Please help me further these designs!
Remember the tsunami? The (poor) survivors flooded by the monsoon, out of the tents supplied by rescue agencies?
Remember the earthquake - the (poor) survivors queueing in the snow for a tent, 2 years later?
Did those stories make you want to do something practical to help (other than donate money to charity)?
I believe there's a much better way to help victims of disasters. I've launched a campaign
(www.the-alternative.org.uk)
(see: Project it - the design specifications for a MODERN, Weather-proof Emergency shelter...)
- it's a simple remedy a child could have come up with...
That's a very interesting point...so:
WHY isn't it being done?
If weather predictions are correct, we'll be crying out for better emergency / rescue services...
Therefore shouldn't we get our thinking caps on right now?
This IS a serious situation we're facing!
Projec it is going to take good brains to achieve...
So please get involved!
2007-09-02 01:03:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Trevor:
"it" is not a caravan. "it" is a new-style of affordable, MODERN home, prefabricated i.e. put together in a factory same as cars... but as spaceous as a double-decker bus. Importantly, it is water-proof- it doesn't leak EG. in floods, or sink like cars and caravans do. It's super-strong- unlike aluminium...
It's durable, recyclable... I could go on and on... But I value your contribution and the knowledge you could contribute may just be important / crucial... so please join the forum to discuss further!
www.the-alternative.org.uk
PS. To those who blame the victims - stating they are victims of flooding only to claim welfare - well, the disrespect you show your fellow man is shameful, your lack of knowledge deplorable - I hope you never end up in a leaky boat...
2007-09-02 07:54:45 · update #1
re the comment: "... 2 years later and there are still nearly 65,000 familys living in fema trailers..." That is appalling- the government have no excuse. Even more reason for Americans to join the campaign for improved disaster prevention and decent emergency shelters!
2007-09-02 10:15:25 · update #2
The Action Checklist is now On-line. (Thank you for pointing that out).
2007-09-02 10:16:48 · update #3
I've had a look through the booklet and sort of get the idea (I didn't read all of it).
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but the impression I get is that you've more or less taken a caravan and modularised it. I don't see any real practical applications for this other than that it's easier to produce. I think when it comes down to a matter of choice many people would opt for the conventional caravan.
I can see the practical advantages of quickly assembled modular housing and shelters for use in an emergency situation, where people don't have so much choice in where they're accommodated.
Again, apologies if I'm mistaken here, but it appears you've taken a good concept but have tried to develop it into something more complicated than it need be and have tried to find markets for it that perhaps don't exist.
Concentrate on the emergency shelter aspect, keep the design simple so that it's easier to manufacture, transport and assemble.
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Your idea is along similar lines to something we came up with a few years ago. My friends and I regularly take to the mountains and are involved in various mountain based activities. We needed something more substantial than a tent that could be used as a base, emergency shelter, medical room, store etc.
Whatever we came up with had to be easily transportable, lightweight, strudy, quick and easy to assemble and cheap.
The result was a modular shelter consisting of three sizes of panels that slotted into an aluminium frame. The design was very much borrowed from the old style secondary double glazing units in which the glass slotted into an aluminium frame with a rubber seal to prevent water ingress. All we basically did was to replace glass with box wall polyethylene sheets and put a groove on both sides of the aluminium so that adjoining panels could be slotted into place.
If you want to discuss anything further then feel free to email me or chat on IM (if I ever have it running). I studied architecture (not that I've ever used it) and my girlfriend is an architect who went out to Banda Aceh following the tsunami, one of her areas of particular expertice is low impact and temporary housing.
2007-09-02 06:08:31 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reguarding people in New Orleans,I'm sorry,but I have no sympathy for the majority of those people.They chose to live in an area that is partially below sea level and the rest only at sea level with a river on one side,a lake on one side,and the DAMN OCEAN on the other.They are welfare recipients that decided to depend on the government for handouts instead of being responsible for themselves.Here it is 2 years later and there are still nearly 65,000 familys living in fema trailers,mad because the government hasn't built them a home.Still just sitting around waiting for the government to do for them with yours and my money what their sorry butts should be doing for themselves.Welfare should be abolished and denied to those that are fully capable of doing for themselves.We could send all the ILLEGAL ALIENS home and put people that sign up for welfare to work.Make them earn their keep instead of sitting on their duffs and laughing all the way to the liquor store.I realize that there are times that call for people to help victims of natural disasters and I am eagerly willing to do so,but those that are socially worthless,,,,I say let them rot.
2007-09-02 04:28:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I know how to keep all those people from becoming victims in the first place. Tell them to move. If you chose to live in an area where things such as the ones you listed could happen to you, I have no pity.
Also, this is a Q and A board, not a copy and paste blog.
2007-09-02 02:38:23 · answer #3 · answered by crknapp79 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
When I click on the link for your "Action Checklist" it gives me a file not found error.
2007-09-02 01:09:38 · answer #4 · answered by tabulator32 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Selling your book I see.
2007-09-02 02:38:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Al, is that you?
2007-09-02 01:14:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is your question?
2007-09-02 01:08:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