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The goal is to equip people with stuff so that they can function. You need a phone, a coat, heaters, computer, vehicle, and rural land. Maximize bang for buck with science.
Worry about survival first, then comfort, then prosperity. Comfort enables one to focus on prosperity.
Bootstrap package:
$
Communications📱 Phone 100
📶 Phone service 200 Per year
📡 Mobile internet 200 Per year
⌨ Folding keyboard 30
🖥 Tablet 40
🎧 Headphones & mic 40 50 mm speaker. Fully covers the ear. Helpful in loud cities
Power 🔋 Battery + AC outlet 80 Powers the electronics and heat pads
Phone batteries 20
🔌 Extension cord 10
♨ Butane heater 20 Flameless. Uses a platinum catalyst. Butane is cheap
Generator 100 1000 Watts. 10 kg. Gasoline → electric
🔥 Butane 40 Per year
Coal 40 Per year
Turtle shell 🧥 Full-length coat 80 Lightweight. Waterproof. Hood. Supersized. Abundant interior pockets
Puffer coat 40 Lightweight. Fits under the full-length coat
Pants, waterproof 20 Lightweight. Can be folded to fit into a pocket in the overcoat
🤠 Hat, heated 20
🧦 Socks, heated 20
🧤 Gloves, heated 20
🧣 Scarf, heated 20
Heat pads 20
🎒 Backpack 30
Hip strap 20 For heavy loads
Carbon fiber frame 30 For heavy loads
Vehicle 🛴 Scooter, electric 200 Has a big battery. 500 Watt. Range of 30 km
Scooter seat 40
🔒 Locks 40
Trunk, lockable 40
Trailer, lockable 60
🦽 Wheelchair, motorized
Camping gear ⛺ Tent 100 8x6x6 feet. 5 kg
⑁ Folding chair 30 3 kg
Folding table 30 Wide so that your feet are free to move
Comforter 40 Serves as a mattress and blanket
Clothes Belt 20
👖 Suit pants 40
👔 Suit shirt 40
Suit coat 60
👞 Suit shoes 60
Suit tie 20
Socks 20
Computer Mini PC 220 16 GByte RAM. GPU. Runs AI software well
🅌 SD card 30 512 GB. Serves as a backup for data on the computer
Cooking 🫖 Electric pot 20 Lightweight aluminum. Telescoping
Wire mesh grill 10
Food 💊 Vitamin pills
🥩 Canned meat
🍚 Rice, pasta, flour, etc.
🥜 Nuts
🧈 Butter
Soda Cheap calories
🥛 Powdered milk Cheapest source of protein
🧊 Ice
Campground 💤 Safe place to sleep
🦼 Bike racks For vehicles, shopping carts, etc.
💧 Water
🚰 Sink
⌁ Electricity
♂♀ Bathrooms
🔒 Lockers
🚿 Showers
🧊 Refrigerator + freezer
Laundry machines
🔥 Hot air source
🎪 Canopies for rain and wind
🪭 Fan
💧 Water vaporizer
Air conditioning
Weightroom
🪞 Mirror
⛟ Medical van
🏥 Hospital
Recreation 🏡 Rooms
🏈 Sports balls
🏓 Sports rackets
🏀 Sports courts Ping pong, billiards, darts, etc.
Gym club membership
Rural house Rural land 100 10x10 meters. Rural land is 1 $/meter2
Office chair 80 Arm rests. Head rest. Swivel. Wheels. 6 kg
Table
🛋 Couch
🌱 Seeds 20
Building supply🪵Lumber
🪨Stones, gravel, sand
⌶ Aluminum beams
Cement
🖌Paint
Health
Monitor ♥ Life signs monitor 100 Wristwatch. Broadcasts to your private cloud service
🩸Cameras & mics 100 Wearable. Broadcasts to your private cloud service. Also has microphones
☁ Cloud service 200 If you are hurt, agents act
Preventative 🩸Blood test 250
🧲Full-body MRI 500
👁Eye exam 100
🦻Ear exam 200
🧬DNA test 500 Finds potential medical problems
Mammogram 650
Colonoscopy 2000 Needed every 10 years
🫁Lung cancer test 600 CT scan
🦴Bone density scan 200 Moot if you have an MRI scan
Abdominal arteries 200 Ultrasound. Recommended for smokers
Supplies 👓Glasses 30
Hearing aid 300
Natural resource🌊Water
🌲Trees
Grass
Rental 🚚Truck
Mower
Trailer
Hose
🪚Saw mill
Gravel maker
Critical items need backups. You need 2 phones.
