Open Source Economic Development

OSE License for Post Scarcity Economics

While there are many open source licenses available, we feel that none of them address a practical and tactical approach towards creating a post-scarcity civilization – in mindset and in practice. Therefore, we are publishing v1.0 of the OSE License...

Resource Development Professional

Our strategy for supporting the development of the Global Village Construction Set is threefold: (1), crowd funding methods, (2) sales from products, and (3) standard non-profit sector fund-raising. We have been demonstrating $1500-$2000 monthly budgets...

Greetings from Sunny Sweden

Sweden is not exactly sunny at this time of the year, but the Nordic people are lovely. So far, it’s been a mind-blowing experience at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS 2009). One cannot explain it in writing – not even...

Solar Turbine Convergence Breakthroughs

In a historic convergence of December, 2008 – Solar Turbine work of OSE merged with a UK linear concentrator development team. Both teams have arrived at essentially the identical design, down to critical details – for a breakthrough, low...

Solar Turbine, Cast of Characters, and CEB Press

Stuart, Elliot, and I are here on the Solar Turbine: For the next two weeks we will iron out the details – right now it looks like a set of 40 foot long, 2-foot wide slats – 4 of these in total – with 48x solar concentration. Cost is...

Summer Heat

We are in a backlog for Factor e Live documentation and updates in general. It’s a busy time – so here is a few notes. I shook the cobwebs off the CEB press, and our team is doing 3D and finite element analysis modeling. We are days from finishing...

Turn Up the Heat

Vinay just informed me today of a great post on our work on BoingBoing, a Directory of Wonderful Things. Sam found another link about us at the Wired magazine blog. A few days ago, Steve Bosserman wrote a great post on how open source products can make...