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3d printed houses and vertical farms. If these technologies get cheap enough, they will cover two of people's basic needs.
by TACIXAT 9y ago
3d printed houses and vertical farms. If these technologies get cheap enough, they will cover two of people's basic needs.
- icebraining 9y agoI'm not sure 3D-printing houses will do much for their final prices. Actually putting materials on top of each other is not an overwhelming fraction of the total cost.
- JackFr 9y agoWhy would a 3d printed house be superior to factory constructed modular housing?
- TACIXAT 9y agoI would prefer a beautiful robot built brick house over modular housing, but I do not know a ton about pre-built houses.
- JBReefer 9y agoAccording to State Farm, completely rebuilding my apartment is would be 1/7th of what I paid for it, and that's with NYC union labor. There's a reason that crackhouses in Vancouver cost $1 million, and it's not because they're made of gold. You need to build density to reduce the share of land cost per dwelling, anything else is a gimmick.
- dllthomas 9y ago> You need to build density to reduce the share of land cost per dwelling Or (meaningfully) make proximity less important.