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This conception of a new community, a coalition, has been in the works in my studio for about ten years in one way or another. I will discuss my background more at length in other areas and say here that the coalition started with the idea of designing objects better in terms of sustainability. In beginning a couple of other business plans with the intention of founding a better building company, I realized that the buildings themselves, and the things themselves, were not the focus of my attention. I realized that if you look at an object with a long view (over time), especially a building or car, the object is not so much the materials that comprise it (though important) as it is energy. Buildings are energy. Things are energy. How do we make them? Where do they come from? How much energy do they require to function? A car, if it lasts, say 15 years, and consumes one tank of fuel per week (say 20 gallons), will use 14,400 gallons in its short lifetime, which is a volume of just over 1,925 cubic feet of fuel, roughly seven times the volume of the entire car. At the end of its career, that automobile is more energy (fuel) than it is steel, plastic and upholstery, and has produced several fold more carbon by weight than its own mass We are entering an age where questions of energy consumption, value, and total cost must be undertaken in a new way, and by everyone, everywhere.
My intention in setting up The Archimedes Coalition is to create a forum where these challenging questions can be asked, where solutions and implementations can be discovered quickly, in a broad array of geographical locations, and by means of a new orientation to how the internet can function to solve material problems quickly.
The Archimedes Coalition (AC) will function in several ways as an umbrella entity for "legacy companies." The first companies I wish to place under this umbrella are Revovle©--Static and Revolve©--Dynamic. I will outline them later in the business plan. The mission for The AC as a container for an as yet unknown volume of other efforts and ideas is as follows:
The Archimedes Coalition is an online server technology that specializes in a distinct formulation of a shift in energy consumption: one that shifts infrastructural energy needs from grid style nationalized energy demand, to locally sourced, independent energy technologies. In providing networks, semantically oriented software, geographically specific resources, and tutorials, the Archimedes Coalition will provide the groundwork for a broad shift in ecological and economic policy, energy consumption in every sector, new infrastructure design, local business development, financial schemata, industrial design, and humanitarian relief. A secondary role the Coalition plays is patent formulation: in any case ideas present in the online forum can be made into patents, or where new patents could be formed with combinatorics, the AC will act to secure patents, get products to market and distribute a specified royalty to those members of the coalition who offered the ideas.
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