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The goal is to equip people with stuff so that they can function. You need a phone, a coat, heaters, a computer, a small vehicle, and a small piece of land. Maximize bang for buck with science.
Bootstrap catalog:
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Phone 0 Primary. Government service
Phone 0 Backup. Included with Spectrum service
Keyboard 25 Foldable. Fits in a pocket
Tablet 40 6 inch screen. Fits in a pocket. Serves as a screen for a computer or phone
Batteries 40 Powers the electronics or makes heat
Spectrum internet 40 Inclues a phone with unlimited data. Price is per month
Coat, full-length 50 Lightweight. Waterproof. Hood. Supersized. Abundant interior pockets
Coat, puffer 30 Lightweight. Fits under the full-length coat. Doesn't need to be full-length
Pants, waterproof 15 Lightweight. Can be folded to fit into a pocket in the overcoat
Hat, heated 15
Socks, heated 15
Gloves, heated 15
Heat pads 15 Best placed on your back, but can be placed anywhere
Heater, butane 20 Flameless. Uses a platinum catalyst. Butane is cheap
Suit pants 30
Suit shirt 30
Suit shoes 40
Suit coat 40
Belt 15
Tie 15
Scooter, electric 110 The battery can power heat pads and electronics. It can have a lockable trunk. 500 Watt. Range of 30 km
Tent 90 10x8x6 feet. 5 kg
Office chair 70 Arm rests. Head rest. Swivel. Wheels. 5.7 kg
Camping chair 35 Folds. 3.2 kg
Table 35 Folding. Wide, so that your feet are free to move without bumping into the front legs of the table
Comforter 50 Serves as a mattress and as a blanket
Computer, mini PC 220 32 GByte RAM. GPU. Runs AI software well
Battery, 19 Volt 80 Powers the computer and heat pads. Can also do 12 and 5 Volt
SD card 30 512 GB. Serves as a backup for data on the computer
Headphones 25 50 mm speaker. Fully covers the ear. Microphone. Great for mental health. Great for blocking noise
Generator 100 1000 Watts, 10 kg
Life signs monitor 100 Broadcasts continuously to a cloud service that takes action if you are hurt
Swiss army knife 30 Small. Knife, scissors, saw, needle pliars, cutting pliars, awl, can opener
Gun, air-powered 80 No permit needed. Pepper cartridges
Tennis racket 20 Serves for self defense
Knife 10 Serves for self defense
Rural land 100 10x10 meters. Rural land is 1 $/meter2
Critical items need backups. You need 2 phones.
Things a city can provide for the poor:
Outdoor AC power. Install meters on the outlets and give poor people credit for electricity
Coal and butane
Lockers and a safe place to secure bikes
A safe place to sleep
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A coat should be full-length, waterproof, hooded, lightweight, supersized, and have abundant pockets. A puffer coat should fit underneath.
Insulation quality is proportional to thickness/density. The puffer coat should have a low-density fill. Bird down has lower density than any synthetic fill.
A coat can have a stiff frame and a hip strap to make it easy to carry things.
A deluxe coat can have electric 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 coat circulatory system can deliver hot air from the heater throughout the coat.
A vehicle enables you to get to gigs and it enables you to have a house on
remote rural land.
The simplest vehicle is a folding electric scooter.
A $110 scooter has a 500 Watt motor, moves at 20 mph, and has a range of 20 miles.
It has a 1 MegaJoule battery that can power heat pads and electronics.
A trike costs $300 and you can add a gasoline motor for $150. It has a power of 2000 Watts and a top speed of
30 mph. A generator for recharging batteries can be added for $100. It can have a lockable trunk and it can tow a trailer.
A trike with a cabin is a shelter and can be heated.
You can sleep in it and store stuff in it.
