/sci/ - Science & Math

>floors that capture energy wasted from walking

Harvesting mechanical energy from humans in an environment where other sources are available is typically a waste of time and capital. Really, we don't have much to offer.

Still, I'd be interested in how your floor works.

>>2383882

Piezoelectric materials.

Does /sci/ like this render? I saw that pic and was thinking about rendering the HOUSE OF TOMORROW, what does /sci/ think?

>>2383858
not a house, but it would be badass to make an office building in the shape of a seirpinski pyramid. if you did a cube it wouldn't even be hard.

>>2383888
estimated break even time? 2.3Ma

>>2383908

Somehow forgot tripcode.

heres a bunch of future architecture. not houses though.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/amazing-architecture-11-i_n_326249.html?slidenumber=3#slide
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I approve of OP's intentions. That is all I wanted to say at this time.

>>2383858
Dome houses look futuristic, but it's extremely fucking unlivable. At least if you are thinking of maybe a book case or an entertainment center.

I always liked the way venu project homes looked and there fire retardant too.

>>2383917

>Crescent Hydropolis, currently being constructed in Dubai, will be the world's first luxury underwater hotel. To enter the 200 submarine suites, guests will arrive at a land station, then be transported via train to the main area of the hotel offshore. The 1.1-million-square-foot area will include a shopping mall, restaurants, movie theaters, and missile-defense system, all 60-feet underwater.
>missile-defense system
>mfw

>>2383970
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>>2383931
>mfw tsunamis would fuck the shit out of those houses.

Unless, of course, you place them somewhere far away from the union of the tectonic plates.

>>2383992
Tsunamis only suck when you're on the surface.

>Underwater houses, fuck yeeeaar

>>2383931
Jesus, what the fuck's the point of a fire-retardant house?

People are no fun these days. Have a thatch roof! Enjoy the bonfire when antagonistic neighbors throw a torch on it, or do the same to them!

Underwater houses are actually available right now for a few million dollars. Pictured: The H2Ome by US Submarines

>>2384000
>Tsunamis only suck when you're on the surface.
Hardly. Unless you're maintaining artificially controlled pressure somehow, even normal storm swells are enough to make everyone in the habitation nauseous. I saw a documentary on a semi-permanent underwater science station with a moon pool. When storms come on the surface, everyone gets sick in the station.

>>2384020
Damn. Fucking science..

>>2384016

It would be interesting to make the walls into a molecular sorting pump to get water, then some dissociator, then another pump to filter out Hydrogen and let Oxygen in.

Pic very related.

>>2384020

>>Hardly. Unless you're maintaining artificially controlled pressure somehow, even normal storm swells are enough to make everyone in the habitation nauseous. I saw a documentary on a semi-permanent underwater science station with a moon pool. When storms come on the surface, everyone gets sick in the station.

The gentle movement is due to the depth. Read "living and working in the sea"; storm swells only effect habitats down to 100-150 feet or so. This is why the upcoming civilian colony will be 200-250 feet down.

The pressure increase/decrease is because it was an ambient pressure habitat. The colony will be 1.6atm, slightly greater than surface pressure.

>>2384026

Something like that can already be done. Watertight domes of coral can be grown over electrified metal skeletons at 5 times the normal growth rate. It's called biorock accretion. Pic related.

Once complete, a centrifugal seawater oxygen separator can replenish the air inside for 150 watts per person.

>>2384044

But nanoscale centrifuges are cooler ;_;

>mfw Hamas uses Oxygen separators as Uranium Gas Centrifuges to treat yellow cake uranium

The good thing about underwater houses is coral, coral everywhere. BUT, WE SHALL NOT DISTURB NATURE. No breaking of coral barriers please.

>>2384057

>>But nanoscale centrifuges are cooler ;_;

No point in waiting on advanced technology when we have existing technology that does the same job.

Living undersea actually involves pretty mundane technologies by modern standards. Mostly because all of the technologies necessary to make it affordable have been commoditized since then, like air compressors, compact air conditions and dehumidifiers, solar panels and so on.

It's like how cars began as playthings of the wealthy, then became affordable for the common man. Then boats, and small airplanes, etc. We're at the point where ordinary people can build structures to live underwater on an average income.

Pic related: Lloyd Godsons' Mk.II Biosub habitat

>>2384082

>>No breaking of coral barriers please.

On the contrary, we can build undersea homes by artificially inducing rapid coral growth over a skeletal metal dome electrified from solar panels. See pic.

Combine that with the fact that even metal structures sunk in the sea gradually act as artificial reefs, and all subsea vehicles are necessarily battery electric, and you have a formula for a frontier colonization effort that will actually improve the natural environment it moves into.

This is what my self-sustainable facility would look like

Anyways I'll be building a fairly futuristic looking retirement house for my aging father pretty soon. A geodesic dome, like the one in the photo but about three times larger.

>>2384164
>implying geodesic domes look futuristic, and not like what hippies thought was futuristic in the 60's.

>>2383858
I think the best idea at this point is to go down, underground. Make sure it's not susceptible to earthquakes and you got a house that's naturally colder in the summer and warmer in the winter and resistant to a lot of threats of nature. On top you can have the natural environment where you could grow food or have a giant backyard.

Plus, natural fallout shelter and you don't even have to freak the fuck out.

>>2384057

>Hamas uses Oxygen separators as Uranium Gas Centrifuges to treat yellow cake uranium

surprising how easily you swallow the kind of bullshit israel pumps out to justify starving and murdering innocent people

>>2384179

Geodesic domes are a good idea regardless of the year. They are mathematically the strongest possible shape using the least possible material. They cost fully 1/2 less than a traditionally built home with the same interior volume and have superior resistance to windstorms, often being the only homes that remain after hurricanes.

>>2384057
>>mfw Hamas uses Oxygen separators as Uranium Gas Centrifuges to treat yellow cake uranium
Uranium enrichment doesn't work that way.

>>2384186
>implying volume, not area, matters
>implying you save material, given all the waste to cut non-standard lengths/shapes

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>>2384044
you stupid fucking faggot
every single fucking thread
>hurr durr biorock
5 cm per year growth you stupid motherfucker! costing 22KWh-h per kilo! @ 11¢/KW-h(average US price) that comes to $2420/tonne! TWENTY MOTHERFUCKING TIMES THE PRICE OF CONCRETE

>>2384181

Jesus Christ I was making a joke calm the fuck down.

>>2384483
I have no idea what this thread is about, just wanted to say 5 star post.