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Part 6: Necessary Components for Community Sustainability

Generation of Raw Materials

Historically, this has been one of the areas in which large scale production was necessary because of the uneven distribution of the starting materials for generating raw materials. For example, iron ore and coal are generally not evenly distributed throughout the world and this led to the creation of the first major concentrated industrial technologies; coke manufacturing, iron smelting and steel production.

Yet this is one of the areas that the greatest advance in science has taken place within the fourth industrial revolution. It is now known how we can break down sand into its constituents through the use of advanced fluorine chemistry driven by electrical power. This process can adequately provide iron, aluminum, magnesium, manganese, silicon and all the other essential components needed to build the machinery and equipment that are necessary to maintain advanced civilization...all from sand!

A small modular plant, no bigger than 2,000 square feet, could produce between ten and one hundred tons of materials a day. A local community could easily afford to build and maintain a plant of this size. And through this, be capable of producing all of its needed machinery and equipment.

Clean Water Production and Delivery
Food
Shelter and Transportation
Lighting
Heating
Clothing
Medicine
Sanitation and Waste Disposal
Generation of Raw Materials
Chemical Processing
Processing of Raw Materials - Tool and Die
Communication
Computing Technology
Education
Maintaining of Standards
Justice
Defense

Part 7: Our Future Under the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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