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Friday, 11 May, 2007
Living In A Vacuum
(with comments)
In 1932, a popular question was: Will we live in vacuum bottles?
What is a vacuum bottle house? It sounds fantastic, but science is developing a new type of house with vacuum walls, adapting the principles of the familiar thermos bottle, which will be so perfectly insulated that one ton of coal will do the work of nine. Some day you may live in one!
Let's see a show of hands. Who lives in a vacuum bottle house?
- By Sheldon. Comment posted 11-May-2007 @07:16am:If by "vacuum bottle house" you mean a van down by the river, then yes, I do.
- By Randy. Comment posted 11-May-2007 @07:41am:The insulator in a thermos was glass. Ever drop a Thermos. Shattered glass. Thermos useless. I guess that is where we get, "people in glass houses shouldn't..."
- By Cooper. Comment posted 11-May-2007 @08:02am:It's even got a screw top so you can fill it with hot liquids.
- By Bisbonian. Comment posted 11-May-2007 @08:09am:Who lives in a vacuum bottle house ...with a ton of coal?
- By . Comment posted 11-May-2007 @12:55pm:At various waypoints, haven't we all been accused of living in a vacuum, a bottle, and a house?
- By . Comment posted 11-May-2007 @03:03pm:How does it know if it should keep you warm or cool?
- By germinator. Comment posted 11-May-2007 @06:12pm:why don't we have a nice layer of insulating nothingness protecting us from the weather?
- By Tony. Comment posted 12-May-2007 @08:04am:...and nobody had yet mentioned that vacuums suck.
Anyway, we've got aerogel now.
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