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ZippoZ
Knomadic


Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 13,227
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea
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building an in-expensive 800x800 roof
#5781345 - 06/22/06 06:23 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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okay, so once again im back on the track of building a production facility for bio-diesel and i found a wonderful hole in the ground that i can use as a starting point for the production
its about 400 foot in diamiter and 125,663 square feet ~ 2.8 acres..
I want to build a framework of a roof or dome over the pit, and cover it with transparent layers of plastic, atleast 2 so that i can capture the suns heat.
I was looking at geodesic domes, but came across the concept of a space frame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_frame.
is anyone here in construction? i was thinking that using electrical conduit with the ends flattened would be a possible way for build one of these space frames, but im not sure if that would work, or if somthig could be made cheaper...
anyone?
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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automan
blasted chipmunk


Registered: 09/18/03
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Re: building an in-expensive 800x800 roof [Re: ZippoZ]
#5783234 - 06/23/06 08:46 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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if you want to roof 3 acres, it's going to be really expensive no matter what you do. how big a roof do you actually need?
-------------------- No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. ~ Niels Bohr
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ZippoZ
Knomadic


Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 13,227
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea
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Re: building an in-expensive 800x800 roof [Re: automan]
#5795148 - 06/27/06 08:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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yeah i was looking at the practical aplications and have decided to go wiht 195 sqf conduit framed greenhouses for the fact of zoning and buildability
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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