RE: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[

I can envision GEV's for use as inter-city transport but within the
city, they become less efficient - waiting at stop lights, making lots
of sharp turns...  Roads will probably exist in and near cities/towns.

Plus do you want to constantly have the high pitched sound of a turbine
running outside your house?

Pre-fab houses are usually dependent on much of the difficult parts
being done - foundation, major utilities such as sewage and main water
line are already in.  All the pre-fab parts are walls and a roof.  Then
there is still electrical, interior plumbing and stuff like that to
install.  When you add in the foundation pouring time and the effort to
dig in the sewage/water lines I would think it runs closer to a week to
put up a house.  If it's more like a mobile home, then I think I would
have less structural integrity than a house with a concrete foundation. 
This might be acceptable as a short term solution, but I would think
that people would want something more substantial.

Even if units only took 2 people a weekend, for 250,000 people that's
either a lot of weekends or a tremendous output of material from the
pre-fab factory in just a few weeks - 250,000 walls and 62,500 roofs for
a family of 4.

In either case, I think it means a lot of employment for people for a
few years.

--Binhan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laserlight [mailto:laserlight@quixnet.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:09 PM
> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject: Re: B Ark Colonist and Colonial Industry... [LONG[
> 
> 
> > A colony is unlikely to have all the population concentrated in a
> small area.  A good chunk will be devoted to transportation - raw
> materials and goods.	Another will be devoted to making
> infrastructure - roads,
> 
> Roads are incredibly expensive to build and maintain.  Is there any
> reason not to use GEVs instead?
> 
> >apartments, houses.	Think of how long it would take to generate
> enough single-family housing for 10,000 people
> 
> there are prefabbed houses now which take 4 people one weekend to
> erect.
> 
> > Education - assuming a low student to teacher ratio - 1:20 or 1:15,
> assuming education lasts a total of 17 years to the equivalent of a
> bachelors degree, if 20% of the population is school aged that equates
> to 50,000 kids then 2,500 people will be involved in teaching
> positions.
> 
> electronic learning should help improve the studn to teacher ratio
> quite a bit.
> 
>