LICHEN ENGINEERING
The most intelligent technology on the planet
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SELF ORGANISING
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SELF HEALING
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OPTIMISED FOR MAXIMUM POWER
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OPTIMISED FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY
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OPTIMISED FOR 100% SUSTAINABILITY
The most intelligent technology on the planet
We hold the keys to beyond the future of AI
AI is facing an immediate and unacknowledged systemic threat - thermodynamic collapse of the supporting fabric. By 2030, exponential growth in energy demand by ICT data is on track to consume over 50% of global energy, a scaling requirement that simply cannot be met with any known legacy technology.
Lichen Engineering was conceived to specifically address this threat, coming at the challenge from both data and energy infrastructure perspectives with a radical departure from conventional thinking, by simply observing and mimicking what has already been proven to work by Life on Earth.
We are an Irish, cutting-edge, R&D energy and networking company. Team members and associates are distributed in Ireland, The Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, the USA, Australia, as well as in a number of Middle Eastern, Latin American, and Asian countries.
We are systems-thinking, science, engineering and finance people with over 50 years of transdisciplinary expertise in engineering, technology development and marketing, thermodynamics, systems dynamics, ecology and anthropology.
We have figured out how to address the core challenges of our time, climate, polycrisis and all, by redesigning how we access and use energy. We plan to implement our patented package of breakthroughs over 20 years, in a rapidly self-funding, highly profitable way, unleashing a new era of sustainable prosperity for all involved.
This speaks for itself. It has not been easy, with numerous knocks along the way. We persevered. We've arrived.
Technology
Combining energy, data and communications layers into a single integrated, self organising, self healing structure - lessons from lichens
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Biomimetics
LOGIC THAT EMULATES NATURE'S THERMODYNAMICS
Enables moving from 88% wasteful uses of energy to well over 200% productive uses with Energy Returns On energy Investments (EROIs) above 30:1, net-zero greenhouse gases and a return to within safe and just Earth-System Boundaries (ESBs).
Facilitating access to an over €10 Trillion/year global market.
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The GreenBox Power Plant
NOT AN "ENGINE" BUT A SUBSET OF THE NEW nGENI TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM
Enables producing point-of-use power generation appliances (1kW to 1MW), extendable to agricultural, industrial, commercial and residential settings.
Projected cost less than €0.04/kWh and less than €500/kW installed.
Drastically reduced emissions, works with any fuel, heat input or advanced direct concentrated solar for stationary applications.
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Self Organising Network
COMPLEMENTARY nS.O. SUBSET OF THE NEW nGENI TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM
A fractal, layered mesh networking architecture creating a resilient “small world” for efficient communications and energy networking.
Enables the deployment of advanced Intelligent Energy and Communications Networks (IECNs) to form the Cool Planet Internet of Energy.
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Viral Business Model
NESTED DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS
Users and participants are all stakeholders - low price/high volume licensing framework forming Value Adding Partnerships.
Early co-developers benefit from energy recovery, cost reductions and accelerated manufacturing right on the business front line.
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Viral Financial Model
ENERGY BACKED BLOCKCHAIN TOKENISATION
Monetises 88% waste energy globally for 100% sustainability, to form distributed energy and data trading banks with high resource availability and infrastructure resilience at the point of use.
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From AI to Distributed Intelligence
EMERGENT BEHAVIOUR FROM INTELLIGENT ENGINEERING
Comingled energy and data layers interoperate autopoietically at local and global levels as required to maximise system performance without the inefficiencies and points of failure inherent to centralised topologies.
Lichen Engineering sets out with the principle that nature already holds the answers through its own distributed form of emergent intelligence. The role of science in technology then is to discover the right questions, which will then naturally lead us to the solutions we seek.
Lichen, a symbiotic form of life, fusing two distinct species into one organism:
1. Monocellular Algae - Finely distributed energy and carbon capture/storage units
2. Integrative fungal mesh - Nutrient, energy and chemical signalling network
nS.O. lichen-mimicking networks are:
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SELF ORGANISING
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SELF HEALING
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OPTIMISED FOR MAXIMUM POWER
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OPTIMISED FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY
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OPTIMISED FOR 100% SUSTAINABILITY
