Timeline for Why haven't we built city-grade domes to protect and control the environment?
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Allen Gould | The other trick on size is that the largest dome we're currently building covers about 35 hectares (for mental imagery, about 35 sports fields). So we're talking a lot of domes. My hometown (pop: bit under a million) would need almost 2000 of these! | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 13:50 | comment | added | D. Alves | If I'm not mistaken NASA has developed some artificial habitats (that pretty much resemble the dome). If they builded such domes, then they know how to calculate precisely the stresses and selected materials. Perhaps that is a good pointer for @jdnero. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 13:44 | comment | added | D. Alves | But I'm not a material scientist I'm afraid; Any attempt I'd go to select a most suitable material (either glass, polymer, ..) would be out of my league. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 13:39 | comment | added | D. Alves | I mentioned the storms because, instead of buiding a dome on every major city, its more reasonable to build only structure in the wind fronts. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 13:37 | comment | added | D. Alves | It is my opinion that the efford to build such a city would be better focused on developing a shield like tecnology, than using the current materias we have avaiable. | |
| Sep 24, 2015 at 13:36 | comment | added | D. Alves | Thanks for the welcome. Indeed, I did not answer the question, but complemented the answer of others. That was because the economical and tecnological aspects have been well covered by @DaaaahWoosh and others. | |
| S Sep 24, 2015 at 13:27 | history | suggested | Tyrabel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Please, not "lol".
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 13:04 | comment | added | Tyrabel | Welcome to the site. You don't really give an answer on "what's stopping us from building domes", could you develop your ideas about the economic cost, and the wind deter ? | |
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| Sep 24, 2015 at 12:51 | history | answered | D. Alves | CC BY-SA 3.0 |