These carbon-neutral bioceramic Geodesic dome homes last 500 years and don’t burn or rust:
It’s a new type of chemically-bonded ceramic that forms strong molecular bonds like a polymer. Crucially, bioceramic has the same property that makes cement so useful: the ability to mix it into a slurry and pour it into a mold without using high heat. That makes it cheap to manufacture, while enabling it to be much stronger than concrete.
The company’s first project is a permanent geodesic village for the homeless in Las Vegas in partnership with Zappos, the Amazon-owned retailer. Then, Geoship says, it’ll “throttle up until we end domelessness for everybody.”Need a bigger house? Add a dome, simply by connecting it to your main dome. And the price is right, if not exactly straw bale cheap. Geoship estimates housing costs, including delivery, to be between $45,000 to $230,000 for everything in a house. With construction that would be about $130 to $160 per square foot, Bierschenk says, including all electrical, appliances, cabinets, HVAC, and so on.One of the biggest benefits, however, is ecological.
“The embodied energy calculations of conventional construction is ... somewhere between 80 and 300 tons of embodied CO2 in a typical wood house,”The embodied CO2 in a bioceramic dome is somewhere in the three to 10 ton range and potentially negative when ... you can cure the panels in CO2-rich environments.”
That’s around 30 times less carbon. Add in the expected lifespan of the building at 500 years, and you’ve got something that's incredibly ecologically effective.
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