Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn speaks at Harvard Commencement 1978

If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge: We shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era.

This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but – upward.

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm

Anyone wonder why they don't build houses like this in the California fire zone? Could it be because PG&E would lose a customer?

Want To Build An Energy Efficient House? Try Concrete

In the small town of Warren, Vermont a so-called “net zero” house is being built that will not use any fossil fuel. The house has solar panels on the roof to generate electricity and pipes in the ground to capture geothermal energy for heating. It won’t be using power from the grid that was generated with fossil fuel.

http://www.wnpr.org/post/want-build-energy-efficient-house-try-concrete

So what do you know about concrete, anyway?

Oh really!

>>3954493

Have Heidi Romanova from Playboy

The Concrete Battery. That's right, power storage made of concrete!

Swiss startup Energy Vault is stacking concrete blocks to store energy - Quartz

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

Energy Vault 's concrete battery system uses concrete blocks and cranes instead of using water and dams. Concrete batteries stack concrete blocks at a high place instead of pumping up water that was done with pumped hydropower, and lower the concrete blocks stacked when the electricity demand exceeds a certain level to the ground in order by a crane I will. The drop energy generated in the cable will be supplied as electric power when this block is lowered to the ground.

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20180821-concrete-battery-swiss-startup/

Imagine the world when human creativity is RELEASED!

>>3954536

How to prepare your solar battery bank for winter

https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2016/11/prepare-solar-battery-bank-ready-winter/

Winter weather can drastically cut battery capacity and lifespan—but it doesn’t have to. Proper storage, depth of discharge and maintenance will help prepare any battery bank for winter and maximize lifespan and capacity.

Energy Vault to build grid-level, gravity-fed battery from a tower of concrete blocks

https://newatlas.com/energy-vault-concrete-tower-battery/57164/

>>3954563

Here is an LA Times article about experience from the Mexico City earthquake. It all depends on how the concrete building is built, i.e. NON-corrupt building inspectors are key.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-mexico-earthquake-california-20170920-htmlstory.html

Brittle concrete collapses, but concrete that is built correctly, will survive. So while all concrete resists fire, it is the internal structure and the dimensions that determine whether it can resist earthquakes. Compare the thick pillars holding up a California highway overpass with the thin ones in the eastern USA.

>>3954525

WTC was built of steel, not concrete. The steel collapsed. All the building support was steel columns.