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Almost everyone asks "Boy, I wish I could have a house like I want". You are thinking too small, imagine a 3D printer that makes houses at a 10th of the current
by Tsagadai 13y ago
Almost everyone asks "Boy, I wish I could have a house like I want". You are thinking too small, imagine a 3D printer that makes houses at a 10th of the current costs. Just looking at what they do now is not enough. Techniques are improving, technologies are changing, materials are being discovered. What is today is not the limit of what is possible.
- dagw 13y agoBut virtually nobody is going to buy a 3D printer to print a house for themselves. They're going to call up their local house building company, send over the drawings they came up with together with their architect and then the house-building company will make the house using whatever technique is best, which may very well be a 3d-printer. I think 3D does have future in commercial settings and offering on demand print services, but I still doubt most people will have one in their home in the near future.
- sp332 13y agoMass-produced prefab houses can be really cheap. I don't think a printer is the right way to make things cheaper. You can always make things cheaper at scale in a factory than you can as one-offs in your house.