Project VAULT
After the end of the cold war, and the fall of the soviet union, the swedish
military is decreasing in size, decreasing the number of troops as well as
military installations. FFV (fortifikationsverket http://www.fortv.se/ )
are selling out some of the sites that are decided to lack a strategic
value. Our Goal here is to buy a former defence installation dug into
nuclear-safe depth in the hard swedish rock, there we will establish a
library with systems for automatic fireprotection, as well as a server-room
for our databases. Hopefully we will achieve for the world of today what the
library of Alexandria was then, but without the risk of burning down (or
up).
Project Biosphere
The biosphere projects run by NASA is very interesting indeed, both for
exploring how other planets might be settled, as well as parts of our planet
that is to hostile to sustain human life today. It is also deemed
interesting from how we might survive after some major catastrophy, be it a
cataclysmic change in climate or even a nuclear war. We have decided to
start our own biosphere project, but that we will impose other constraints
on the project than NASA did on theirs.
NASAs aproach was to calculate exactly what was needed and starting with that, if/when it was discovered that something was missing, and that something did not work the project was stopped and they started to calculate again.
We will start with an educated guess, probably using NASA's results, and when we notice that something is wrong, be it that there was to little soil for the crops, we will add it and make a note about it. This will continue until we have got a stable selfsustaining biosphere. Then we will calculate exactly what amount of resources was used, and in what order they had to be added and use that as base for a report and our design for a future biosphere.
We have also decided that it is not that interesting to find out how people react while being forced to live together during a long period of time, there are allready a lot of studies of this, so we will be able to change personell inside the biosphere during the project. all we have to do is being very careful about not loosing or gaining material during the change..
Project Academy
We wish to create an academy where interested researchers as well as all our
members may go to study or take part of stored information free of cost. You
may stay as long as you wish and study whatever you want, in return for
doing some hours of work. It might be helping to catalogue the books or just
writing down a comment about the book you are studying.
The academy is planned to be as selfsustaining in energy and heating as
possible, using solar and wind power, as well as pumping up heat from the
ground.
Project Harvest
There are many good resources of ancient technologies and handicraft out
on the web. Quite often entusiasts that burn for their subject and manages
to aquire a good deal of information on their favourite subject.
Sadly these sites disappear after a while. We wish to "mirror" all such sites
we find, not to republish them, since that might be copyright violation.
But to preserve the data, and after a while reorganize and make it searchable
for members. For this we need an ever increasing amount of storagespace which
you may donate to us.