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Let’s talk about

SustainAbility

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Hackaday Sustainability Prize, 2022

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Climate Crisis Anxiety is real

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Our choices today will make the future

awesome or miserable

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Will we make choices that

give us more time�or speed up the clock?

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Hence,

SustainAbility

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Sustain

Ability

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Sustain

Ability

Minimize

Impact

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Sustain

Ability

Minimize

Impact

Maximize

Potential

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Why?

Survive long enough

to expand to space

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100,000,000,000x more

resources available off Earth

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One nearby asteroid (16 Psyche) may contain

more nickel than all of Earth

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How can we

do more with less?

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Comparable light

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7x less energy

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Comparable size and price

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5x less energy

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Comparable resources

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30x faster

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There’s so much more to do

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Homes (>20% of energy)

  • Local production
  • Affordable storage
  • Reducing consumption
  • Time-shifting

energy.gov

Example non-profit in the space:

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Transportation (>20% of emissions)

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60% of car trips are less than 6 miles

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How can we make efficient options

faster, safer and more convenient?

energy.gov

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Plastics (<9% recycled)

Scalable processing

Globally valuable reuse

Evolve past single-use

epa.gov

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Accelerate Space Resources

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Discovery

Harvesting

Processing

Manufacturing

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Sustain

Ability

Minimize

Impact

Maximize

Potential

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Are you ready

to expand our future?

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