Beyond Civilization

Here’s an outline of many of my plans.

Create an ecological succession plan as it applies to developing a Permaculture Industrial Park.

I have been inspired by the multi-use space lease business model described by Mark Shepard in his book Restoration Agriculture and RAD. Many different businesses on a farm can share resources and lease from a landholding company while forming internal circular economies that support the overall profitability of the whole.

Clean energy, carbon removal, hydrogen, waste stream processing, regenerative agriculture, manufacturing, and ecological restoration can grow layered together in self-supporting microgrids with ecosystem agriculture. 

A media layer focuses on publishing educational content, networking, and hosting workshops for self-improvement and natural wellness.

Non-profit ecosystem restoration work can be like a wide net to extend our reach and maximize our impact while the for-profit businesses are Effective Altruism as benefit corporations.

Decentralized governance of AI will be used to invest the funds of a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) in an ecosystem of businesses designed to create self-supporting circular economies.

Agrivoltaics is the foundation for a new evolution in human society.

Ecological succession is an orderly progression of living relationships adding complexity to a system that allows for new value to be created and more systems to be layered within the complexity. 

A permaculture industrial park begins with wind and solar combined with regenerative agriculture throughout the footprint of the system.

Photovoltaics will allow for maximizing energy use on a property using AI for automated equipment to manage perennial ecosystem agriculture while producing materials in a perfect circular economy of resources extracted from the air and water.

Biomass produced on site can be gasified to supply chemical manufacturing.

Brownfields can be restored through concentrating the toxins in biomass that is fed through a plasma gasifier.

Carbon removal in systems like plasma pyrolysis, microwave gasification or modern flash joule heating for waste stream recycling can be a revenue source on both sides of the equation and a source of materials for new manufacturing.

Biochar can be produced and refined into high-value battery-grade graphite and graphene products for composites and electronics.

Flash Joule Heating produces cheap bulk commercial-grade graphene and can also be used to refine precious metals from electronics waste streams. Universal Matter was created by researchers out of Rice University.

Green Hydrogen combined with Carbon Removal will inevitably replace all petrochemical manufacturing.

DAC using a Calcium Carbonate cycle can supply a Sabatier reactor that is fed by green hydrogen. This eliminates the need for hydrogen storage because it is used immediately to make methane that can be used for energy storage or chemical manufacturing. Terraform Industries is the leader in this space.

Ammonia production can be done via electrolysis using a catalyst in a process pioneered by Monash University and being developed by Jupiter Ionics.

Permaculture Industrial sites can be designed to optimize utility with a long lifecycle and reliability of operation meaning these are earthworks infrastructure projects.

New hubs can be developed anywhere in the world with a supply of recycling materials to begin initial microfab commercial property development. Industrial sites can be extremely bare with exposed outdoor rated equipment and solar panels used for rainwater catchment roofs.

Advanced specialty manufacturing can be developed locally while the carbon removal and green hydrogen chemical manufacturing economy supplies a global market with commodities. 

Solar and energy storage with cryptocurrency mining can be profitable on it’s own and fund the build out of the remaining infrastructure. 

Carbon removal systems can pair with many industries for on site resource production using the air and water to manufacture raw materials. 

This is the foundation for an economy in space that recycles all materials and produces infrastructure using robotics manufactured in a single initial micro-fab.

Many components will need to be delivered to site, but the ability to use 3D printers to make robots capable of managing the construction and maintenance of a facility will be powerful.

Automation of agriculture, industry, and construction will allow for rapid expansion to restore the Earth to preindustrial conditions and for settlement across the solar system.