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A neighbourhood of houses, each
house built on a turntable, powered
by solar panels on the roof or a small
windmill. Like daises, as the sun
moves through the day, the houses
turn to face it - power stored in
batteries allows the houses to turn
back at night.
Time-lapse
footage of
these houses shows them
all rotating in unison (while their TV
satellite dishes remain
fixed)...
In the gardens of
these houses, the circular lawn is on
its own turntable, geared to the
house's turntable, rotating in the
opposite direction. The garden shed
is on it's own smaller turntable,
rotating faster than the lawn or the
house...
(... blah, blah, blah
... technical stuff ... services ... gas ...
water ... circular porch around the
house ...)
(?) similar type of house
http://www.thesandi...1771426/detail.html
for real [sartep, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) RotoHaus
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/RotaHaus
Now I think about it, this was probably the inspiration - the important bit though is the image I was after here - that of the entire neighbourhood of houses turning to follow the sun. [hippo, Oct 05 2004]
solar panels
http://www.otherpow...ower_solar_new.html
see "tracking the sun"... [oatcake, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Rotation Outlet
http://www.halfbake...a/Rotation_20Outlet
by sdevet. Seems relevant. [my face your, Oct 05 2004]
http://entertainmen.../article4207801.ece
[hippo, Jun 25 2008]
Rotating houses? Pah!
http://news.bbc.co....le_east/7472722.stm
[coprocephalous, Jun 25 2008]
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Were you by any chance watching the Chelsea Flower Show on BBC2 last night? |
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no, why? - did they have a rotating
garden? |
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Some kind of weird rotating driveway with a Morris Minor and lots of flowers on it. Wasn't really watching so not sure what the point was - just thought that it may have been your inspiration for this. |
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"because it's there" - yeah, right. You just want to see a turd slowly rotate in the lav. |
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Wouldn't it be easier to just have the panels turn? Besides, think of all the confused stumbling drunkards who come home late at night/early in the morning...where's the door? |
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//think of all the confused stumbling drunkards who come home late at night/early in the morning...where's the door?//
You mean 1/5 of the 'bakers? |
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[oatcake] Yes, but this idea is not
about what's easiest, or the best
solution for solar power - it's all
about the aesthetics of having a
whole neighbourhood of houses
all slowly rotating. |
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This is a good idea as it will also improve the quality of life for millions of tribes people in the amazon basin as their homes are being destoryed by global warming. |
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I went to see the Beastie Boys and they had a revolving stage. It was cool. I like this idea a lot. + |
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"Look at [Rods] house - He must
be Sagitarius!" |
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http://www.hfmgv.org/dymaxion/ |
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Why stop at rotation - why not have the houses jostle for the best positions, so each gets as much sunlight as it can? |
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[kidmoe: good link! You can make it clickable by using the "link" button to the left.] |
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Variation I imagined: make all the houses round, and make some of them rotate the opposite way. Then paint giant gears on their roofs, so from the air it would look like the biggest clockwork mechanism ever built. |
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Some French bloke who's name I can't remember and I can't find anything on google about biult a house on the chassis of a dragline excavator. The house not only rotates but can travel along the raod at 4mph. |
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How about the houses are fixed, and instead a mirror is mounted in front of the building, and programmed to rotate in such a way such that it always reflects sun into the house? The control program would not need to be intelligent or anything, as the rotation of the sun around the world obeys a fixed, and known, formula. |
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There's one up the road from my house. Not solar powered, but rotatable and standing on a short pole. Looks like it was built as a display home, in the late 70s or early 80s by the style, and there's an explanatory sign out the front, trumpeting the usual "home of the future" guff. It's on the road out to the tip, and abandonded. |
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