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New Civilization News: Underground Living |
Category: Housing, Building, Architecture 4 comments
30 Oct 2001 @ 11:15 by sue : Soon 30 Oct 2001 @ 23:14 by ming : Go underground I think the potentially very cool thing about underground living is that we could keep practically ALL of the earth's surface as a wilderness. As a matter of fact, that's how I think it should be. There's really no good reason for humans to cover all the land, paving it all over with roads and housing and mono-culture farming. We can do all of that underground. 28 Jan 2008 @ 05:17 by drew @69.20.183.82 : Farming underground? How would the crops get light? Extensive skylights? :) BTW, I think the total populated area of the earth is less than 2%, and not increasingly rapidly. There is no shortage of livable space on the surface of the earth, and won't be in the near future. People think that there is because the majority of the population in developed countries live in cities, and see the expansion of those cities. What they DON'T see is the hundreds of millions of square miles of undeveloped land...why don't they see it? Because it's undeveloped (and roadless). Look at central Canada or Siberia on Google Earth, and tell me we're 'running out of space'. Crop yields have increased dramatically in the past two centuries, resulting in the largest per capita food supply in the history of mankind (inequitable distribution is the reason for hunger, not a limit of supply), meaning we've been producing (in some cases) triple the food per acre of just half a century ago. That being said, I think underground living (at least partially underground) is a great idea. Why build houses out of wood, which is not only a limited resource, but flammable, not tornado proof, and must be heated and cooled constantly. A house with thermal mass, in the form of large amounts of soil, requires much, much less fuel to heat and cool, not to mention being storm proof, fire proof, and much more sound absorbent than the average stick home. Houses underground is a great idea, but farming underground is not (IMO). 28 Jan 2008 @ 05:41 by bushman : Tech. We have the tech to grow crops underground, we also have the tech to control Radon gas, probably the biggest problem with living underground would be the Radon gas. Still we have to look at deforestation, and fuel to transport the foods, but normaly its the good farm land that gets paved over with citys. Other entries in Housing, Building, Architecture 13 Jun 2006 @ 10:37: Roofs and Ceilings 16 May 2006 @ 10:35: American Architecture 23 Feb 2006 @ 11:11: Ionic Equation 31 Jan 2006 @ 13:08: The Wearable Home 1 Nov 2005 @ 15:52: Buy an underground city 25 Oct 2005 @ 23:03: New Orleans Arcology 17 Nov 2004 @ 23:30: 9/11 whistleblower fired 15 Apr 2003 @ 04:07: ideas please 29 Jan 2002 @ 12:52: Transparent concrete
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6 Oct 2001 @ 05:02, by Flemming Funch