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The base model is full-length, waterproof, lightweight, hooded, supersized, and has abundant pockets.
A puffer coat fits underneath.
Lightweight waterproof pants complete the shell.
The coat can have heat pads, batteries, and a fancy control panel.
The coat can have an air pump and a circulatory system to inflate it, for insulation. It can be a sleeping bag.
Hot air can come from a flameless catalytic butane burner and can feed the circulatory system.
The coat can have a waterproof pocket for ice to make cold air for the circulatory system. Cold air can also come from evaporating water.
The coat can have a stiff frame and a hip strap for ease of carrying things.
A vehicle enables you to get to jobs. You can work in a city and camp on rural land.
A 3-wheeled vehicle can carry big weight and can support people with limited mobility.
A vehicle can have a lockable trunk and can tow a trailer.
A vehicle with a cabin is a shelter.
A vehicle can have sensors and trackers to fight theft.
A simple vehicle is a folding electric scooter.
A $200 scooter has a 500 Watt motor, moves at 18 mph, and has a range of 20 miles.
It has a 1 MegaJoule battery that can power appliances. It can carry a
1000 Watt gasoline-electric generator, which costs $100.
A gasoline motor costs $100 and has a power of 2000 Watts. It can attach to
most vehicles. It can make electricity by attaching a dynamo or alternator.
The table has the components of a small gasoline vehicle that makes electricity.
$ Watt
Scooter 100 0
Piston engine 100 2000 Gasoline → Heat → Mechanical
Dynamo 50 500 Mechanical → DC
Battery with inverter 70 120 DC → AC
You can feed a person for $4 a day with chicken, rice, and dairy products. These are among the
cheapest proteins, carbs, and fats.
Carbs are cheap but they need sauce.
The expensive part of sauce is the fat source, and cheap fat sources include
dairy products and vegetable oil.
An example of a day's food is:
What counts is "calories per dollar" and "protein per dollar", which are charted below.
Cheap proteins are to the right and cheap calories are to the top.
Foods with high calories/$ include peanuts, pasta, rice, bread, and milk.
Rectifier AC → DC
Inverter DC → AC
Dynamo Mechanical → DC
Alternator Mechanical → AC
Piston engine Gasoline → Heat → Mechanical
Generator Gasoline → Heat → Mechanical → AC → DC
Power/$ Energy/$ Power/mass Energy/mass
Watt/$ MJoule/$ Watt/kg MJoule/kg
Gasoline motor 18 - 250 -
Electric motor 10 - 200 -
Battery, li-ion 10 .01 500 .6 Energy/$ is for the battery, not the electricity
Battery, lead acid 10 .02 180 .18 Energy/$ is for the battery, not the electricity
Generator 10 - 100 - Gasoline → electric. 40% efficient
Gasoline 10 45 100 47
Rectifier 10 - 300 - AC → DC
Inverter 10 - 300 - DC → AC
Alternator 15 - 200 - Mechanical → electric. 90% efficient
Mass Protein Calories Cost Cost per mass
gram gram $ $/kg
Chicken 330 100 900 1.6 5
Rice 300 16 1000 .9 3
Butter 50 0 360 .5 10
Milk 1000 33 422 1.0 4
Total 149 2682 4.0
Vitamins are easy. Almost all vitamins fit in one pill, except for potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium. These vitamins can be obtained in raw chemical form for cheap. The daily vitamin requirement is:
Requirement Source
gram/day
Potassium 3.5 Potassium phosphate
Phosphorus 1.0 Potassium phosphate
Calcium 1.0 Calcium chloride (Most soluble form of calcium)
Magnesium .35 Magnesium chloride
Iron .27
Zinc .075
Manganese .075
Copper .022
The plot shows the protein and calorie content of food. Foods with high protein and low fat are to the lower right.
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Comfortable furniture is good for posture. Posture is good for mental health. Without comfortable furniture, your brain fries.
