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2008-10-19 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-19 16:46|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I love this stuff.

By "stuff" I mean newly found applications of older inventions...

Years and years ago [60s] I helped build a geodesic dome [Buckminster Fuller] up in the Caliphornia Mountains.

[yes, I waz chasing Lovely Hippie Skirt, the Hippies all had long hair,...

Me--> High and Tight!
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Posted by RD">RD 2008-10-19 19:09|| 2008-10-19 19:09|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem with geodesic domes is that, generally speaking, the technology stopped there. What was needed was instead of imagining the domes as things in themselves, to have them as just a starting point, like any other building.

For instance, the outside could be designed for water collection and distillation, solar power and water pre-heating, algae biodiesel generation, light inclusion and exclusion, insulation and heat exchange, as a complex antenna, etc.

The inside could be just as complicated, using upper portions of the dome as a heat trapping small hydroponic greenhouse, along with mycoprotein (fungus) vats, with excess CO2 cycled up there to stimulate growth further. The external solar panels could power electrolysis to produce both hydrogen fuel and oxygen as a purifying bleach-oxidizer.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-10-19 20:08|| 2008-10-19 20:08|| Front Page Top

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