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The goal is to equip people with stuff to enable them to function, for cheap. It can be done for less than $2000.
The homeless need a full-length coat, plus accessories like a hat, gloves, and rain pants. They also need electric heaters in the coat and batteries for the heaters.
You need a smartphone and phone service, plus a keyboard. Coat batteries power the electronics.
You need a vehicle. A possibility for a cheap vehicle is a trike with a gasoline or electric motor. The vehicle should have a lockable trunk. If you're in a city, it helps to have a locker. Even better, give the vehicle a cabin that can be heated and that can be slept in.
You need land, and rural land is cheap. If you have access to building material you can build your own house.
You need access to natural resources and machines to harness them. A saw mill can tap a rock quarry and a forest. A Stirling generator converts biomass to electricity. Grass can be harnessed with grazing livestock.
The prime expenses are:
$
Coat 100 Full-length and waterproof. Includes hood and rain pants. Has puffy insulation. Includes lightweight tarp.
Phone 100 Includes keyboard
Power for coat 100 Battery and electric heat pads. Butane heaters and air circulatory system
Vehicle 500 Trike with cabin, trunk, locks, and GPS trackers
Wood stove 100 Device for using wood for a stove, heater, and electricity generator
Rural land 100
House 100 Tent and lightweight furniture
Food 1500/year
Phone service 200/year
Medical ?/year
Many things can be obtained from donations or salvage.
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A coat should be full-length, waterproof, and hooded.
Insulation quality is proportional to thickness/density. The coat should have a low-density fill.
The coat should have a stiff frame and a hip strap to make it easy to carry things. Include abundant pockets.
Equip the coat with electrict heat pads and a control panel for the pads. Also include inflatable air bags, a circulatory system, and a pump, because air is the best insulator.
A platinum catalytic heater can burn butane flamelessly, and has much more heating power than batteries. The circulatory system can deliver hot air throughout the coat.
Cities should have AC power for the homeless.
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A trike with a cabin solves many problems. The cabin is shelter and can be heated, you can sleep in it, and you can store stuff in it. If you don't have a cabin, the next best thing is a lockable trunk.
A trike enables you to get to gigs, and it enables you to have a house on remote rural land.
The components of a trike are:
$
Trike, 2 seat 300 The front seat reclines to make a bed
Trunk that locks 50
Gasoline motor 150 100 cc, 3000 Watts, 40 mph
Wheel repair kit 30
Locks and cables 50
Cameras 30 Broadcasting live to the cloud and to the police
Tracking devices 30 Stealthfully embedded in the trike, trunk, and trailer
Generator 50 Extracts electricity from the motor
Cabin 100 The trike can be a sleeping shelter
Trailer 100
A trike can tow a trailer.
The motor can be gasoline or electric. A gasoline motor can heat the cabin. A generator can extract electricity from the motor.
A trike can be assembled from a junkyard.
Food is cheaper if you can cook. You can cook outdoors with coal. Have aluminum foil and a small aluminum pan.
Hookah coal is smokeless and can be used indoors.
To harness food pantries, you need to cook.
Things that are infinite at pantries:
Meat Tomato sauce Onions Canned food: beans, vegetables, fruit Carbs: Pasta, Rice, Lentils Potatoes Canola oil Walnut Canned tomato sauce Apple Soup, either canned or in heavy plastic
Things that are common but not infinite:
Tomato Cheese Bell peppers Frozen berries Nuts other than walnut Cucumber Lettuce Tangerine and nectarine Eggs Milk
Things that appear only occasionally and are highly desired:
Avocado Cheese Bell pepper Tomato Coconut milk Orange juice
Things that almost never appear and are highly desired:
Cream cheese Mushrooms Olive Garlic Spices Lemon juice Lime juice Chili pepper Sour cream Salt
Nut price in dollars per pound:
Peanut 2.5 Sunflower 4 Sesame 5 Almond 6 Pistachio 6 Pecan 7 Cashew 7 Walnut 8 Chestnut 10
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A shopping cart is a truck.
A shopping cart can be a locker if you add a top to it. A city should provide space for
shopping cart parking.
Prime farmland is 1 $/meter2 and wilderness land can be much less.
City land is usually more than 1000 $/meter2.
If you have access to building material, you can build your own house.
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.
A Stirling generator converts heat to electricity and can run on biomass.
You can cook outdoors with coal, and you can cook indoors with hookah coal.
Hookah coal produces minimal smoke.
Forest and grass produce .5 Watts of biomass energy per meter2 per year.
Sources of electrical power:
You can feed a person for $4 a day with chicken, rice, and dairy products. These are among the
cheapest proteins, carbs, and fats.
Carbs are cheap but they need sauce.
The expensive part of sauce is the fat source, and cheap fat sources include
dairy products and nut oil.
An example of a day's food is:
What counts is "calories per dollar" and "protein per dollar", which are plotted below.
Cheap proteins are to0 the right and cheap calories are to the top.
Foods with high calories/$ include peanuts, pasta, rice, bread, and milk.
Foods with high protein/$ inlude chicken, milk, and peanuts.
