computer and
instead of making two-dimensional sheets of paper with patterns on
it makes real, physical, three-dimensional objects.
Now there's nothing new about that
3D printers have been around for about 30 years.
The big thing about RepRap is that it prints most of its own parts.
So, if you've got one, you could
make another one and give it to a friend
as well as being able to print lots of useful things.
From the simple printing of basic household goods in your home
to the printing of an entire automobile body in one swoop
advanced, automated 3D printing now has the
potential to transform virtually every field of production.
Including home construction.
Contour Crafting is
actually a fabrication technology -
the so-called 3D printing- when you directly build
3D objects from a computer model.
Using Contour Crafting, it will be possible
to build a 2000 square-foot home
entirely by the machine, in one day.
The reason that people are interested in automating construction
is that it really brings a lot of benefits.
For example, construction is pretty labor-intensive
and although it provides jobs for a sector of the society
it also has issues and complications.
For example, construction is the most dangerous job that there is.
It is worse than mining and agriculture.
That has the highest level of fatality in almost every country.
Another issue is the waste.
An average home in the United States has 3 to 7 tons of waste.
So this is huge if we look at the impact of construction
and knowing about 40% of all materials
in the world are used in construction.
So, a big waste of energy and resources
and big damage to the environment as well.
Making homes using hammers and nails and wood
with the state of our technology today, is really absurd
and will go the way of our labor class in
regards to manufacturing in the United States.
Recently, there was a study by economist David Autor of MI that states that our middle class is obsolete
and being replaced by automation.
Quite simply, Mechanization is more productive
efficient and sustainable than human labor
in virtually every sector of the economy today.
Machines do not need vacations, breaks, insurance, pensions
and they can work 24 hours a day, everyday.
The output potential and accuracy
compared to human labor, is unmatched.
The bottom line:
repetitive human labor is becoming obsoleteand impractical across the world
and the unemployment you see around you today
is fundamentally the result of this
evolution of efficiency in technology.
For years, market economists have dismissed this growing pattern
which could be called "Technological Unemployment"
because of the fact that new sectors always seemed
to emerge to re-absorb the displaced workers.
Today, the service sector is the only real hub left
and currently employs over 80% of the American workforce
with most industrialized countries maintaining a similar proportion.
However, this sector now being
challenged increasingly by automated kiosks -
automated restaurants and even automated stores.
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