2012-04-13 10:26:18-0400
The way I'm building the new house is really interesting. First of all, the land was donated by the town because it's a brownfield in a flood plain. So the first thing I did was dig down to the bedrock, about 12 feet down, and soaked all that soil in a big heavy-metal-digesting algae tank. Since I work at C6, the carbon nanotech materials company, I had access to some experimental carbon fab equipment. There's this new device which takes a carbon source (the algae in this case) , purifies it (actually resulting in some little grains of those aforementioned heavy metals), and builds it into fibers that are about as strong as anything can be. The device makes a 1x1cm rod about 10 meters long. This rod is so light and stiff that it doesn't bend at all, ever. I modded the device, so that it build a cross bar bud every meter or so.
The base of the structure is a kind of mesh that actually bonds directly to the bedrock at the molecular level - no other adhesives are necessary. I'm also building a kind of swale/dike, anchored the same way, that will direct the water around the house and back to the river in case of a flood. It will actually create a wall of hydrodynamically stable water in that case. This is only possible because of the unimaginable strength of these materials.
I intend to build a super strong shell with integrated triple pane diamond windows in it. Inside the shell will be a shelter, which can be as fanciful and flimsy as I wish, since the shell completely protects it from the elements, a series of green house plots and water purification stations (boiled by black graphite heated by diamond fresnel lenses), and other sustainable amenities. Heat radiation is also directed at a large slab of exposed bedrock, which retains the heat overnight.
I'm going a little nuts with the fab machine, making a kind of diamond bubble substrate, on which I can spray some photocell material that self organizes into redundant micro electric cells. The cells squeeze all the sunlight that normally would be reflected off into the cavities of micro-bubbles, making them highly efficient and profoundly flat black colored. The electricity is channeled into a system of microwave laser transmitters and directly broadcast into my battery/inverter system.
This house will be a kind of showcase for C6, so it's being documented as I build it. Stay tuned!
I intend to build a super strong shell with integrated triple pane diamond windows in it. Inside the shell will be a shelter, which can be as fanciful and flimsy as I wish, since the shell completely protects it from the elements, a series of green house plots and water purification stations (boiled by black graphite heated by diamond fresnel lenses), and other sustainable amenities. Heat radiation is also directed at a large slab of exposed bedrock, which retains the heat overnight.
I'm going a little nuts with the fab machine, making a kind of diamond bubble substrate, on which I can spray some photocell material that self organizes into redundant micro electric cells. The cells squeeze all the sunlight that normally would be reflected off into the cavities of micro-bubbles, making them highly efficient and profoundly flat black colored. The electricity is channeled into a system of microwave laser transmitters and directly broadcast into my battery/inverter system.
This house will be a kind of showcase for C6, so it's being documented as I build it. Stay tuned!
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