¶ Dome: rationale for the Big Dome
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Dome: rationale for the Big Dome:
"In many of our cities and big centers-- the way the consumption curves are going-- we are running out of energy. Therefore it is important for our government to know if there are better ways of enclosing space in terms of materials, time and energy. If there are better ways, society needs to know it. . .
The behavior of the geodesic dome was simply not predicted by engineering. The beam and column formulas could not possibly anticipate it. . .
We are still making geodesic domes on compression formulas and thus they are ten times as strong as they need to be."
¶ Citations
- RBF to Shoji Sadao, Chez Mrs. Eva Kaiser, Cambridge, Mass., 10 Feb '72.
