Doomsday vaults

[FakeCIA]

1 hour ago, Cora_Lie said:

I do agree with you, the situation is more than terrible there... I know it is, I don't need to go and see what is posted on LiveLeaks... But for some people it can be an eye opener... If they can bear with the truth...

 

Hoo-Mans are a lost cause, I know way too much about it...

That is why I'm building a bunker with a beer garden. People I like can join, but doggos first.

[SpikeSpiegel]

1 minute ago, FakeCIA said:

That is why I'm building a bunker with a beer garden. People I like can join, but doggos first.

What about the gaming PC?  Are you bringing that along for the ride?

[FakeCIA]

1 hour ago, CalintzJerevinan said:

What about the gaming PC?  Are you bringing that along for the ride?

Yep. Even when the internet shuts down, I'll still have Minecraft.

[Canoe]

2 minutes ago, CalintzJerevinan said:

What about the gaming PC?  Are you bringing that along for the ride?

Those are the heat source.

Industrial heat pipes to load the ground in summer, take back in winter.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Canoe said:

Those are the heat source.

Industrial heat pipes to load the ground in summer, take back in winter.

My dream home! 

 

 

[Eschew]

10 minutes ago, FakeCIA said:

That is why I'm building a bunker with a beer garden. People I like can join, but doggos first.

I'm a laundry machine. Am I invited?

[SpikeSpiegel]

1 minute ago, Eschew said:

I'm a laundry machine. Am I invited?

I got one of those wooden washing boards for washing clothes like in good old days.

[Canoe]

7 minutes ago, CalintzJerevinan said:

I got one of those wooden washing boards for washing clothes like in good old days.

Those have a second life at a Friday night kitchen party. For some music anyway.

[Canoe]

14 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

My dream home! 

Wow

I'd not seen that one.

One of my hobbies is Building Envelope Science.

(insert sound of crickets here)

[Canoe]

(thread drift)

31 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

My dream home! 

Like the idea. No to the execution.

No to the old tires. (or even new tires)

Off gassing of the tires can get into the living space.

Eventual failure of the membrane will irrigate and then leach from the tires.

Lose the tires. Use natural materials. There are better ways.

The mini-ridge they're tucked up against should/could channel/drain water moving through the soil down and away behind them, thereby protecting them from pressure from water moving through the soil pushing the wall down or blowing up through their floor with rains. The site for such foundations needs to be carefully accessed.

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Canoe said:

(thread drift)

Like the idea. No to the execution.

No to the old tires. (or even new tires)

Off gassing of the tires can get into the living space.

Eventual failure of the membrane will irrigate and then leach from the tires.

Lose the tires. Use natural materials. There are better ways.

The mini-ridge they're tucked up against should/could channel/drain water moving through the soil down and away behind them, thereby protecting them from pressure from water moving through the soil pushing the wall down or blowing up through their floor with rains. The site for such foundations needs to be carefully accessed.

Old tires can be replaced with other stuff.

It's just a way to reuse something which otherwise will finish at the bottom of the oceans.

It stays my dreamhouse

[Canoe]

23 minutes ago, Cora_Lie said:

Old tires can be replaced with other stuff.

It's just a way to reuse something which otherwise will finish at the bottom of the oceans.

It stays my dreamhouse

Concept is great. A number of implementations have been done.

More energy efficient is to lose the huge expanse of windows, and replace them with a series of wall, window, wall, window. Effective, more privacy, and still allows sight views from the inside. I'd still go with a special room or two with the full expanse...

"Earth material" builds are difficult in many areas in N.A., due to building codes. A fast way to build the exterior walls, and super strong, is dry-stacked surface-bonded concrete blocks. But 'concrete is bad now', so to minimize it you can dry stack an appropriate brick, but you still need some concrete for the surface bonding. Also need 1/2" nylon strands (replaces the original fibreglass) in the concrete mix; I haven't seen any nature fibres substituted. You can also modify that concrete so it's waterproof/resistant.

That basic house design even works in cold climates. It or an attached/unattached green house can be partially sunk in the ground to buffer temperature changes. There's a retired gentleman who grows oranges in such in winter on the American prairies. 

 

I find this channel provides an interesting cross-section on where somethings are going. Shy on the techical details (as expected). Most include feedback on where/why that build, and what it's like for the people living in it.

https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos

 

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Canoe said:

https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos

I know it well... Suscribed to it for... quite some time now

 

Love this one too:

 

As I've already said and repeated a lot : As a species a lot cause, luckily some individuals redeem us. This man is one of them (who built this one), imo.

[Canoe]

15 minutes ago, Canoe said:

... I find this channel provides an interesting cross-section on where somethings are going. Shy on the techical details (as expected). Most include feedback on where/why that build, and what it's like for the people living in it.https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/videos

And this one takes a different vane...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiiBqPMgQSw

 

[LogicalDrm]

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[Guest]

HUH????   None of the things I posted can in any way be considered as "doomsday vaults".

 

They are alternative housing solutions, but nothing at all to do with "doomsday whatever" O_o