Vis dette opslag på Instagram A huge part of building an Earthship is pounding tires full of dirt. These heavy tires make up the walls and function as thermal mass taking up the solar energy during hot and sunny days to release it on colder days. This is what we call passive solar heating and is the only heat source in our house. Other more conventional houses tend to focus much more on isolation, but the fact is that thermal mass is an equally important part of keeping a house nicely warm. The same concept applies for a freezer; it saves energy to keep a full freezer cold compared to a half-empty one. Our Earthship consists of approximately 1,500 tires, and James have done this hard work almost single handed – an accomplishment Michael Reynolds himself has called pure madness 😅 So James is very pleased to be almost finished with this part of the building process. He now looks forward to a small Christmas break and new challenges after Christmas 🎄 • • • #earthship #permaculture #keylinedesign #holisticmanagement #easyliving #marketgarden #smallfarm #nodebt #freeliving #minimalism #nothingisordinary #getoutside #woodsman #offgrid #offgridlife #offgridliving #offgridfarms #offgridhomestead #homesteadliving #permacultureliving #foodforest #foodforests #forestfood #forestgarden #permaculturegarden #permaculturedesign #permaculturefarm #permaculturelife Et opslag delt af 🔅 Be self-sufficient 🔅 Be free (@family_in_the_forest) den 16. Dec, 2018 kl. 10.59 PST
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