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Simple really: Cut your energy costs by living in a giant Thermos flask, with double-glazed windows and a partial vacuum between inner and outer walls. Heat transfer losses/gains should be minimal.
Airconditioning unit scrubs CO2 and moisture from the air, adds O2, controls temperature.
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I like the double glazed part. It reminds me of donuts. |
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I have triple-glazed windows. |
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Boric oxide, aluminum oxide and phosphorus pentoxide. |
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Is't this the wrong design direction . Want to rush into that coffin do you ?
Go the other way . Power , heaps of heat flow control , everything open and natural . |
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Like a field or summat [wjt]? |
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I keep getting visions of soup up to the armpits [UB]. |
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Thats summate [squeak], Eventually when tech (I mean engineering) gets good enough , man should leave the cave and share social , right ? |
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Don't hang any pictures. The first nail through the wall pops the house. |
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Gives new meaning to a "whole house vacuum" system. |
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You live in a cave, [wjt]? That explains a lot more than you realise. |
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imploding houses would be very annoying. |
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//soup up to the armpits// |
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It might be a coffee house. |
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Why would it implode, [neilp]? Thermos flasks don't implode, in normal circumstances. |
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Well a Vaccumm thermos the size of a house might be a bit pricy. But Why in the world don't we have vacum windows? They do have windows filled with gasses that are slightly better insulators than open space filled with air but not that much better. a vaccum window would prevent a lot of heat loss and gain. Especially if they are equiped with refelctive shutters or blinds. |
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With a vacuum this large, you would probably risk creating an accident like the one at the Super Kamiokande neutrino detector, where one imploding phototube started a shockwave that destroyed 50,000 more.Except it would be houses imploding.
Have you ever heard a monitor implode? When a house popped, it would probably deafen everyone anywhere nearby. |
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I think it is a great idea. Just a little bit of engineering involved, but it could definitely work. The greatest inventors in history were labeled as quacks when they presented their ideas. |
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I just had the same idea. right down to making the house look like a big thermos. However, you have not added any coffee jacuzzis, much to my dismay. |
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I enjoy how the airconditioner keeps adding Oxygen to the atmosphere in your house until you turn on a stove. Then "vwooooohhhhhmmmmm" the stove and everything combustable around it incinerates causing the catastrophic structural failure and subsequent implosion of your vacuum house!!! |
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Not that it's a bad idea. I am all for saving energy. |
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Would thermos house keep the steam and condensation inside? People would slowly suffocate is they don't go out and replace the air by leaving doors open.
Perhaps you could have some house plants to generate oxygen? |
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Triple or quadruple glazing and good insulation is a norm in countries like Finland. It is odd it has not been baked here in New Zealand but people are living in glorified tents. |
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I like any ideas of saving energy rather than putting another log on the open fireplace. |
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