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re: wood dome
16 mar 2002
michael mitchell wrote:
>a 39 1/2 foot dome may be built with an 8'x4' plywood for each triangle, from
>home depot. this is very cheap to make with 2x2's, or 2x4 struts...
why plywood? how about covering it with 2 layers of greenhouse polyethylene
film and filling the space between them with air during the day and tiny cold
soap bubbles at night, in wintertime and vice-versa in summertime?
and why a dome? the film would fit better over a 30'x50' quonset shape.
>oregan domes sells a paper cut out to make them with.
anyone have an address for them?
>...and put it on floats and float it.
interesting... it might have a windmill on top
for electrical power and slow transportation.
nick
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