But we don’t all need yachts because the green ammonia shipping lets the goods come to us? And there could be a lot less of us.
From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of steve smith Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2025 1:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Conversations with George Marcus wrote: Send me stuff! 😊 Investment Estimate for Solar-Powered Green Ammonia for Maritime Shipping Objective my post-scarcity techno-utopian material-culture-accumulation preference would be pipelines of feedstocks of undifferentiated atomic elements (carbon, silicon, oxygen, hydrogen, iron (and molecular ammonia too?)) and matter assemblers on the scale of a microwave or refrigerator (or garage) to configure whatever material-culture items my whims demand of them. Stephenson's Diamond Age. Human "designers" may still be required (or valued) for the step of distinguishing amongst the leaves of arbitrarily complex possibility bushes to yield "interesting" ones (in the sense of what an artisan once did to translate generic concepts like "shoe" or "cooking pot" or "sailing schooner" into the specific and relevant instantiations of use/interest to the "customers". Edge located decompilers would replace trashcans, dumpsters, recycle bins, landfills and salvage yards and would circularize material economies at all scales? We can all have Bezos/Zuck class (green ammonia-powered) mega-yachts with helicopters even if we have to take turns docking at valued locations? Or play demolition derby with them as we vie for the scarce docking spaces? (Occupy Coastlines!) That would be oldSkool ideation... newSkool might be home-built (or neighborhood scale) space elevators to build minecraft-designed space platforms out of gathered defunct starlink satellites (and other space-junk), forming planet-shading scale structures that relieve global warming while establishing a dyson-sphere patchwork of habitats. (Occupy GeoSync Orbit!) Or... (stop me now!)
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