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The new "Auto-Rising Home" contains:
1) Vertical Rails upon which the house can slowly rise.
2) A trash compactor in the sub-floor
Over time, the household waste gets compacted right under
the house.
Benefits:
A) Decreases garbage pickup & disposal costs.
B) Decreases sensitivity
to rising sea-level
C) Identifies the worst consumers on topographical charts for
easy identification & interventions
D) Increases home value, as you have a mine underneath it,
with more rare earth minerals per volume than many mines.
(Assuming you throw your e-waste there too).
I can't see anything that could possibly go wrong here.
Floating houses in Holland
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6405359.stm
Floating houses, and yes with flexible hoses attaching everything [MisterQED, Apr 03 2014]
Permission sought for 'rising flood house' in Lincolnshire
http://www.bbc.co.u...ncolnshire-37961466
Now a reality. [8th of 7, Nov 14 2016]
[link]
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Why have a trash compactor in the sub-floor? Just
ensure that the house can both rise and fall. |
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Raise house. Place waste under house. Ensure
children and liked pets are not under house. Lower
house. Repeat. |
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With increased height offering better views, this idea might create a garbage market where one could buy garbage or near-garbage to prop up one's home. |
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Also, this will be a boon for house-front stairway manufacturers. |
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Both would be a source of tax revenue to help the less fortunate afford stilts. |
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[Max..] yes! The house becomes the compactor.
Elegant. |
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[porpoise]. Ah, yes, stairs. But, who wouldn't want
to climb a rope ladder to get to their rising house?
And, a slide or pole would be a decent descent. |
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Fireman's pole .. immediate bun. |
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The roof is not mine... but I will raise it. |
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This could solve the spent Uranium disposal problem. Everyone could have some in the floor to help compact the rubbish (which one ought to occasionally call "garbage" -- Is this getting irritating?) |
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Just think how much more interesting your cockroaches would be than your neighbours' if you managed to secure more Uranium than them. |
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I thought, "this is probably some form of house-in-
the-form-of-a-tethered-barge as a defense against
transient flooding". Then I thought "the water,
sewerage, electric and gas connections would be a
nightmare". Then I read more than the title, first
guess wrong, problems still apply. |
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// "the water, sewerage, electric and gas
connections would be a nightmare" // |
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Water, electric and gas - two flexible pipes,
one flexible cable - widely known to exist. |
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Sewerage is a little more tricky, but using a
macerator a flexible 50mm pipe should be
entirely adequate. |
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In areas that expeience freezing
temperatures, either lagging or trace heating
would be needed. |
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And after 500 years - an interesting dig for
archaeologists. |
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8th is right. As for sewage, it flows by gravity & has
vents to atmosphere by design anyway. So, all you
need is a drain pipe on the house going vertically
within a larger pipe that's fixed. & screens to keep
out the critters. Right? |
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//deter further crap from being carried into the
house.// |
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I, for one, support all paper and some plastic garbage
as methods of carbon sequestration. |
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Garbage can save the Planet! Quick! Start an organization that requires funding, and Protect Our Garbage from destruction. |
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<Notes that not only is [skoom]'s house higher than all the others, but
it appears to be supported entirely by piled up banknotes> |
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Mister President, we would be most greatful if you would assist us. We seem to have temporarily run out of space, and there's a little something lying on the path we wish you could see your way clear to looking after for us ... |
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No, no, of course we'll have fixed this by the time the budget allocation arrives, but at the moment the excess bundle of paper is terribly scruffy. Our engineers have assured us that by next week the house will have been modified to sequester more banknote CO2. |
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The basic idea is baked in Holland and several other
places. (link) I'm missing the whole "advantage" of
having my house on top of a festering pile of garbage
as any anaerobic pile would be. The two solutions
are the Chinese version where you turn the pile into
a methane extractor to power the house or the eco
version where you turn the pile into a compost pile
and use it to heat the house directly. |
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There is...a house...in New Orleans...
It's called...the Auto-Rising Home...
And it's been...the ruin...of many a halfbaked idea...
And [sophocles]...I think...this is one (organ solo) |
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Why leave now ? The party's just getting interesting .. |
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