Image via GOOD How much does the US subsidize the various players in the energy sector? If you’re a regular Treehugger reader, you’re probably aware that the federal government doles out hefty sums to the oil industry , and that it lends also lends a hand to the nascent renewable sector as well. And of course, there’s ethanol … But who gets what? With another
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Back in about 2004, in the early days of the modern prefab craze, I first learned of Peter Strzebniok and his Nottoscale prefabs . At the time his designs were based on ” a steel framework which allows individual building elements to be interchanged.” It seemed complicated , and I don’t think any of them got built. But now Peter is back with his T-Modulome , and it has been built, with a much simpler structure, and a bigger plan, providing a good demonstration of how the industry has e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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T-Modulome From Nottoscale Demonstrates The Evolution of Modern Prefab
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Images credit ACS TreeHugger has shown quite a few shipping container houses and even a few shipping container buildings , but never anything on the scale of the work of Allied Container Systems ; they build entire cities out of shipping containers. But they are not inhabited; they are giant sets, training facilities for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) There are lots … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Allied Container Systems Builds Entire Cities From Shipping Containers
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Living Steel commissioned an interesting article on the history of steel and iron prefabs. Professor Miles Lewis explains how Britain shipped wrought iron and corrugated steel houses to California and Australia during the gold rushes of the 1850s, when housing was in short supply. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Prefab Is So 19th Century: Iron Prefabs Shipped ‘Round The World
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All images courtesy of Design Flute “Plug-in living” is coming to India, in the guise of what design blog Design Flute is calling India’s first prefab green villa. Designer Pinakin Patel calls it the Hara Villa- Hara being Hindi for “green.” … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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India Goes Prefab (PHOTOS)
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