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A chair can have:
*) A high back, high enough to support your head
*) Arm rests that are retractable
*) Reclinability
*) Swiveling
*) Wheels
*) Space underneath the chair for your feet
*) Adjustable height
*) Padding
*) Extendable foot rest
*) Hard floor underneath for smooth rolling
Have multiple chairs with different properties.
Have a sofa.
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Your feet should be free to move. A table should be wide so that the table legs don't obstruct your feet. The chair should also not obstruct your feet.
A large bed is good for comfort and posture.
Many homeless shelters use cots, or they have people sleep in chairs with their heads on a table. This can weaken posture and mental health.
For outdoor benches,
there can be a canopy for rain and walls for wind.
There can be benches in the sun for cold weather and benches in the shade for hot weather.
Some benches can have tables.
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A shopping cart can be a locker if you add a top to it, and it can be locked to immovable objects.
A city could provide space for
shopping cart parking.
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A 4-foot-tall tent costs $50 and a 6-foot-tall tent costs $100.
2 tents can be nested for thermal insulation.
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Prime farmland is 1 $/meter2 and wilderness land can be much less. City land is usually more than 1000 $/meter2.
Land enables privacy and security.
Short-term land rentals enable flexibility. You can build a community of friends. You can escape bad communities. Freedom of association and disassociation.
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A wall of pines can soundproof and sightproof. Pines are dense.
Pines are narrow. A young pine forest achieves full canopy coverage early.
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Cities often have overwhelming lights at night. Darkness is hard to find. Cities are often loud.
Rural land has darkness and quietness.
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You need access to natural resources and machines to harness them. Good resources include stone, wood, and grass. A saw mill can harness a rock quarry and a forest. A Stirling generator converts biomass to electricity. Grass can be harnessed with grazing livestock.
You need to be able to rent machines, trucks, and time at the saw mill.
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A ham radio can communicate point-to-point.
A community can build a network of repeater antennas to establish an independent communications network.
The Starlink satellite network provides internet access anywhere.
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Much can be had for free from churches, junkyards, and the salvation army. Clothing is abundant. Schools should have classes on junk engineering.
Bike repair is a handy skill. You can customize vehicles from parts and you can build big batteries from individual cells.
Price/kg Density
$/kg gram/cm3
Lumber .1 .2 to 1.2
Magnesium 2.5 1.7
Aluminum 2.7 2.7
Steel .75 7.9
Concrete .08 3
Glass 1.2
Plastic 1
Plexiglass 20
Carbon fiber 20 1.75
Mineral composite 10 1.05 Waterproof. Based on silicon oxide
Styrofoam 1.5 .01 to .04
Gravel .12
Sand .12
Stone, cheap .15
Granite .8
Tarp, kevlar 20 20 $/meter2
Rubber, new 2.5
Rubber, recycled .4
Rubber, scrap .1
Freshwater .001
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Energy/$ Power/$ Energy/Mass Power/Mass
MJoule/$ Watt/$ MJoule/kg Watt/kg
Battery, lithium-ion .008 7 .6 400
Battery, lead-acid .045 58 180
Generator, gasoline - 10 100 Converts gasoline to heat to electricity
Generator, Stirling - 10 30 Converts any hydrocarbon to heat to electricity
Solar cell - .6 20
Wind turbine - 1 10
Water turbine - 1 30
Generator, hand crank - .4 40
Generator, bike chain .8 15 Extracts energy from a bike chain
Generator, bike wheel .15 15 Extracts energy from a bike wheel
Gasoline generators have good power/mass but they're not sold in small sizes. The smallest gasoline generator have a power of 1000 Watts and a mass of 10 kg.
The energy used by electronic devices is:
Volts Watts
Phone 5 .5 Assume the phone is on and playing a video
Tablet 12 3
Small laptop 12 10
Large laptop 19 20
Energy/Mass Energy/$ Mass/$
MJoule/kg MJoule/$ kg/$
Coal 32 320 10
Natural gas 55 250 4.5
Firewood 22 220 20
Gasoline 47 47 1.0
Propane 50 38 .75
Butane 50 38 .75 Lighter fluid
Coal, matchlight 32 13 .4
Wax 45 11.2 .25
Coal, hookah 32 3.8 .12
Gel fuel 22 2.2 .10 Methanol, ethanol, diethylene glycol
Solid fuel 30 .9 .031 Hexamine, trioxane
Heat pack, iron powder 10 .89 .089
Lithium-ion battery .6 .008 .013
You can cook outdoors with coal, and you can cook indoors with hookah coal.