Components:
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:
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Electric scooter 110
Trike 400
Gasoline motor kiy 80 50 cc, 2000 Watts
Generator 100 1000 Watts of electricity. 10 kg
Trunk that locks 30
Bike wheel repair kit 20
Locks and cables 30
Tracking devices 30 Stealthfully embedded in the vehicle
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 $/kg
Chicken 61 303 5
Milk, powder 53 263 5.0
Turkey 49 293 6
Mackerel 46 232 5
Pork 45 224 5
Milk, whole 41 33 .8
Peanut 40 267 6.6
Egg 30 120 4
Bread, wheat 30 91 3
Cheddar 28 283 10
Beef 27 247 9
Peanut 57 258 4.5
Fat Cost Fat
g/$ $/kg g/kg
Oil, olive 111 9 1000
Peanut 109 4.5 492
Peanut butter 88 6 530
Butter 81 10 811
Heavy cream 53 7 370
Milk, whole, powder 53 5.0 267
Oil, sunflower 45 22 1000
Cheese 33 10 331
Milk, whole 32 .8 32
Heavy cream powder 25 30 750
Butter powder 23 33 750
Chicken 15 5.0 77
Guacamole 10 15 143
Vitamins are easy. Almost all vitamins fit in one pill, except for potassium, phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium. These vitamins can be obtained in raw chemical form for cheap. The daily vitamin requirement is:
Requirement Source
gram/day
Potassium 3.5 Potassium phosphate
Phosphorus 1.0 Potassium phosphate
Calcium 1.0 Calcium chloride (Most soluble form of calcium)
Magnesium .35 Magnesium chloride
Iron .27
Zinc .075
Manganese .075
Copper .022
The plot shows the protein and calorie content of food. Foods with high protein and low fat are to the lower right.
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Calcium is abundant in cheese and milk and rare in other foods. The calcium content of food is:
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The plot shows the phosphorus and potassium content of food.
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A shopping cart is a truck.
A shopping cart can be a locker if you add a top to it. A city should provide space for shopping cart parking.
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Energy/$ 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.
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.
Furniture matters for meditation.
A chair should have:
*) A high back, preferably high enough to support your head
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.
Your feet should be free to move. A table should be wide so that your feet don't bump into the front legs of the table.
The chair should allow your feet to move backward.
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.
*) Arm rests
*) Reclining
*) Space underneath the chair for your feet
*) Padding
*) Curvature
Price/kg
$/kg
Lumber .1
Magnesium 2.5
Aluminum 2.7
Steel .75
Concrete .08
Plastic 1
Plexiglass 20
Styrofoam 1.5 Density is from 10 to 40 kg/meter3
Carbon fiber 20
Gravel .12
Sand .12
Stone, cheap .15
Granite .8
Rubber, new 2.5
Rubber, recycled .4
Rubber, scrap .1
Freshwater .001
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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:
Much can be had for free from churches, junkyards, and the salvation army.
Clothing is abundant.
Schools should have classes on junk engineering.
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 $
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Media subscriptions
Game subscriptions
Gamestation
VR goggles
Tickets to minor league baseball games
Drugs
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.
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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:
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+$120
Minisforum 32 77 3380 320 .10 10.6 140 8 16 - 4.8 .5 AMD Radeon 680M
Bosgame 3550H 32 30 1130 220 .15 5.1 65 4 8 - 3.7 .5 4 AMD Radeon Vega 8
Raspberry Pi5 16 9.6 0 150 .11 .064 27 4 4 - 2.4 - Size .7x2.7x3.4 inch
Raspberry Pi5 8 9.6 0 100 .08 .096 27 4 4 - 2.4 - Size .7x2.7x3.4 inch
Raspberry Pi0 2W .5 4 0 35 .014 .11 12 4 4 - 1.0 - Size .5x1.3x2.7 inch
Components:
CPU speed/$ .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
GPUs:
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
Prices from Amazon.
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
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.
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
A person should never be separated from:
Life signs monitor, with communication with a cloud service that will rescue you if you are hurt
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
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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
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