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There's a reason houses aren't built like grain silos.

This article and digital rendering has seemingly managed to convince you otherwise.

The reaaon is that those houses are not built in the desert. Your point is invalid.

You have to protect the plants from the drought and humans from sandstorms. You can not cover a km wide 100m tall city, it has to be 200m x 500m. (numbers are arbitrary, but it has to be compact and as always, biger is cheaper, if 200x200 already covered "up" it is.

But of course the whole idea is just "clickbait".

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