Love the idea if the solar decathalon, but I'd like it better if they had to live in them for a year. Typically, regulations prohibit this kind of research, which is a damned shame because it can turn up all kinds of unexpected things (this happened to GATech with the AwareHome project - nobody is allowed to live there, so we learn nothing deep from it).
Me personally, I just want to build a concrete geodesic that's thick enough to not require a lot of active climate-control. My time horizon for things is longer - I've said for a long time that if I build something I'd want to try to make sure that it could stand neglected for 1000 years: because something should survive, and given modern construction it's not going to be much. I have to wonder if it's even possible, and it's something of a materials and location challenge (standard concrete, for instance, degrades).
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Date: 2006-07-05 12:10 pm (UTC)Me personally, I just want to build a concrete geodesic that's thick enough to not require a lot of active climate-control. My time horizon for things is longer - I've said for a long time that if I build something I'd want to try to make sure that it could stand neglected for 1000 years: because something should survive, and given modern construction it's not going to be much. I have to wonder if it's even possible, and it's something of a materials and location challenge (standard concrete, for instance, degrades).