{"id":2013,"date":"2013-11-25T19:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2013-11-29T19:54:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:54:29","slug":"rebirth-of-a-dymaxion-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/rebirth-of-a-dymaxion-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebirth of a dymaxion car."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word dymaxion makes me think of a lattice-work of struts which form triangles which form hexagons, which form a sphere.\u00a0 The design is intimately associated with Buckminster Fuller.\u00a0 A mind ahead of his time.<\/p>\n<p>So the idea of a dymaxion car is intriguing.\u00a0 And then it turned out that even the frame is built from wood (the renewable resource) &#8230; brilliant!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s still an issue with the energy required to move though.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-heading\" itemprop=\"headline\" role=\"heading\">BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/autos\/story\/20131125-rebuilding-the-future\">Rebuilding Fuller\u2019s Dymaxion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/autos\/story\/20131125-rebuilding-the-future\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2014\" alt=\"p01m62j7\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/p01m62j7.jpg?resize=624%2C351\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/p01m62j7.jpg?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/p01m62j7.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word dymaxion makes me think of a lattice-work of struts which form triangles which form hexagons, which form a sphere.\u00a0 The design is intimately associated with Buckminster Fuller.\u00a0 A mind ahead of his time. So the idea of a dymaxion car is intriguing.\u00a0 And then it turned out that even the frame is built &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/rebirth-of-a-dymaxion-car\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rebirth of a dymaxion car.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-environment","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-wt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}