Selects: Geodesic Domes: The Wave of the Future That Wasn't

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🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Sometimes a good idea doesn’t pan out in real life. Take Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome: It requires less energy to heat and cool, it’s cheap, and it’s durable enough to withstand a hurricane – but it’s also godawful ugly and that was its undoing. Learn more with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.

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1:03.4	Hey everybody Chuck here in 2023, but I'm gonna hop us all in the way back machine and
1:11.1	take us back to December 2018 to listen to our episode on
1:15.7	geodesic domes because this ties into the live show that we did last year all
1:21.6	about the Biosphere 2 project. The Geodesic Dome figured in very
1:27.1	prominently in that project. We talk all about Buckminster Fuller in this
1:32.3	episode who also figured into that live pilot. talk all about Buckminster Fuller in this episode.
1:33.4	You also figured into that live podcast.
1:36.0	And check it out now if you're into architecture
1:39.4	or just cool things, listen to Geodes
1:42.3	colon, the wave of the future that wasn't.
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