Posted on 03/13/2021 5:08:12 AM PST by zeestephen
See dual nozzle 3d printers.
My niggling concern is condensation and ground water.
I had a bad case of Yerts last summer.
Salve cleared it up.
A couple of years ago I sold a piece of property that had an ideal hilside into which a Hobbit House would have fit nicely. I lacked the funds to do the project so I sold the property.
Old hands, big fingers, and nearly blind. It is YURTS: https://www.yurts.com/
Yeah, but water is a valuable resource. Condensation could be collected on cooler plates and both ground water and condensation directed to storage for all kinds of use. You could even run it through a RO system for potable uses. I’ve always wanted a home with a small stream running through it; maybe even a small waterfall, and it might serve partially, or wholly, for the earth based heating/cooling conduit.
I’m glad I didn’t have any tents growing on my back.
No pitch to those flat roofs; it must NEVER rain there!
Absolutely amazing. Thank you for the explanation.
Thank you for your perspective. It helps me make heads or tails of this movement.
+1
A shipping container on a hillside in Panama. Fascinating.
You describe the majority of this forum in regards to most technology.
The bottom floor made with extruded concrete. Sounds like a bad idea to me. Let's say you want to change the location of a window or door, for remodeling purposes. Good luck chopping out the concrete and keeping the integrity of the wall for upper-floor support. Easy to do with conventional foundation and wood wall construction.
Scottish Inns did this in 1968. I worked for them the hotel units were built on site then I worked on the resturant side we poured the walls and sidewalks on huge tables they were hauled by semi and set up on site..
Is that Marshal Tito.
That is partially true, but we get the spectrum for sure.
Personally, I know I likely come across hostile to technology such as solar power, wind power, and electric cars.
It isn’t because I don’t like them or like the concept. I wish they were things that worked well enough to stand on their own. If they had an electric car whose range and performance closely matched regular vehicles at even a somewhat disadvantaged price point, I would embrace it.
What irks me to no end is my tax money being used to shove this down our throat “for our own good”.
And I admit, my whole life, I was an early adopter of technology (with the exception of cell phones). I pushed technology, PCs, digital cameras, speech recognition, all kinds of things.
Many people still tell me I was the first person they knew who not only had a personal computer, but did useful things with it and inspired them to use the technology.
But I have had serious reservations for some time, seeing the negative effects that technology has had on our society.
Don’t get me wrong. I love having thousands of my music albums at my fingertips. I love going on the Internet and getting information quickly, and spending time at places like Free Republic.
But I hate seeing people whose lives are taken over by this.
I saw three cars in a row pass me on the highway, and all of them were in the fast lane with their heads down texting.
I saw a family at a hotel having breakfast, all four of them sitting at the table, their faces glued to their phones.
I go to parties, and people are texting or doing something on their phones rather than interacting with each other.
I know parents who are so tied to their kids by their phones it is alarming to me.
It is the constant feeling that people just aren’t there. They are somewhere else, anywhere else, and not in the moment.
My wife and I were driving home from Boston a couple of years ago, and a particular event stuck with me. It was a wonderful early spring evening, and we were crossing over the Massachusetts Turnpike at the end of Newbury Street near the Tower Records building (now defunct)
As we passed the Tower Records building, there were perhaps 30 people standing there, probably waiting for a bus. Every single one of them stood with one palm up cradling a phone, their anonymous faces reflecting the faint light of their phone as they gazed down at it. Their heads were all inclined at the same angle. They could have been mannequins. All of them nearly completely motionless in a trance-like state of immobility.
Just gazing down.
What really struck me in a sad and negative way was...it was a beautiful night. You know that time of night when the sun has gone down, and the horizon has that orange, to pink to cobalt blue gradation, and the trees, not yet bearing leaves, are starkly silhouetted in black against that beautiful sky? That time of night. To the left, the giant Citgo sign was lit up, doing its characteristic light show.
There was so much going on. So much beauty. So much life. So much happening. But these 30 people were completely and totally oblivious to it all. They saw nothing but that rectangular screen in their hand.
There was something very, very sad about that, and it has stuck with me.
Wow! Nicely done!
I can see the day before I die, when house construction will involve a team setting up a large scale building printer that will be able to build a three story building. Larger buildings with be built with an expandable printer framework that will be able to set itself up on top of floors already built.
For homes, people will have a session with a design team, they are going to pick out everything, the colors and textures. Holes and spaces will be printed for plumbing and wiring. At some point, even the conductive wiring will be part of the printing process. There will be blank conduits, accessible from various places in the house to allow new wiring to be placed down the road for expansion.
Once designed, the land will be prepared, and the team will set up the printer. It will be highly automated, and they might even put up fencing around the area to allow the print to take place unattended.
The houses will be beautiful and varied, not the crap we see getting built that makes us mutter “damn cookie-cutter houses!”
They will be solid and strong, highly insulated, and very energy efficient. I can already imagine the military, using it to set up bases quickly.
I think building will eventually be revolutionized by this.
So do I. Another aspect that might be possible for those who want to change a structure would be to grind up the old one and extrude it into a new design.
I also feel the same with printing conduits, air ducts, plumbing, containment vessels/tanks/sinks/tubes, and actually wiring, heated floors/walls, etc.
The houses will be beautiful and varied, not the crap we see getting built that makes us mutter “damn cookie-cutter houses!”
They will be solid and strong, highly insulated, and very energy efficient. I can already imagine the military, using it to set up bases quickly.
Indeed!
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