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  1. next up, a machine that poops houses by Thud457 · · Score: 1 · on MakerBot Gets $10 Million Investment

    Zombie Nader Khalili thinks they're beautiful.

  2. Re:Styrofoam as the greener alternative? by butlerdi · · Score: 1 · on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home

    Or even better ..... CalEarth

  3. Re:Not enough time by danelav · · Score: 1 · on Sony Rootkit Settlement Gets Judge's Approval

    I'm sorry, here's the link: calearth.org. Let's see if that works.

  4. Re:Why? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 0, Flamebait · on Back to Moon in 2015?


    And out of the room's [sic] raw materials, notably fine grey dust and grey rocks, you can make ... um ... not much?

    Well, there are some folks over at the American Society of Civil Engineers woul might disagree with you there, sport.

    Absolutely. Eveyone knows that mining and refining is so much easier in a hard vacuum. Not.

    Nice attempt at misrepresentation, but no.
    When I referred to the moon's lack of atmosphere as a plus, I was stating that launching these materials (either into lunar orbit, earth orbit, or to L5) could be accomplished much more easily (by utilizing a solar-powered linear accelerator, rather than rockets).

    Hope that clears things up for you.

  5. Semi-ceramic... though the designer is nuts by Engineer-Poet · · Score: 1 · on Cal Earth Creating Different Housing
    The guy who wrote TFA seems to have an over-inflated idea of what his material will be able to do:
    ... the semi-glazed interior can provide an airtight membrane.
    Ah, no. No sane person is going to trust their atmosphere to a brittle material like that, especially when it is held down by powder. One leak could literally blow a hole through the material providing the weight, leading to rapid or even explosive decompression.

    Luna has been under a rain of meteoroids for billions of years, and has a fair amount of nickel-iron bits mixed into it. You can literally extract these with a magnet. If I was looking to build a pressure membrane on Luna I would make it out of stainless steel, not ceramic.

  6. Portable housing... but at what cost? by rivercityrandom · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Build a House Out of Recycled Cardboard

    As environmentally friendly and frankly quite cool as this seems, the current price of $35,000 AUS (~$27,000 USD) seems a little steep for the uses (temporary housing, travel home) they're marketing it for. For that price in the US, you can get a decent trailer or RV that doesn't need to be disassembled to transport and is less likely to get water seepage and mildew when it rains...

    If you want true affordable environmentally-sound housing for the poor, the best bet is to go with something like architect Nader Khalili's Superadobe shelter designs. The shelters are made with sandbags reinforced with wire and filled with earth from the site. Not only do these not require costly deliveries of wood and cement products, they can be assembled in a matter of hours and can withstand wind, rain, hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. They also have a cool "hobbit-hole" type of feel...

  7. Here is something cool to check out... by TedTschopp · · Score: 4, Informative · on Making a House That Will Last for Centuries?

    If you are in California and you are really interested in the topic this person brings up, you need to stop by this place outside Victorville along the 15 freeway.

    California Institue of Earth Art and Architecture.

    Not exactly what you might be looking for. But I want one of these houses. Cool looking, Cheap, Enviromentally friendly, and they will last a long... long... long... time.

    Ted