Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-mile Dome

[wraggster]

A Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents. (They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and HUD seriously considered funding their proposal.) The city's architectural concept included supporting the Dome with air pressure slightly above atmospheric pressure. (Buckminster Fuller warned their biggest challenge would be keeping it from floating away...) There would be no more heating bills, fly-fishing all year, and no more snow shoveling. And to this day, the former city planner insists that 'Economically it's a slam dunk.

http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11...-a-1-mile-Dome

[the_eternal_dark]

Isn't there a book coming out by Steven King with a plot similar to this?