Foods with high fat/$ include:
Power/$ Power/Mass Energy/$
Watt/$ Watt/kg MJoule/$
Battery, lithium-ion 7 400 .01
Battery, lead-acid 58 180 .045
Generator, gasoline 10 100 - Converts gasoline to heat to electricity
Generator, Stirling 10 30 - Converts biomass to heat to electricity
Solar cell .2 20 -
Wind turbine 1 10 -
Water turbine 1 30 -
Generator, hand crank .4 40 -
Mass Protein Calories Cost Cost per mass
gram gram $ $/kg
Chicken 330 100 900 1.6 5
Rice 300 16 1000 .9 3
Butter 50 0 360 .5 10
Milk 1000 33 422 1.0 4
Total 149 2682 4.0
Calories/Cost Calories/Mass Cost/Mass
Cal/$ Cal/kg $/kg
Wheat flour 1213 3640 3.0
Peanut 1260 5670 4.5
Pasta 1194 3701 3.1
Rice 1150 3330 2.9
Peanut butter 1095 6570 6
Oil, olive 982 8840 9
Oil, peanut 982 8840 9
Wheat flour 910 3640 4.
Wheat bread 890 2670 3.0
Milk 750 600 .8
Butter 717 7170 10
Chicken drum 713 2140 3
Oats 650 3890 6.0
Mountain Dew 440 440 1.0
Cheese 403 4030 10
Chicken breast 390 1950 5
Beans, refried 362 1450 4
Mackerel 312 1560 5
Tomato paste 182 820 4.5
Protein/Cost Protein/Mass Cost/Mass Protein/Cost
gram/$ gram/kg $/kg
Chicken 61 303 5
Milk, powder 53 263 5.0
Turkey 49 293 6
Mackerel 46 232 5
Pork 45 224 5
Milk, whole 41 33 .8
Peanut 40 267 6.6
Egg 30 120 4
Bread, wheat 30 91 3
Cheddar 28 283 10
Beef 27 247 9
Peanut 57 258 4.5
Fat Cost Fat
g/$ $/kg g/kg
Oil, olive 111 9 1000
Peanut 109 4.5 492
Peanut butter 88 6 530
Butter 81 10 811
Heavy cream 53 7 370
Milk, whole, powder 53 5.0 267
Oil, sunflower 45 22 1000
Cheese 33 10 331
Milk, whole 32 .8 32
Heavy cream powder 25 30 750
Butter powder 23 33 750
Chicken 15 5.0 77
Guacamole 10 15 143
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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Calcium is abundant in cheese and milk and rare in other foods. The calcium content of food is:
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The plot shows the phosphorus and potassium content of food.
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A chair should have:
*) A high back, preferably high enough to support your head.
*) Arm rests.
*) Space underneath the chair for your feet.
*) Padding.
*) Curvature.
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.
Much can be had for free from churches, junkyards, and the salvation army.
Clothing is abundant.
Schools should have classes on junk engineering.
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Media subscriptions
Game subscriptions
Gamestation
VR goggles
Tickets to minor league baseball games
Drugs
Cigarettes shouldn't be taxed. It's a regressive tax and it hurts the poor.
Mild drugs such as marijuana and codeine should be free.
Making drugs available from a secure source minimizes the risk of encountering fentanyl.
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For heat, the options are platinum heaters and battery heaters. A platinum heater is like a butane lighter but with no flame. The butane is reacted flamelessly with a platinum catalyst. In a battery heater, a battery heats a heat pad.
Platinum heaters are powerful, long-lasting, cheap, and you don't need an electrical outlet. A Zippo platinum heater costs $20, produces 13 Watts, and the butane costs 28 cents a day. The specs are:
Power = 13 Watt Butane burn rate = 23 gram/day Butane cost/day = .28 $/day Butane cost/mass = 12 $/kg
A heater can be built with a battery and a resistor (a heat pad).
A lithium-ion D cell has the same energy as a typical external battery. It can power a 10 Watt heat pa for 3 hours.
Battery energy = E = 107 kJoule Heat power = P = 10 Watt Operating time = T = E/P = 10700 seconds = 3 hours
The specs for a lithium ion battery and a heat pad are:
Battery voltage = V = I R = 4 Volts Head pad resistance = R = 2.5 Ohms Electric current = I = 1.6 Amperes Heat power = P = V I = V2/R = 6.4 Watts
You can't use a battery pack, because they're programmed to shut off if connected to a dead-load resistor. You have to use raw batteries and wire them yourself to the heat pad.
A typical heat pad produces 10 Watts if driven by a 5 Volt battery pack. A raw lithium-ion battery has a voltage of 4 Volts, and this is an appropriate voltage. Connecting a heat pad to a 4-Volt battery yields 6 Watts. If you wire the batteries in series for 8 Volts, the yield is 26 Watts, which is too much.
Use big batteries, specifically C or D cells. Then you don't have to wire them together in parallel. A D cell can power a heat pad for 3 hours.
Use thick wires. The minimum wire diameter for a 10 Watt heat pad is .5 mm. Use a diameter of at least 1 mm.
Be wary when buying batteries. Buy only from Panasonic or Sony. Never buy from China. Chinese manufacturers fib about specs.
There are heat pads with a battery included. Avoid them. The battery is feeble.
For lithium-ion batteries, D cell have an energy of 107 kJoules, C cells have 67 kJoules, and A cells have 47 kJoules.
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