4/26/2004
6:41 PM
The path
forward
On the design
of micro-farm ecosystem
Sustainable
and environmentally beneficial
biomass
conversion technologies
Dave,
The preliminary meetings at Shenandoah University were excellent, but follow up is needed.
Timing is critical. I need to figure out how your Australian work might play in the design of a proposal to take before the Board of Supervisors of Clarke County, Virginia. My current research is on how to approach a meeting with the Board.
We also need to develop coherent and consistent language on what is a “microFarm ecosystem”. I sometimes say “pharmaceutical farming” and sometimes “biotechnology”. Sometimes I say “nutraceuticals farming”.
My wife was questioning me about why vineyards and inulin producing plants (tubers) could both be considered "nutraceuticals" production facilities. I opened up your PowerPoint on the Australian work and found on the first slide:
Mission: delivering products from Australian and eventually worldwide agriculture through the application of sustainable and environmentally beneficial biomass conversion technologies."
So I am able to re characterize the project to:
"Mission: Cause the formation of a distributed micro-farm co-op
having between 10 - 30 micro-farms located in various places in Clarke County,
Virginia. Each micro-farm will be
privately owned (owned by a Clarke County citizen not by a non-resident
Corporation) and operated by the owner.
The individual micro-farms may have more than one product, but in most
cases the products will be an application of sustainable and
environmentally beneficial biomass conversion technologies
One example is a vineyard. A farm growing specialty plants could also quality, as could new types of nutraceuticals and pharmaceutical farming. The production of ethanol could also qualify. Biomass production from aquaculture might be developed in small experimental ponds, but there are no examples of aquaculture in Clarke County (that I have found as yet.) Production of herbs and organic framing could qualify.
One of the keys that connect the different types of biomass conversion technologies is the Anticipatory Web technology.
The work on describing the Anticipatory Web concept and technology resulted in the following:
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/techInnovation/thirtythree.htm
I restated and made specific the underlying concept that allows Ontology referential bases (Orb) information processing to occur at two orders of magnitude less bit-state changes and thus at very fast rates of processes using very little computer memory. This was in response to a position paper circulated by CoreSystem founder, Sandy Klausner.
Some new thoughts on MicroFarm ecosystem resulted in
http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/microFarm/eleven.htm
Within a single county, we envision 10 - 20 micro farms (5 - 40 acres) - each producing some elements having common markets and common production chains.
The microFarm co-op would be involved in
1) Anticipating production raw materials and acquiring these for the common good of the co-op
2) Anticipating market needs and directing the marketing of product
3) Providing educational resources, via real time Internet and face to face meetings, for the Nutraceutical production unit (a microFarm)
4) The development of educational modules for school systems in other parts of the country.
The anticipatory aspects of high productivity within a microFarm ecosystem requires almost perfect knowledge of the control elements of the acquisition of raw materials, production of biomass, and the distribution of product to end consumers.
The use of some aspects of Total Information Awareness technology evaluations in the development of Anticipatory Web of Information has followed work detailed in several threads of what we call the bcngroup community glass bead game.
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