how much should a home weigh

When a home uses 90% less resources, then that means it will weigh 90% less in weight





Diagram above shows a traditional home and a buckminster fuller designed home




Diagram above shows a building which is 90% less in weight due to the fact it uses 90% less resources

One of the big secrets I discovered when studying buckminster books has been that you have to consider the oxygen inside the dome. Surprisingly there is a huge amount of weight in oxygen and when the suns energy touches it, it looses some of it's weight. Basically what happens is the sun heats the oxygen inside the dome like a green house and the temperature of the oxygen inside the dome becomes a lot lighter compared with the oxygen on the outside of the dome.

You could say the oxygen on the inside is trying to push out of the dome. The extraordinary thing is the direction of the force is in the opposite direction of the weight of the building force and is so great it takes away a lot of the weight of the building. You could call it a counter balance weight, as the building is super light to start with the question could be asked how much does the building weigh when this is going on?



The diagram above is a dome structure which is being picked up by a helicopter. On another blog I will explain some more buck-minster secrets about the weight of domes which you can clearly see use different laws to nature compared with the gravity weights which could be found in the homes we currently live in.


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