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Beware of Wolves, but Straw Houses Could Help With Climate Change
“The Three Little Pigs” was not written through the lens of sustainable building, said Paul Lewis, an architecture professor at Princeton University. For those needing a plot reminder: One house, made of straw, blows down. A house made of sticks meets the same fate. But the brick house remains standing, saving lives and vanquishing the villain.
These days, as the planet heats up because of burning fossil fuels — with the built environment accounting for some 40 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions — the moral of the 19th-century fable should be the exact opposite, Mr. Lewis said. “The straw house sequesters carbon; the wood house is pretty good, but the brick house is a carbon bomb that actually leads to climate disaster.”
Mr. Lewis believes that straw can do much more than provide bedding in a horse stable; it can also provide the stable’s frame, walls and insulation. He and his team have showcased the agricultural byproduct’s potential by building a tiny home — the first of its kind, he said — made almost entirely of straw. The cottage, which looks straight out of a children’s book but has some elegant, modern flourishes, sits on a plot of land outside Hudson, N.Y., about 120 miles north of New York City.
Well, how does this work with tall buildings in Democrat run cities.
“The theory of modern architecture is that when there’s a material, it eventually evolves into a form,” said Guy Nordenson, a professor of structural engineering and architecture at Princeton who worked with Mr. Lewis on the project. The straw house experiment shows what that form could look like. The long-term challenge is to make straw as viable as bricks or concrete blocks, but getting to that point will require more research, Mr. Nordenson said.
Go away. Leave us alone. How much taxpayer money is being used for this?
A heat pump, powered by a battery system on the premises and solar panels atop a trailer next door, provides heating and cooling. It is the culmination of three years of research, manual labor, and trial and error. The materials cost a little more than $50,000 (a hefty portion of that — $18,000 — went toward the house’s thatch roofing).
So, about $300K in California? That trailer seems out off place, eh?
Mr Teach declares! “Go away. Leave us alone. How much taxpayer money is being used for this?”
How dare THEY force Teach into a straw house!!! Leave him alone!!
But it probably uses fewer taxpayer dollars than the $1 BILLION on *Sleepy Don’s Luxury Trump Ballroom!!
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* Why is Donny dozing off in meeting?
The ballroom will belong to the government, i.e., us, the people.
Your straw hut fiasco will end up belonging to individuals, like any other home. Unless it turns into Section 8 housing, in which case it cost us even more.
But Leftists like houses made of straw. They will burn better when they have their “peaceful protests.”
In Cali a couple working at fast good full time
Earn 1600 dollars per week and could afford a 300k house. If they chose to own
Not many places in Cali are zoned for straw houses
Oh, no -Johnny again leaves out taxes and other factors in the cost of living in California? I’m shocked again…
Where i Stopped reading
as the planet heats up because of burning fossil fuels
Seriously? What brought the glaciers to melt the first few times? What makes you think,, err,believe, the climate has been hospitable for humanity? Brainwashed,, grow up. Study. Read. Find the history of the earth.
Yikes! Perhaps, YOU should read more! You ask, “What brought the glaciers to melt the first few times?” Really?
The recurrent ice ages start and end because of Milankovitch cycles which are long-term, periodic changes in Earth’s orbit and tilt that affect the amount of sunlight the planet receives, triggering ice ages and warmer interglacial periods. These cycles explain how variations in Earth’s movement over thousands of years — specifically eccentricity, obliquity, and precession — impact global temperatures.
see: https://geology.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/ice_ages2.gif
As you can see, over the previous half-million years or so the Earth has experienced some 5 cycles of glacial and interglacial periods. The Homo genera are a couple million years old. The Homo sapien species is about 300,000 years old. Homo sapien civilization essentially developed in the current interglacial epoch, the Holocene – so over the past 12,000 years!!
There is no evidence that the current bout of rapid warming is in any way related to Milankovitch changes. There is overwhelming evidence that the warming is caused by the significant increase in greenhouse gases, especially CO2.
If it’s of some comfort the current warming could delay the next Milankovitch cycle- driven glacial period!!! The next ice age is predicted in about 10,000-11,000 years.
Brainwashed, grow up. Study. Read. Find the history of the Earth.
On the contrary, there is no evidence that a trace gas is doing anything to the climate. Now, if it reached substantially greater concentration, then we can talk. And the fact that we adopt world communism and destroy the Western civilization to correct CO2 is a joke.
Rimjob: Brainwashed, grow up. Study. Read. Find the history of the Earth.
Sez the guy who claims the greatest existential threat to mankind is white Christian nationalism.
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
NMAGA47 Motherfucker!