Re:A house 3D printed from raw earth
by prox on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:38AM
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While that’s true, and this is no instanthouse.exe, these are all proof of concept projects. Things like longevity or other challenges might not even be the focus. So while this is no holy grail, it’s a stepping stone towards certain building solutions or local solutions (think quick emergency shelters, or off world for instance, to name a few)
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Re:A house 3D printed from raw earth
by surgeryres on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:04PM
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I think it’s a great idea to build mud huts on another planet where labor is scarce, machine energy is under different constraints, and certain resources are “unlimited”.
But this approach for building a house on Earth to house humans seems way off the bell curve of potential to scale.
Re:A house 3D printed from raw earth
by FalconSensei on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @12:40PM
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You do realize that millions of people live in houses made of soil, right?
And if you consider that brick houses have bricks made of clay, that's even more...