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Originally Posted by Buffy
I'm glad you posted this Mike as I was thinking about doing it this morning.
We're long-time members of the Cal Academy (I spent a ton of time there when I was a kid), and even now its fun to just go watch them build it! (Then we go to the Exploratorium across town...).
Stares at fishes,
Buffy
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Thanks Buffy
How lucky you are to be so close
Please take some photos.
They should make a programme like this on the building process:-
I have been watching this strangely compelling series from England on building
"
Grand Designs". It should be boring;watching the hassles people have building unusual homes.
To-nights episode was about an "eco-house"
Cumbria, The underground house
Cumbria, The underground house from Channel4.com/4Homes
How ecologically sound it was is a moot point I think.
You also need a cool $1/2 mil.
You might be able to watch it online.
Since I was a kid I have wanted to live underground
(Too many "Phantom" and "Batman" Comics)
(but I married a woman with claustrophobia)
I want to go to Coober Pedy where the whole town is underground and they play Golf at night with glow-in-the dark golf balls. There is no grass of course as it is in the middle of the desert with temps from 40-50C
It has reciprocal membership rights with the
very exclusive, up-market, Home-Of-Golf Club in Scotland. Only in Oz
Walkabout - Coober Pedy
CooberPedy - underground in Australia
I love opals too
But having built a few strange things in my time "
Grand Designs" took me back
I am sure there is a special place in hell reserved for Glaziers (glass-'working'-type people)
I remember we were putting in a 30' high glass waterfall and the glass took ages to get there. When they
finally put it in ,
I said "Hey, that's got a huge crack in it"
O she wll' be right mate Yo'll never notice" (The crack was about a meter (3') long)
I NOTICE NOW GET THE B *&%^#$ out of here!!
A couple of things interested me in
Cumbria, The underground house
One was an air exchanging system than took out stale air and replaced it with warm fresh air for "about 30P a week (80c?).
Maybe we would need the cool air to come in; in most of Australia
The other was the solar tiles
Sundog-Energy
and
The light 'columns' or "Light pipes"
www.coxbp.com
Also this throw away comment
"Making one tonne of cement, makes one tonne of CO2."
The pics are of Coobar Pedy & the golf course & the house.
