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[Amanda_931]

Handful of interesting things.

Like a LEED certified church in Canada that went after sustainability because it seemed like the spiritual thing to do--"Thus it has passive solar heating, natural daylighting, heat recovery wheel, a living wall and rainwater collection."

Heat recovery wheel seems to be one type of heat exchanger.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/a_leed_christma_1.php

Slab--log, steel, glass etched with doily patterns, etc. furniture.  The custom section has hundreds of things in it.

http://www.johnhoushmand.com/

But I think we've seen these before:

http://inhabitat.com/2006/12/22/prefab-friday-clever-homes/

[Amanda_931]

Build a Tesla Turbine out of dead hard drives (using some kind of milling machine).  Not quite sure what you'd use it for, but it sounds cool.  The comments are pretty interesting.  One from an ex-engineer for Pratt and Whitney.

http://www.instructables.com/id/E5R0LEN6OFEP287CZL/

[glenn kangiser]

Houshmands stuff looks just like mine, Amanda.

I wonder if he uses a chainsaw and nail gun?

[Amanda_931]

Somehow I doubt it.  

Saw kerfs are too big for those folded walnut pieces.

and besides he couldn't charge as much.

[MountainDon]

Don't ya just love / hate Houshmads stuff. Here I am feeling pretty good about some of the stuff I've made, and especially proud of some of the ideas of stuff to make, then along comes Houshman and like wow! .... I'm so nowhere, so nobody. .... gotta go sharpen the chain saw, hey Glenn!

[glenn kangiser]

He's got me re-evaluating my scrap pile now.  I think I'm sitting on a goldmine.

I never did see a price on that stuff.

If I have to ask  I'm sure I can't afford it. :-/

[Amanda_931]

Considering that there were a handful of pictures of using a crane to get a heavily wrapped bench into an upper story window, I'd say that "if you have to ask you can't afford it" is a good bet.

I came away from looking at his pieces thinking, "I really love the ideas, but I didn't see anything I really wanted."  The twice-folded Walnut tables with glass shelves  left me cold, and there were table legs and feet that would leave gouges in the floor, and so on.

There are "interesting" slabs all the time up in the waste pile near the sawmill up in the next county.  I've been picking them up.