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[Dick Fischbeck <dick_fischbeck AT yahoo.com>]

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>

> >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.

I am very glad to see this last sentence, Don. "Who knows" is the best 
question I've heard since
the tsunami.


                
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