Hookah coal produces minimal smoke.
Medical care can be divided into categories:
*) Monitoring
*) Emergency transport
*) Non-emergency transport
*) Emergency care
*) Non-emergency care
*) Preventative care
*) Supplies
Monitoring ♥ Life signs monitor 100 Wristwatch. Broadcasts to your private cloud service
Cameras & mics 100 Wearable. Broadcasts to your private cloud service
☁ Cloud service 200 If you are hurt, agents act
Preventative 🩸Blood test 250
🧲Full-body MRI 500
👁Eye exam 100
🦻Ear exam 200
🧬DNA test 500 Finds potential medical problems
Mammogram 650
Colonoscopy 2000 Needed every 10 years
🫁Lung cancer test 600 CT scan
🦴Bone density scan 200 Moot if you have an MRI scan
Abdominal arteries 200 Ultrasound. Recommended for smokers
Supplies 👓Glasses 30
Hearing aid 300
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A high-end MRI machine costs $3 million and has a magnetic field strength of 3 Tesla.
The cost of magnetic field strength is $1 million per Tesla. Low-end machines are 1.5 Tesla. Machines can go up to 7 Tesla.
A full-body scan takes 2 hours and costs $500.
The operating costs for a 3 Tesla machine is around 1.6 M$/year.
M$/year
Liquid helium .04
Electricity .25
Operator .13
Nurse .10
Front desk .055
Radiologist .72 Interprets scans
Maintenance .15
Supplies .09
Total 1.6
A community can volunteer for some of the staffing to reduce overall cost. The community and AI can help with interpreting scans. It should be possible to reduce the operating cost of an MRI machine to 1 M$/year.
High-end machines use liquid helium coolant, which is expensive. Low-end machines use liquid hydrogen coolant, which is cheaper.
A comprehensive blood test costs $250. The cost breakdown in dollars is:
Blood cell count 40 Nutrients 40 Lipids 40 Sugar 40 Hormone & Thyroid 80
A DNA scan for potential medical problems costs $500.
A full DNA scan costs $4000.
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Media subscriptions
Game subscriptions
Gamestation
VR goggles
Tickets to minor league baseball games
Coaches can improve a community. Examples:
Sports coaches
Pastors
Therapists
Teachers
Have options for all fitness levels. For example:
*) Fit for work
*) Unfit to work but can get fit with recuperation time
*) Unfit to work and unable to recuperate to fitness.
Mental fitness matters. It's good to be cheerful and a team player, and it's easier if you're comfortable.
Polite people cost less to take care of than impolite people.
Agencies that are run by volunteers don't want to deal with impolite people.
Have therapists and meditation experts.
Homeless people can help cities by doing things like pick up litter, landscape,
report crimes, etc.
A gym membership includes showers and lockers.
A farmer's market cuts out middlemen like food factories, grocery stores, and trucking.
Churches are good for operating charities. They attract volunteers and they make a community for volunteers.
Soup trucks are a good way to distribute food. Soup is easy to make and it's a good way harness what's available at the day.
Most food pantries hand out the same amount of each item to each person. One could instead have a menu. Each item has a price in credits and each client is given a fixed number of credits.
Maximize bang-for-buck matters. Minimize bureaucratic skimming.
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Completion year Build time in years
Erie Canal 1825 8
Transatlantic telegraph 1865 11
Transcontinental railroad 1869 6
Niagara hydroelectric dam 1896 4
Empire State building 1931 1.12
Hoover Dam 1936 5
Golden Gate bridge 1937 4
Pentagon 1943 1.33
Manhattan Project 1945 2.5
Apollo Program moon landing 1969 9
Have a van with diaster supplies.
Have drivers that are trained in disaster management.
The van can do much more. It can be a store, a museum, a gameroom, etc.
Establish a hierarchical command structure. Have flexibility.
Assign roles and give titles.
Harness communities that are well-unified.
Have a platform for communication.
