The solar dome's President and inventor spoke before Congress and now FEMA is considering the InterShelter™ as the emergency shelter of choice across the nation.CBS
Posted on 11/07/2009 2:48:47 PM PST by BenLurkin
If a major disaster struck and you couldn't live in your home would you have a place to go?
Don Kubley claims he has an answer. It's called the InterShelter™ and Kubley said it could provide safe shelter for everyone within two hours.
The solar dome's President and inventor spoke before Congress and now FEMA is considering the InterShelter™ as the emergency shelter of choice across the nation.
It can withstand winds up to 200 miles per hour and temperatures from 120 degress Fahrenheit down to 70 degrees below.
All you need is a screwdriver, a wrench and a step ladder. Kubley said three people could put the 21 panel pieces together in just 2 hours and then disassemble it in 40 minutes. It can be used over and over again.
Kubley is making the shelters in Bakersfield. He currently supplies them to the Alaska National Guard and the British Army.
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The solar dome's President and inventor spoke before Congress and now FEMA is considering the InterShelter™ as the emergency shelter of choice across the nation.CBS
It doesn’t look big enought for a flat screen HDTV.
The US military came up with a better idea. Just take an ordinary steel shipping container, and with a conversion kit it is suitable for a family of four.
You start by digging three slit trenches in which you lay three PVC pipes for electricity, fresh water and sewage for a whole “street block” of containers. Then you punch three holes in the bottom of each container, that riser pipes for each of the three lines can stick up through.
The door side of the container faces the “street”. Electricity is the first slit trench, for both light and to power a portable, one burner electric stove. Fresh water comes up in the middle of the container, and is split, with a pipe going to a front of the container plastic sink, and another going to the rear to run both the shower and toilet. The sewer line is at the rear of the container, for toilet flushing, shower water and the sink which can be dumped in the toilet.
The interior sides of the container has four drop down bunk beds on chains, which are upright during the day. Then the entire container but the front is covered in dirt, which acts as insulation.
Imperfect containers are torn apart to be used as sidewalk. Other community services, such as a mess area, school, and clinic are put in tents.
Interesting!
Does it float in a flood and self-right? How much radiation/fallout can it take?
I would think FEMA would avoid any conversation involving “dome” and “shelter” in the same sentence.
Were you in Afghanistan or Iraq???? I helped build those in Bagram.
Nope, though good job to those that were! However, this use of shipping containers did make some news back here, to those following the action.
FYI, there are over 1 million unused shipping containers outside the Port of Los Angeles alone. They were a big reason the trade deficit with China was so huge. The Chinese made them, but it wasn’t worth it to send them back empty as back haul. You figure, at $30-50k a throw, that really ran up the price tag.
I have heard that a lot of people have had bladder problems living in one of these domes...
THEY COULDN’T FIND A CORNER TO PEE IN
>;O)
What do they cost?
14 ft $7500, 20 ft 12,500.
http://www.envirodome.net/envirodomestore/
Says you can transport it to the site in a pickup. Nice.
Looks like it assembles good deal faster than stick frame.
Thanks!
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