By: Murray Guy | Lean Lab
Venture Capitalist and co-founder of
PayPal, Peter Thiel built a hugely successful company based upon
Contrarian thinking. “Find an important
truth about something you believe to be true, that very few people agree with
you on, figure out a Factor 10 times superior solution” and become one of the companies to build the future.
Paul Hanley, author of ELEVEN, couldn't agree more about Factor
10. As that is the absolute minimum amount
of resource use reduction needed for there to be a future for the 11 Billion
people that will occupy this planet by 2100. What this means is innovation and a commitment are needed to reduce our current ecological footprint of 1.6 planets that is not sustainable. Paul is very
optimistic that we can be successful and if we all get going on this soon. Then just maybe we won't be needing to buy tickets to MARS.
Factor Ten is the radical idea that humanity must reduce
resource turnover by 90% on a global scale within the next 30 to 50 years and
that human energy
use and material flows are currently unsustainable and destructive to the environment. To
achieve dematerialization, Factor 10 proposes that within the next generation,
human energy use must decrease by a factor of 10, and resource productivity and
efficiency must increase by a factor of 10.
Elon Musk on the other hand
despite doing everything possible with the Tesla electric car company and installing
PV panels across the country, is a little less optimistic that we have what it
takes to get Factor 10 done! So he is working
real hard at getting the SpaceX ship ready for blastoff.
Musk, as he will
gladly tell you, has a vision: Colonize
Mars and make humans a multi-planet civilization. He sees it as insurance
against a global catastrophe that leads to human extinction. (Quartz)
To make it affordable to blast off into space, Elon Musk has adopted
lean practices that enable SpaceX to build rockets at half the cost. In his
self titled book we learn what it takes to launch successful
clean-tech start-ups.
"The secret to the low cost is relatively
simple, at least in principle: Do as much as possible in-house, in an
integrated manufacturing facility, with modern components; and avoid the
unwieldy supply chains, legacy designs, layers of contractors, and “cost-plus”
billing that characterized SpaceX’s competitors."
To make it affordable to blast a Broken Building into the
future, we need to adopt these same waste reducing, productivity improving
and value creating activities to create Factor10 buildings and communities.
As a pilot we decided to test out the assumption that we could build
Factor 10 designs pioneered by building scientists like Rob Dumont at no
additional cost. With five Net 0 targeted pilot projects in progress we have
been successful in demonstrating that Factor 10 is economically viable. In fact,
we can go beyond that and deliver Net 0 energy buildings at Net 0 additional
cost with the right people as
demonstrated by Dennis Cuku on the Mosaic Project in Edmonton.
As we venture forward with Factor 10 as the target and lean as the
strategy we can be confident that the building industry can take care of their 40% of the climate change problem.
So Elon, you don't need to launch that rocket
just yet. The world is
waking up to the fact that climate change is a reality and that the cost of
prevention is much less than dealing with the collapse of our civilization.
So WHY not give Lean Project Delivery a GO, join the Factor 10 Revolution and help
establish Net 0 buildings as a mega-trend.
Have an awesome day while
contributing to preserving the beautiful planet Earth!
Thank you QUARTZ for this wonderful article on Space Travel ... or is it Lean Project Delivery?
What it took for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to disrupt Boeing, leapfrog NASA, and become a serious space company - Quartz:
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