Have everyone make a web page announcing their skills and resources. Have a unified database with an indexing system.
Hold drills and make them fun.
Stockpile supplies. Gear and food. Have a website that keeps track of each person's supplies.
Have a web site showing what supplies to get.
Have a fleet of diverse rescue vehicles.
The most important features are speed and payload. Startup time also matters.
The system downloads satellite photos and annotates them, with user input.
Be able to store the photos on your local device if there is no communication.
Have surveilance, both public and private.
During peacetime, surveilance can be a bad thing, but during disasters, surveilance
is useful.
Everyone should have scuba gear and fire suits. It can save lives. Plus, the more firefighters, the better.
Everyone should have hoses, pumps and generators. People with pools should have supersized equipment.
If a fire is coming, people without pools can make a pond on their land.
Soak all surface. Buildings, grass, and trees.
A forest fire is hard to stop because forests are dense. 11 kg of wood per square meter.
Even if you stop sparks, the heat wave ignites everything.
A city fire can be stopped because the density of flamable material is less than for a forest, but
it requires the ability to protect buildings. A fire blanket big enough to cover a house costs $4000.
A community should have such blankets in stock. Get them to the houses in greatest danger.
Firefighting gear:
You can build a supervillain fortress for a mere 100,000 dollars.
A supervillain fortress includes things like:
Prime farmland is 1 $/meter2 and wilderness land is less.
An example of a $100,000 fortress includes:
RVs can be made from shipping containers, which are cheap. A 40' shipping container costs $2000.
A 40' trailer bed (with wheels) costs $10000.
Windows can be made with transparent acrylic, which costs 200 $/meter2.
Cargo ships have a payload of ~ 1 kg/$.
A seastead can be constructed on a cargo ship, or you can build tiles that link together.
You also want docks for boats.
A breakwater is necessary for hosting small ships, and for minimizing sway.
A luxurious seastead needs a stout breakwater.
The breakwater should be submerged and out of site, to not obstruct ocean view. It should be
outside the residential space, so that residences are not subjected to harsh waves.
A breakwater can use fins to damp motion, and it can also have internal damping.
Motion dampers can generate electricity.
Old wind turbine blades make good breakwaters. You need a long stiff structure.
To minimize sway, the seastead cross section at sea level should be minimized.
Flotation elements should be at least 10 meters deep, to not be influenced by surface
waves.
The habitable platform should be high above water, in case of storms.
Flotation elements are connected to the platform by vertical columns that are trussed together.
It looks like a bamboo forest with a treehouse on top.
Residences should have wide open view, so the residences should be on the outer rim.
The seastead looks like a bike tire, with an outer rim, spokes, and a hub.
There are bridges on the outer rim and on the spokes, so that boats can move
around the interior.
The main breakwater is outside the seastead, beyond the outer rim. There can also
be interior breakwaters and motion dampers.
A seastead can be constructed from modular tiles. There should be abundant beams
and cables connecting them, to reduce sway.
Many people will want yards with ocean view, and that can't be seen into from
outside.
A house can have tiers of yards. There can be a yard at sea level and a yard high
above sea level.
Attract wild animals to the seastead, such as whales, dolphins, and birds. Also attract fish
that can be eaten.
Include an underwater garden.
Have a dock for connecting the seastad to land. If it's long enough, it can serve as an
airstrip.
Have a large satellite dish and a connection to Starlink.
The most famous par 3 that exists is the Phoenix open. A stadium surrounds the hole with a capacity of 20,000.
People care about golf. The seastead should have a driving range. A tee zone on the seastead and a floating green in the sea.
A floating green can move and have variable distance. It can have an entourage of fairway and bunker tiles that can be swiftly re-arranged. The green can have actuators that can make the green topology anything you want. The green can adjust like the mirror in a telescope with adaptive optics.
My fiction novel involves a fleet of land yachts that tours golf courses.
The most important quality for a computer is memory, especially for AI and video production.
Adding a GPU to a computer increases its speed by a factor of 30.
The best minimalist computer is the cheapest mini PC with a GPU, available for $220. It has big memory (32 GB), which can
run sofware for audio/video production and AI.
A mini PC can use a tablet for a screen and
can be driven with a compact folding keyboard. It makes laptops obsolete.
