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NegentropicBoy @lemmy.one

2y ago

Rotating house (Tom Scott)

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Wow, that's actually some really clever engineering that went into making a hub for the utilities where the lines can all rotate together. I'd hate to be the one who has to fix it when something goes wrong though, it looks like a lot of that is probably bespoke, and replacing anything must be big $$$. Also it's hard to imagine that the sewage system is problem-free. I wonder if they have a masticator in the line somewhere.
- Yeah, he designed it himself, there's probably no documentation on it but the original one, and fixing it mean have to get the part made for it.
  
  I figure if you buy that house in that location, the cost of having it fixed isnt even on your radar.
  
  I think I saw he has some patents on it in the video. You could probably use existing hardware and those patents to reconstruct as needed.
- Yeah I wonder how the sewage line doesn't get clogged in certain orientations.

Does anyone have a good explanation for why sewer is above drinking water? Wouldn't it be safer to do it the other way?
- I thought the exact same thing. But if it leaks you have more problems then sewage in your clean water...
  
  Natural gas and water in-lines are usually pressurized so it'd mostly be the other way around.
- I think it doesn’t matter at all. I̶t̶’̶s̶ ̶g̶o̶n̶n̶a̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶a̶m̶i̶n̶a̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶.̶ it has three seals and two sensors per pipe to tell if it has started to leak so it'll all show up before it becomes an issue anyways.
  Ftfy.

This house popped up on my YouTube last night.
It’s such a cool house, the engineering for the piping to also rotate via seal rings is really impressive. I think he also said it’s just a 1.5 HP motor.

This guy as more money than sense.
- cmon, he's not hurting anyone

As a former architecture teacher, all I have to say about those rotating house is that they’re dumb AF, costing a fortune in energy spending.
The landscape moves. So does your head on your neck, and your eyeballs in your skull, and your ass on your legs.
Pure stupidity.
- costing a fortune in energy spending.
  I'm curious where the energy waste comes in. The owner says it only takes a 1HP motor to move the building, so I can't imagine its very power hungry. What am I missing?
  
  Horsepower doesn't measure the total energy needed to rotate the house because it doesn't capture the amount of time the motor runs for.
- They have played us for absolute fools.
- Is it of the point about being in architect to design somewhat dumb things.
  Architects always keep trying to reinvent bridge just so they don't have to make the same bridge twice. The best design for a house is a cube made out of concrete, but we don't build like that.

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