Slashdot | Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-mile Dome
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Paul D. Fernhout
Nov 9, 2009, 11:02:21 AM11/9/09
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1317223/Vermont-City-Almost-Encased-In-a-1-mile-Dome
"A Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents.
(They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and HUD seriously considered
funding their proposal.) The city's architectural concept included
supporting the Dome with air pressure slightly above atmospheric pressure.
(Buckminster Fuller warned their biggest challenge would be keeping it from
floating away...) There would be no more heating bills, fly-fishing all
year, and no more snow shoveling. And to this day, the former city planner
insists that 'Economically it's a slam dunk.'"
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/politics/doomed-dome-future-never-was
"A Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents.
(They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and HUD seriously considered
funding their proposal.) The city's architectural concept included
supporting the Dome with air pressure slightly above atmospheric pressure.
(Buckminster Fuller warned their biggest challenge would be keeping it from
floating away...) There would be no more heating bills, fly-fishing all
year, and no more snow shoveling. And to this day, the former city planner
insists that 'Economically it's a slam dunk.'"
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/politics/doomed-dome-future-never-was
--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
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