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Build an Industry and a house for me

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Steel, Adobe, and No Power Bill

A subdivision that doesn't exist yet — because nobody has built it.

The frame. Steel skeleton, welded on site. No lumber, no trees cut. The steel is the structure; adobe brick or hempcrete is the skin. The house looks like any other house from the street. Inside, it's fireproof, termite-proof, and insulated better than stick framing — which means it needs less power to stay comfortable.

The power. Solar on the roof, mounted to the steel frame in whatever configuration the sun demands. Small wind units driving alternators for the lights. A shared battery bank — the Powerwall idea scaled to the whole neighborhood — so the grid sees one load instead of fifty spikes. The twenty-thousand-dollar battery cost gets absorbed into the build, not added on top.

The collective. Nobody thinks about a power bill. Ever. The houses feed each other before they feed the grid. When demand spikes, the neighborhood discharges. When it's quiet, it charges. That's a virtual power plant built into the ground, not bolted on later.

The ask. One prototype house. Get it permitted, get it built, show the county it works. Then the next fifty get easier. The technology exists today. The only thing missing is the first one.

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If intending to use Steel, They make steel houses,  the frame comes ready to assemble like an elector set or lol wooden tinkertoys. Lower costs, termite proof, hurricane resistance, earthquake resistance, lower insurance cost. 

consider Gemstone for the outside, not sure of durability as would apply to the "resistance" maintain of the structure, but would lower the cost instead of earth materials aka Brick or stone. Gives the appearance of pleasant neighborhood as well

Can have solar water heaters, reduce cost of ultilites. 

 

not sure about the Gemstone's ability to improve insulation versus a brick house. I live in an all brick house

 

Boxable is the right comparison. They fold a finished room, ship it flat, and unfold it on site. That is a cottage industry run at factory speed. The same logic scales: a steel frame kit, welded once, skinned in adobe or hempcrete, energy and waste built in before the first family moves.

 

Black water is the missing meter. Dilute it and you lose the signal. Collect it, test it, and the neighborhood reports its own health — diet, medicine, infection — without a survey. Then pyrolyze the solids to biochar and put the carbon back in the soil instead of a river. The constraint is real: biosolids can carry metals and forever chemicals, so the char only goes on non-food ground until the test says otherwise.

 

Here is the post, cut to the hook plus the body.

 

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A subdivision that never calls the power company.

 

Boxable already proved the method: factory the room, ship it flat, unfold it. Scale that to a steel frame kit, welded on site, skinned in adobe or hempcrete. Looks like a house. Does not burn, rot, or eat a forest.

 

Power is in the frame. Solar on the steel, small wind for the lights, one shared battery bank for the block. The grid sees one load, not fifty spikes. The power bill is designed out.

 

Black water stays on site. Collected, not diluted. Tested, it is a health report on the people who live there. Pyrolyzed, the solids become biochar and go back into the ground instead of a pipe. Char only on non-food soil until the lab clears it.

 

One prototype block. Permit it. Build it. Then the next fifty are a copy.

 

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First 280 characters are the hook. The rest sits behind Show more. Basic at three dollars a month is enough to post the long version. The checkmark is a separate purchase.

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As a personal preference monitoring and filtering the air inside of such a dwelling would be amazing. Remember. I happen to smoke at home, make it so that no one else breathes it. Elon or whoever will have to do even better filtration on Mars or the moon, . A home that is sealed tightly enough to do that other considerations have to be met for example a different atmospheric pressure from the external air. Not my lane though, 

Socially, smokers are still the best tippers and guests

 

Steel houses, easy to ship, screw together, not welded, has everything for inside except wiring, plumbing etc. BUT can do a complete house as well. Choose your own windows etc. 

Since I was a Steel house distributor, sure much has change, benefitting an even more economical cost 

 

 

Changing the air filtration can be done by the same vehicle hauling the shit . Discretion is part and parcel to this next issue. With privacy on one side and safety on the other. The filters have a good sampling of whatever was inside the dwelling down to the particulate matter. 

A neighborhood should not have a drug lab or explosives depot inside the wire. The rest of the domestic dust is unnecessary until the shit reports that someone has something, yeah again privacy health and safety. Considerations that always seem to be considered last..

Rose, yes every part of the structure should pay for itself and  Gem Coat can do that. As can black bags and small water towers for hot and cold water.

 

Feasibility request only. Not a construction authorization.

David Dobbins

256 Goodman Street

Bakersfield, CA 93305

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October 4, 2026

Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group

1518 Mill Rock Way, Suite 100

Bakersfield, CA 93311

Re: Feasibility of a covered aquifer loop and steel-shell block, Kern County

Gentlemen:

I am a Bakersfield resident asking for a feasibility study, not a build. The concept is a residential block served by

a dedicated aquifer well, a covered conveyance, and a treatment step before any water reaches a city pipe. A data-

center cooling loop may share that conveyance later. I want your judgment on whether the water half can be

permitted and built in Kern County, and what it would cost to find out.

The water scope I am asking you to test:

1. A dedicated well, permitted for the full block on day one, separate from the city drinking loop until a

treatment plant says the return is potable.

2. Covered conveyance the whole run, banked with bamboo and hemp for shade, so evaporation is a

measured loss and not an open ditch.

3. A return target of about three quarters of what the well lifted. That figure is a target, not a measurement. I

want you to say what Kern sun and a cover actually return.

4. Outlet from a future cooling hall filtered the hour it leaves, then gravity to a wetland. Live beavers or

beaver-dam analogs to hold speed and drop heat. Far cells available for waterfowl and seasonal hunting.

Nothing to daylight until cool and clean.

5. A navigable channel to each house so a waste boat can take black water and filter cartridges without a

truck on the street.

Power, steel shells, and agrivoltaic panels over fruit and nut trees are outside this ask. I will take those to a

fabricator. Your work is the well, the cover, the wetland, the treatment gate, and the channel.

Please reply with the scope and fee for a fatal-flaw memo: water rights, well yield, cover versus open loss,

discharge temperature, and whether a navigable service channel is even legal on a Kern parcel. I will not authorize

design until that memo is in hand.

Respectfully,

David Dobbins

Bakersfield