Michael Reynolds came up with this concept when I was a teenager. being a wage-slave most of my life, I was never able to get to a position where I could build one, nor could I ever settle on a place I wanted to turn into a permanent home, but I'm over half a century old now - time to get serious about it.
Basically Michael takes old tires and cans and bottles and builds a house out of it by mortaring it all together, berming the earth up over and around it and creating a Hobbit Hole, insulated and protected by the earth, and built as inexpensively as your imagination will allow.
Their website : http://earthship.com/
describes it in detail.
They can be built anywhere, in nearly any shape, but in my eyes, form follows function. It catches the water off the roof and stores it for use. It uses the sun to heat it, thermal mass to store the heat during the day and release it at night, and the cool earth to keep it from getting too hot in the summer.
Having studied these for a couple decades, I have a few of my own ideas, and will probably illustrate them here just to get them out of my head and make room for more. Fortunately my drawing/3D modeling skills will make things easy to represent, in hopes that readers will bang on them with a hammer into an even better design :-)
I recently moved in with the only woman I've ever met who wants to do this. She's even worked out floorplans, as have I.We've both always felt that there will be a pretty big collapse in this world before we die, and we both have spent our lives focusing on different ways to deal with it. Earthships are one thing we have in common.
Here's the latest good video on the subject. Enjoy and learn. Most of these blogs will be about various practical applications that I would like to adapt to this concept.
Quick Overview
This video goes into the legal struggles Michael Reynolds had to go through just to get these off the ground so people could use the
Ahhhhhhhh - here's one for sale!
http://earthshipforsale.blogspot.com/
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