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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
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 ⛺ 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 ♂♀ Bathrooms
💧 Water
🚰 Sink
⌁ Electricity
🧊 Refrigerator + freezer
Lockers
🚿 Showers
Laundry machines
🪞 Mirror
⛟ Medical van
🏥 Hospital
Recreation 🏡 Rooms
🏈 Sports balls
🏓 Sports rackets
🏀 Sports courts Ping pong, billiards, darts, etc.
House Rural land 100 10x10 meters. Rural land is 1 $/meter2
Office chair 80 Arm rests. Head rest. Swivel. Wheels. 6 kg
🛋 Couch
Table
🌱 Seeds 20
Building supply🪵Lumber
🪨Stones, gravel, sand
⌶ Aluminum beams
Cement
🖌Paint
Health ♥ Life signs monitor 100 Wristwatch. Broadcasts to your private cloud service
🩸Microcameras 100 Wearable. Broadcasts to your private cloud service. Also has microphones
☁ Cloud service 200 If you are hurt, agents act
🩸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
👓Glasses 30
Natural resource🌊Water
🌲Trees
Grass
Rental Mower
Hose
🚚Truck
Trailer
🪚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.
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 it 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 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 heat pads and electronics.
A 1000 Watt gasoline-electric generator costs $100.
A gasoline motor costs $100 and has a power of 2000 Watts. You can attach it to
most vehicles.
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.
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.
Mass Protein Calories Cost Cost per mass
gram gram $ $/kg
Chicken 330 100 900 1.6 5
Rice 300 16 1000 .9 3
Butter 50 0 360 .5 10
Milk 1000 33 422 1.0 4
Total 149 2682 4.0
Vitamins are easy. Almost all vitamins fit in one pill, except for potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium. These vitamins can be obtained in raw chemical form for cheap. The daily vitamin requirement is:
Requirement Source
gram/day
Potassium 3.5 Potassium phosphate
Phosphorus 1.0 Potassium phosphate
Calcium 1.0 Calcium chloride (Most soluble form of calcium)
Magnesium .35 Magnesium chloride
Iron .27
Zinc .075
Manganese .075
Copper .022
The plot shows the protein and calorie content of food. Foods with high protein and low fat are to the lower right.
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A chair should have:
*) A high back, high enough to support your head
*) Arm rests that are retractable
*) Reclinability
*) Swiveling
*) Wheels
*) Space underneath the chair for your feet
*) Padding
For outdoor benches, there should be a canopy for rain and walls for wind. There should be benches in the sun for cold weather and benches in the shade for hot weather. Some benches should have tables.
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Your feet should be free to move. A table should be wide so that the table legs don't obstruct your
feet.
The chair should also not obstruct your feet.
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A shopping cart can be a locker if you add a top to it, and it can be locked to immovable objects.
A city could provide space for shopping cart parking.
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Energy/$ 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.
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Prime farmland is 1 $/meter2 and wilderness land can be much less. City land is usually more than 1000 $/meter2.
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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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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.
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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The cost of an MRI machine is equal to the field strength in Tesla times $1 million. MRI machines can go up to 7 Tesla.
High-end medical MRI machines have a strength of 3 Tesla and cost $3 million. Operating cost is $2 million per year. A full-body scan takes 2 hours and costs $500.
Operating costs for a 3 Tesla machine:
M$/year
Liquid helium .04
Electricity .25
Operator .13
Nurse .10
Front desk .055
Radiologist .72 Interprests scans
Maintenance .15
Supplies .09
Machine capital cost .38 3 million dollars over an 8-year lifetime
Total 2.1
A community can volunteer for some of the staffing to reduce overall cost. AI can help with interpreting scans. It should be possible to reduce the operating cost of an MRI machine to $1.5 million per year.
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
Drugs
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
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 dog
Suit & overcoat
Weapons. Knife, pepper spray, air-powered gun, air horn, smoke bombs, noise bombs, etc.
Comforts: Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco
Headphones. Quality audio input
Ave Street Time Rank
107 105 Tue 1 *** Zion Tabernacle. 105-01 107th. 718 717 9993
89 102 Sat 9 *** Calvary's mission 102-16 89th Ave. 718-849-0311
89 119 Sat 9 *** River Fund 89-11 Lefferts. Sat 9 if age<60. Wed 9 if age>60. 718 441 1125
101 120 Sat 9 ** 120-13 101 Ave. 4th Saturday of the month only
101 119 Fri 3:30 ** Agape Seventh Day Adventist Church of Richmond Hill. 97-25 Lefferts Boulevard
109 130 Mon 9 ** Saint Teresa. 109-24 130th St. 718-529-3587. Also Thursday at 9
105 120 Fri 12 * Christina Home Care Services 917-592-8686. 120-19 Liberty Ave
110 150 Tue 9 * BLANCHE MEMORIAL CHURCH 109-74 Sutphin Blvd. 718-658-2458
109 143 Thu 12 * Brooks Memorial United Methodist 718 658 8822
87 111 Fri 7 * Elohim Community Development 87-47 111th st. 917-916-3066
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