Desktops and supercomputers:
Components:
GPUs:
Prices from Amazon.
A mini PC needs a battery with 12 Volts or more. There exist batteries with 25 Volts
that can dial-a-Volt to lower voltage.
Prizes for STEM contests. The prime contest for K-12 is the Science Olympiad.
A person should never be separated from:
Life signs monitor, with communication with a cloud service that will rescue you if you are hurt
The transcontinental railway was started in 1863 and completed in 1869, opening
up the West to rail transport.
In 1828, rail crossed the Appalachian mountains.
By 1860 The North and Midwest constructed networks that linked every city. In
the heavily settled Midwestern Corn Belt, over 80 percent of farms were within
8 km of a railway. The USA had 28900 railroad miles and the UK had 10400.
Telegraph km in 1852.
The first successful transatlantic cable linking America and the UK was completed in 1866.
It was made possible by William Thompson's invention of the mirror galvanometer in 1857,
for detecting telegraph signals.
American suspension bridges have held the world record for length from 1849 to 1981.
In 1939 the world's 9 longest suspension bridges were American.
America was the first to harness large-scale hydroelectric power when Westinghouse
and Tesla built a 37 MWatt plant at Niagara falls in 1895. They also solved the
problem of long-distance transfer of electricity, inventing the alternating current
method.
By 1930 America had built 10 dams with a height of at least 90 meters.
In 1945 America had the three highest dams in the world, the Hoover Dam, the Shasta Dam,
and the Grand Couleee Dam.
Tesla and Westinghouse built the first large-scale hydro-powered electricity plant at
Niagara falls in 1895. It generated 37 megawatts of power and turbocharged American manufacturing.
The first naval battle involving iron ships was in the civil war in 1862, between the
North's Merrimac and the South's Virginia.
Steel production in 1913 in billion kg.
The Erie Canal, completed in 1825, was the second longest canal in the world.
Airports that are far from a major pro sports franchise include:
Data for 2019.
American Museum of Natural History
Transitional Services of New York City
Broadway Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, New York
River Fund, Richmond Hill, New York
Calgary's Mission, Richmond Hill, New York
Saint Teresa of Avila Church, Brooklyn
Faith Assembly Church, Richmond Hill, New York
Zion Tabernacle, Richmond Hill, New York
Agape Seventh Day Adventist Church of Richmond Hill
Christina Home Care Services, Richmond Hill, New York
Amazon Corporation. Good prices and fast delivery
Spectrum Corporation. Good prices and good service
Starbucks Corporation
Hose, 2" 2 $/meter
Hose, 4" 5 $/meter
Water pump 10 Watt/$
Generator 10 Watt/$
Battery 1.6 WattHour/$
Barrel to hold water .5 gallon/$
Fire suit 100 $
Fire blanket 12 $/meter2
Fire extinguisher 30 $
Scuba tank, .5 L 100 $ 200 atmospheres. 7 minutes of air
Scuba tank, 2 L 250 $ 200 atmospheres. 30 minutes of air
Scuba mask 30 $
Scuba air pump 60 $
Drone 100 $
All-band transceiver 100 $
Power Energy Cost
kWatt MJoule $
Car 318 472 40000 Ford F-150 Lightning EV
RV - - 20000
Land - - 10000
Solar cells 2 - 10000 10x10 meters
Generator, gasoline 100 - 10000 Converts gasoline to heat to electricity
Generator, Stirling 10 - 1000 Converts biomass to heat to electricity
