David Branccaccio

Edith Bunker.

You know, she's way ahead of me in the reconstruction process.

And, you know, if you want to stand up to fire, that's certainly one way to go.

There are costs to that as well.

Concrete is carbon intensive.

It requires lime to make concrete, which is fired at very high temperatures that often use fossil fuel and so forth.

And so that's one of the trade-offs.

In my case, trees are a carbon sink, right?

They take in carbon dioxide.

And if my house lived another 100 years or 200 years, it would take that, quote, carbon off the market.

Speaking of concrete, you want to go the whole hog on innovation, you can 3D print houses.

Right?

You can 3D print a house, which it comes out like a meringue in these little strips.

And there was a lot of early interest in 3D printing for houses in the wake of the California wildfire.

I think some people are trying to go for it.

I've not seen with my own eyes—

a property where they're trying that yet.

But where the economics would really be efficient is if you got five or six neighbors on the same block wanting to go for it, because then you could bring in the equipment, your giant 3D printer, and squeeze out a bunch of these babies in the same couple of weeks.

But if you got eight houses kind of close to each other,

Getting a bulk rate for those, maybe they wouldn't be so much more expensive.