Iowa city creating 10 homes with 3D printing

An Iowa city is making great strides with cutting edge technology, hoping to have 10 3D printed homes by the end of 2023.
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the first half of this clip was hilarious. The financial industry is having SUCH a hard time dealing with what the applications in 3D printing means for the real estate sector, mortgage-backed securities and the world economy as a whole. The guy calls the rig, an honestly pretty simple piece of equipment, a "giant robot" for a reason, to make it sound foreign and confusing (inaccessible) to the viewer. (and then he adds "which is weird" as if the adult viewers are 6-year-olds).
So, to counter that blatant bit of bold bullshitting, I'd like everyone here to know that that "giant robot", the machine itself, costs less than $50,000, and can easily print more than 4 single family homes per week, with materials costs (for the concrete structure printing) of less than $5,000 per sfh. The only thing standing in your way is your county's zoning laws. That's it. And those laws can ultimately be changed by who? Why, you, as it happens. The voters. He also makes a point to say that all the sub-sectors that will lose varying degrees of relevancy are all safe, that even though this new horseless carriage they'e calling a "car" won't need the blacksmith to shoe the horses, or the carpenter for the carriage, or the horse breeder, or the street-sweep to clean the horse poop, we're going to continue to pay for those things that have become obsolete. And by "we", we of course mean you. 90% of what we're still doing in HVAC on the average structure in this country is obsolete and grossly energy-inefficient. But hey, the energy sector has zero financial motive to complain about energy-inefficient buildings, do they?
This is the horse and buggy industry of the 1890's trying desperately to stop the takeover of the automobile, only now all the money in the world is behind preserving the horse and buggy industry at all costs.
3D PRINTING REDUCES THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION BY UP TO 90 (NINETY!) %
3D PRINTING REDUCES THE TIME SPENT ON CONSTRUCTION BY UP TO 95%
3D PRINTING GREATLY INCREASES OPTIONS FOR STRUCTURAL DESIGN
3D PRINTED STRUCTURES CAN BE EASILY DESIGNED FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY, INCLUDING PASSIVE HOUSE STANDARDS, TO A DEGREE THAT TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION CAN NOT MATCH
3D PRINTED STRUCTURES ARE FAR SUPERIOR IN STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY, WITH STRUCTURES RATED TO LAST 150+ YEARS, VERSUS 50 TO 75 YEARS IN TRADITIONAL CONSTRUCTION
And due to the grossly idiotic way we've structured our world economy, the applications of 3D printing in construction means that the world's banking industry now needs to be re-written, because we assumed the ubiquity of the 30 year mortgage would last for eternity and so we used it as the backbone of our banking industry. We failed to anticipate how that would be smashed to pieces when technological advances produced a method of construction that reduced costs by up to 90%, resulting in most of the population no longer needing 30 years to pay for a better, more energy efficient home than ever before, that they can now pay off in 3 or 4 years.
Take a moment to think about all the ways that simple technological breakthrough and it's implications on our economy will change our society. What kind of freedom and power will the average worker gain when a house can be paid off in 4 years? Wall St would lose everything, and make no mistake, they will and are doing everything they can think of to try to prevent this inevitable tidal wave from wiping them to oblivion.
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Google it. Just google it. Ecosia, bing, whatever you like. Research Goldman Sachs buying out ICON right after ICON had proof of concept. Research how ICON was affected before and after Goldman buyout. There's a lot of material on this subject that the news media will straight up fire their reporters for even asking about. The only reason we're NOT living in a markedly better world right now is because the banking industry is trying to prevent, restrict and control the flow of information of technological breakthrough.