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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 11/11/2005, you wrote:
> I was hoping to find people here exploring alternatives to the tried and 
> true. The idea is,  can
> we use our current industrial capabilities to mass produce ultra-low-cost, 
> air-deliverable
> shelters suited for many climatic regions. That's what I'm asking. I'm 
> talking about McShelter.
> What do we have now?

Go back to the Fuller links.  His idea was a metal house that would arrive 
on site on a single flat bed trailer which in his time would be about 
15,000#.  Everything on the trailer would be used including the shipping 
container, the trailer would leave empty with no scrap left behind.

His early ideas that were to become temporary military housing during WW 
II.  He used ideas from the Butler steel grain bins of the time.  His later 
ideas used materials and techniques developed by the aircraft industry 
during WW II.  Who knows what ideas could be developed with modern 
materials and techniques.

Don Bowen                          Awl Knotted Up

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