Battery, lead-acid 60 45 1000
Battery, lithium-ion 7 10 1000
Gasoline stockpile - 47000 1000 1 $/kg
Firewood stockpile - 170000 1000 .12 $/kg
Wood stove 1000 - 1000
Memory Thread GPU Cost Power CPUs Threads TPUs CPU SD SDmax GPU
GB GFlop GFlop $ GB/$ GFlop/$ Watt GHz TB TB
El Capitan. World #1 5400000 20000000 2700000000 600 Mil .009 4.5 30 Mil 1050000 11000000 1.8 AMD Instinct MI300A
NYU Greene, 1 node 3000 96 3.7 World champion for biggest memory per node
Dell PowerEdge R560 2048 324 126000 30000 .10 4.2 2000 56 108 3.0 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000
HIDevolution 256 137 31800 7400 .03 4.3 250 24 24 5.7 2 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090L
Nvidia DGX Spark 128 50 31000 4000 .032 7.8 140 20 20 180 2.5 4 NVIDIA GB10 25 MByte/second external. 1.2 kg
GMKtec+ 128 163 14800 2000 .06 7.4 16 32 40 5.1 2 8 AMD Radeon 8060S
GMKtec 96 102 8300 700 .14 11.7 14 20 12 5.1 1 8 AMD Radeon 780M
Bosgame M4 96 82 8300 510 .19 16.3 8 16 - 5.1 AMD Radeon 780M
Firebat 64 54 1460 395 .16 3.7 55 6 12 - 4.5 AMD Radeon 660M $275+$120
Minisforum 32 77 3380 320 .10 10.6 140 8 16 - 4.8 .5 AMD Radeon 680M
Bosgame 3550H 32 30 1130 220 .15 5.1 65 4 8 - 3.7 .5 4 AMD Radeon Vega 8
Raspberry Pi5 16 9.6 0 150 .11 .064 27 4 4 - 2.4 - Size .7x2.7x3.4 inch
Raspberry Pi5 8 9.6 0 100 .08 .096 27 4 4 - 2.4 - Size .7x2.7x3.4 inch
Raspberry Pi0 2W .5 4 0 35 .014 .11 12 4 4 - 1.0 - Size .5x1.3x2.7 inch
CPU speed/$ .5 GFlop/$
GPU speed/$ 35 GFlop/$
GPU Speed/Power 200 GFlop/Watt
RAM .4 GB/$
SD memory 14 GB/$
Disk memory 50 GB/$
Battery energy/mass
GPU speed NPU speed Core GPU TMU ROPS Tensor Clock RAM RAM speed Power Cost GPU speed/$ Rez max
TFlop TFlop # # # # # GHz GB TB/second Watt $ GFlop/$
AMD Instinct MI300A 123 228 14592 912 2.1 128 5.3 760
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 126 24064 752 192 752 2.6 96 1.79 1000 9000 14.0
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 105 419 170 21760 680 176 680 2.4 32 1.79 575 2800 3
NVIDIA GB10 31.0 1000 20 6144 384 48 384 2.5 128 .27 140 4000 7.8
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090L 31.8 82 10496 328 112 328 1.5 24 .90 150
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 35.6 10496 328 112 328 1.70 24 .94 350 1500 190 GPixel/second
AMD Radeon 8060S 14.8 126 40 2560 160 64 50 2.9 55 3840x2160
AMD Radeon 780M 8.29 0 12 768 48 32 0 2.7 54 2560x1440
AMD Radeon 680M 3.38
AMD Radeon 660M 1.46 6 384 24 16 1.9 40
AMD Radeon RX 550 1.21 0 8 512 32 16 0 1.18 2 .112 95 12.7 1600x 900
AMD Radeon Vega 8 1.13 0 8 512 32 8 0 1.1 3 25
Width Height Video rate Price
MByte/second $
HGVA 480 320 .11
XGA 1024 768 40
WUXGA 1920 1200 110
UHD 4K 3840 2160 7.0 220
UHD 8k 7680 4320 28 1800
Spectrum internet 62 $40/month
Thick Width Length Price Energy Power Volts Mass MJoule/kg Volt
inch inch inch $ WattHour Watt kg
PWEITE 1.0 3.4 5.5 90 240 120 25
WXX .62 2.2 2.7 7 11 5 .034
Talentcell 55 65 .43 .54 24 1.1 4.1 4.1
RGT 50 49 .25 .71 .9 3.2 6.3
Power Voltage max Amps at 5 Volts
Watt Volt Amps
USB-C PD 3.1 240 48 5
USB-C PD 3.1 240 20 5
USB-C 15 5 3
USB-A 10 5 2
Phone
Passport and IDs
Credit cards
Keyboard
Glasses
Hearing aid
Electricity
Dentures
Wheelchair
Service animal
Clothes & overcoat
Weapons. Knife, pepper spray, air-powered gun, air horn, smoke bombs, noise bombs, etc.
Comforts: Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, etc.
