NASA's New Base Uses Smart Spaceship Tech on the Ground

this is a good article

now why dont houses have this tech?

@extremechiton

Houses do have this tech to a somewhat lesser extent. You can have your home converted into an eco-friendly dwelling for a considerable sum of money and your house will be heated by the sun via solar panels in the winter, and cooled by geothermal wells via pipes in the summer.

As far as houses and buildings with brains, that just seems like something that only a super rich engineer might have controlling his house while he's busy building weapons systems for his defense contracting enterprise.

Overall good article. Yet another reason why people should not count out the agency responsible for moving human life on the planet earth forward.

"Welcome! to the Federation Starship SS Buttcrack!!!"

How much of our tax dollars is this thing going to cost?

72 wells and a house full of sensors sounds expensive.

All the energy savings will be lost with the extra expense of construction.

NASA is so good at spending our money. Still flying 30 year old shuttles but we got money for this?

How much electricity will all those sensors and the computer system use?

PeteDSL Chula Vista
In response to ljscreenwriter.
Who cares how much electricity the building or any other project uses. What is important is how much energy the building takes from the Grid. As long as all the energy is generated on the property without taking energy from the Grid or the chemical power industry or from petroleum, then the power is either socially neutral or can be set up to be socially positive by adding power to the Grid or chemical power networks.

Any chance the code running on this the computer control system could be made public? Tax payers did pay for it after all.

This is absolutely wonderful! I don't think I've ever seen anyone go platinum with the LEED certification standards. Zero net energy consumption and 10% comparable water usage is a huge step in the green direction, and I imagine that it's completely plausible to use this as a basis for moon colonization if they pull it off. Here's hoping... www.everblueenergy.com/leed-certification.html

I'd rather my tax money go to something like this that will help revolutionize our nation in the near future then to have it go to some corporate greedy fat cats that are doing nothing for society or out nation. The building is a marvel it use's 10% of it's water from the grid and the rest from nature and most of it's electricity they create themselves solar or otherwise so they most likely use less energy from the grid then any of our homes and give back to the grid witch will pay off faster what they spent to build it. Not to mention that a lot if not most of there building material is from recycled material from some of there older buildings etc... Anyway great job NASA continue with the great job with everything your doing.