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Old 01-20-2020, 02:11 PM   #399 (permalink)
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In the 1920s Buckminster Fuller specced 'vacuum glass panels' for his Dymaxion house. Now Tesla are patenting technology that implements this:

electrek.co: Tesla has new glass technology for noise reduction, temperature control, and more
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