http://www.permatherm.net would be along the lines of what I've been thinking.
On Friday, November 25, 2016 at 10:44:06 AM UTC-6, Vinay Gupta wrote: > > 2017: zero moop and recyclable materialsThe hexayurt has always been a > zero budget project - I paid for R&D out of my own pocket, and that's often > resulted in cheand nasty solutions. The polyiso board and bidirectional > tape "standard hexayurt" was cooked up one summer in a hell of a hurry, and > worked well enough that it became a standard, but I knew it was lousy from > a sustainability perspective, and the moop problems that have developed as > boards age or are badly transported are a growing problem at Burning Man as > we scale from a few dozen units to a few thousand. We have to be incredibly > clean, and incredibly efficient, for the hexayurt to stay part of the > solution rather than becoming part of the problem. > > To this end, I'd like to ask you a favour: retire any hexayurt which is > the least bit moopy, and replace it with something made of more durable > materials, things which will last a lifetime, ideally be recycled at the > end of life, and definitely, definitely will not moop at all in any stage > of their lifetime. This "let us not moop" thing should be obvious, but I > get the feeling that people have gotten so used to the "standard hexayurt" > that they are turning a blind eye to little problems on those battered > corners of a panel, or where tape has failed. Let us put a stop to that. > > So what to use instead of the standard hexayurt materials? I think there's > a good case to be made for sticking to tape, but moving to tapes which do > not degrade in the desert sun. They do exist: more expensive, but more > durable. Boards could also be fastened with metal brackets, zippers, > velcro, and half a dozen other things. Do some experiments, there's 9 > months until the next Burn, and this is supposed to be a collaborative R&D > project: in the face of trouble, let's innovate. > > Now let's talk materials. I hear great things about Thermax HD, but nobody > seems to be able to source it, and it's not recyclable even if it is tough. > Hunter XCI 286 seems to be about the same, but is (slightly?) easier to > obtain. Honeycomb Polypropylene looks interesting, I have a few sheets > kicking around at home, and there are clearly possibilities. But how well > does it insulate? Industrial sandwich panels are available in an almost > infinite variety of forms, that's also clearly worth further investigation. > > Please, make use of the mailing list > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hexayurt>, and let's put our > heads together and fix this once and for all: a new hexayurt template for > the next 10 years on the Playa. > -- > *Vinay Gupta * * hexa...@gmail.com <javascript:> * > *http://re.silience.com* <http://re.silience.com> > *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* > UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was > in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
