Andrew: idea: a machine that eats dirt and prints roads
Ilya
· 1 year ago
How huge would it be to be able to: 1. lay and press all the layers, 2. generate the 15,000 C plasma to fuse together the materials?
Here is someone who patented the "Rapid Road Repair Vehicle" http://www.sandia.gov/media/pothole.htm "Under ideal conditions [..] the vehicle could possibly patch roads at up to 35 miles per hour [...] [u]sually, however, [...] it [will be] moving at 10-15 mph"
BTW, are we supposed to have flying cars already? Then we wont need much roads...
ph0rque
· 1 year ago
I don't think it would need to be larger than a bus/RV... there would be little pressure needed, because of the high temperature of the freshly-printed road; the plasma torch itself wouldn't need to be very large (http://science.howstuffworks.com/plasma-convert...)
Tim
· 1 year ago
the challenge would be to make this machine lay down all the necessary levels, mandated by whoever mandates these things. (i picture a guy in khakis and a pressed shirt, with a big yellow helmet and safety glasses, looking at a half-rolled-up blueprint and pointing to some object behind the camera).
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Here is someone who patented the "Rapid Road Repair Vehicle"
http://www.sandia.gov/media/pothole.htm
"Under ideal conditions [..] the vehicle could possibly patch roads at up to 35 miles per hour [...] [u]sually, however, [...] it [will be] moving at 10-15 mph"
BTW, are we supposed to have flying cars already? Then we wont need much roads...
examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road#Construction and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PavementStra...