Headphones and microphone. Quality audio input
People km2 Acres/homestead
1889 50000 8100 40
1991 20000 160
1992 14000
1993 40000 24240 160
USA 37000
UK 2500
Prussia 2300
Austria 1600
Canada 1400
France 1100
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Year Length World record
Wheeling 1849 308 * West Virginia
Queenston-Lewiston 1851 317 * Niagara
John A. Roebling 1866 322 * Kentucky, Ohio
Niagara Clifton 1869 384 * Niagara
Brooklyn 1883 486 * New York City
Williamsburg 1903 488 * New York City
Bear Mountain 1924 497 * New York, Hudson River
Benjamin Franklin 1926 534 * Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Ambassador 1929 564 * Detroit, Ontario
George Washington 1931 1067 * New York City
Oakland Bay 1936 704 San Francisco Bay
Triborough Bridge 1936 421 Queens and Wards Island
Golden Gate 1937 1280 San Francisco Bay
Bronx-Whitestone 1939 701 New York City
Tacoma Narrows II 1950 853 New York City
Delaware Memorial 1951 656 Delaware River
Mackinac 1957 1158 Michigan, Upper and Lower Penninsula
Walt Whitman 1957 610 Delaware River
Throggs Neck 1961 549 New York City
Verrazano-Narrows 1964 1298 * New York City
Height Year Power
(m) completed (MW)
Niagara Adams 1895 37
Buffalo Bill 110 1910
Roosevelt 109 1911
Arrowrock 110 1915
Elephant Butte 92 1916
O'Shaughnessy 130 1923
Gorge 91 1924
Horse Mesa 93 1927 15
Canyon 109 1927 18
Pacoima 111 1929
Diablo 119 1930
Owyhee 127 1932
Hoover 221 1936 480
Grand Coulee 170 1942
Shasta 184 1945
Oroville Dam 187 1968 170
New Bullards 197 1969 150
Dworshak Dam 219 1973
USA 31.5
Germany 19.3
UK 10.4
Million people College College
per year size
Utah Salt Lake C 12.8
Idaho Boise 2.05 24100 Boise State
Idaho Falls .18
Moscow 10800 U Idaho
Rexburg 43000 BYU Idaho
Pocatello 10800 Idaho State
Montana Bozeman .78 15600 Montana State
Billings .46 4000 Montana State at Billings
Missoula 8300 University of Montana
Butte 2400 Montana Tech
N Dakota Fargo .47 14400 North Dakota State
Bismarck .31 4200 Bismarck State College
Grand Forks 14200 U North Dakota
S Dakota Sioux Falls .57
Rapid City .34
Iowa Des Moines 1.42
Cedar Rapids .67
Nebraska Omaha 2.45
Lincoln .16
Kansas Kansas City 5.75
Wichita .85
Oklahoma Oklahoma City 2.13
Tulsa 1.50
Alaska Anchorage 2.65
Fairbanks .55
Juneau .36
Wyoming Jackson Hole .6
Casper .08
Laramie 12900 U Wyoming
Million people/year
1 Atlanta 53.5
2 Los Angeles 42.9
3 Chicago 40.9
4 Dallas 35.8
5 Denver 33.6
6 New York JFK 31.0
7 San Francisco 27.7
8 Seattle 25.0
9 Orlando 24.6
10 Las Vegas 24.4
11 Charlotte 24.2
12 Newark 23.1
13 Phoenix 22.4
14 Houston 22.0
15 Miami 21.3
16 Boston 20.7
23 Salt Lake C 12.8
24 San Diego 12.6
25 Wash Dulles 11.9
26 Wash Reagan 11.6
27 Tampa 10.9
31 Nashville 8.92
41 Kansas City 5.75
43 Fort Myers 5.04
52 Jacksonville 3.47
53 W. Palm Beach 3.45
57 Orlando 2.72
58 Anchorage 2.65
60 Omaha 2.45
63 Memphis 2.31
66 Oklahoma City 2.13
67 Boise 2.05
68 Louisville 2.04
76 El Paso 1.74
80 Tulsa 1.50
83 Des Moines 1.42
101 Wichita .85
108 Bozeman .78
Cedar Rapids .67
Sioux Falls .57
Fairbanks .55
Fargo .47
Billings .46
Juneau .36
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Data from Wikipedia unless otherwise specified.