Things Jason Says on Podcasts

…ship a refrigerator. It's very expensive to ship a house. And so often all the savings you got from the automation, you surrendered back in shipping cost, or you needed to build a factory every 500 miles. And so there was like an economic problem with shipping versus the expense of building new factories closer to market, things like that. And then the third problem is a product problem is like, because you have to ship these houses, you end up at some level having to optimize the house for a truck. And houses aren't for trucks, they're for people. The product should be optimized for people, not a road. And so those three things put together, I think, are the three things you would have to solve if you really wanted a modular construction company to work. But 3D printing, in a sense, we just kind of inverted the problem. We said, hey, instead of shipping the house, ship the factory. Like a 3D printer, another funny way to think about a 3D…

…like, and then the environmental impacts of operating a building built with those materials, the energy efficiency, the fire rating, wind rating, these kinds of things. So we have worked very hard on our mix itself to reduce the carbon emissions in our formulation of the concrete that we use. Of course, concrete is much longer lasting than a stick frame house in a drywall. Matter of fact, if I offered your listeners a million dollar prize to invent a building material lower quality than drywall that would still pass building code, no one would win the prize. It is literally the crappiest thing we can imagine to build with. So you're already at a low carbon basis relative to conventional construction methods. It's going to last much longer and it is much more energy efficient. That's partly material. It's partly the wall system that we've engineered that there's no thermal bridging inside the wall system. We have a You have like an exterior bead, an interior bead, and then we're careful to make sure that those who…