If YETI can make a cup that keeps water cold or hot for hours and a cooler that holds ice for hours, then why aren’t we building houses with that same material?

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If YETI can make a cup that keeps water cold or hot for hours and a cooler that holds ice for hours, then why aren’t we building houses with that same material?

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Answer 1

It is difficult to sufficiently scale the vacuum insulation to building sizes, the structures would need to be radically redesigned and it would simply be too cost prohibitive to build and maintain at scale. The buildings would also still need climate control, which is also hindered by the insulation increase, to combat internally generated heat from computers, people, machines, etc. That heat would be trapped inside the structure with less pathways to dissipate than before.