Posted on 07/28/2023 1:53:55 PM PDT by Jonty30
When you live in a country as seismically active as Japan, thinking about earthquakes (and tsumanis) probably occupies a good deal of your time. Inventor Shoichi Sakamoto took it a step further. He decided to do something about it and invented a technology, remarkably simple in concept, to protect homes from the devastating shaking - an airlift system capable of automatically raising and isolating the whole house until the temblor stops.
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It looks adaptable to anybody building a house along the West Coast.
Which comes first? The earthquake or the airlift?
And what happens if the earth beneath a house suddenly opens up and disappears from below the house?
Can it be applied to storm surge from hurricanes or from tsunamis?
If you’re land is going to disappear, your house will probably go with it.
I think the only thing you can do for a tsunami or storm surge is to build your house so that the water pass through underneath with minimal resistance, like on stilts like some ocean oriented tribes have built their homes.
Well, it would simplify moving to a friendlier state.
I guess the utilities will now need gps in their meters.
“Air Danshin creates airlift system to levitate houses during earthquakes”
isn’t this sort of like jumping up right before the run-away elevator hits bottom?
And people who live along the Missippi
No, what this system would do allow the house to jump up and down or sway with the air bags taking the brunt of jolts.
Since this system has been through magnitude 9 earthquakes, it would seem that it would handle nearly every kind earthquake.
“...or from tsunamis?”
Earthquake is bad enough. But the theory of levitating a house in front of a tsunami traveling at 500 mph and the house will stop rolling somewhere in Taiwan. You don’t escape a train by jumping right in front of it.
wy69
Oregon State University recently built dorms on “stilts” for their marine studies students at Newport Oregon.
My Dad taught me at a young age, “When you build or buy a house...on a rock, on a hill.
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