The World’s Largest 3D Printer Is Building Cozy Homes From Wood
4th June 2024
CNN.
“Cozy” is Voice-of-the-Crust for ‘small’. The home in question is 600 sq. ft., which is about 25×25. That’s a good size for a one-bed apartment, but not what I’d call a ‘home’.
The new printer can produce objects as large as 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet?high and can print up to 500 pounds per hour. Dagher says that the goal is to be able to print 1,000 pounds of material in an hour. At that rate, it could reproduce the BioHome3D in 48 hours, he says.
96′ x 32′ is 3,072 sq.ft. Yet what they ‘bolted together’ is only 600 sq.ft. Hmmmm….
Notice that the walls are 3D-printer horizontal wavicles, which will attract dust like nobody’s business. The first thing people are going to do is plaster that wall flat, or sheet-rock it. So much for the warm-fuzzy-wood vibe.
There are some obstacles to overcome first. “It takes years for codes to change,” says Dagher, referring to building codes that construction companies must meet.
Your tax dollars at work. Good luck getting that past the bureaucrat-and-union-pillared Democrat regime in most urban areas. The reason housing costs are so high in the People’s Republic of Maine is because government employees are restricting the supply of housing through strict zoning and environmental regulations, and union labor are filling their pockets and won’t look kindly on somebody trying to bring in a 3D house printer to ‘take union jobs’.
Will CNN report on it when it all comes a cropper? I think not. (‘Oh, look, MAGA squirrels!”)
Watch: Why 3D Printing Buildings Leads to Problems