Posted on 11/08/2013 7:25:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t know where you’d get the raw materials, maybe a space elevator, or launching them up with a rail gun.
This is why there are asteroids, which are also not at the bottom of our gravity well.
That’s gotta take alot of glu sticks ...
Now I cant get that Melanie song; Brand New Key, written by Neil Young by the by, out of my head. I’ll have to let it start and completely finish on it’s own.
“I don’t know where you’d get the raw materials . . .”
The asteroid belt if cock full of raw material.
Wish I could find the video from a year or two ago showing a working model printing a full size house. Have any of you seen that?
This sounds like the industrial grade replicators from Star Trek
I read a book called Armor while still in high school(early 80’s) that included this exact idea. They used the soil and glue to form walls for a fort while attemting to defeat an alien enemy. Hard to tell where the original idea came from but its been around for awhile. The tech is only now catching up to the idea.
“Heinlein used to write about how primitive our building technology was. Compared how much a car would cost if you brought the raw steel, rubber etc to your house and built the car there.”
So true. The old trailer homes made a bad name for mobile homes, but many of the newer ones are just as good as a house if you put them on a solid foundation. 2x6 framing, thick drywall, good quality doors and windows, real tile, wood floors, granite countertops, etc. When we were looking into it, they were still about 30% less than a framed house.
i got a brand new pair of roller skates
I used to have a key
cool! wonder is he need to make a demo somewhere;-
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“I like the way they make the walls hollow. That leaves room for spray foam insulation.”
And wires and pipe, too.
“You,could probably build such a house in an American city for about $50,000 or so.”
You don’t suppose unions and bureaucrats will want their cut, do you?
There has historically been huge resistance to alternate construction technologies and methods.
Traditional site oriented capenters resisted modular off-site fabrication, since decades ago for example.
The video is fascinating, and doable. The guy is an Iranian, good with construction. His example of dealing with earthquakes is interesting, too.
Old but good technology, for an age old problem.
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth a liver and endless , I’ll think of something.
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