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Walking through the real deal Earthship

This is an excellent walk through of an Earthship built by Earthship Biotecture in Miles City, Montana.  It is very representative of the standard Earthship layout that has evolved over recent years (almost identical to the Earthship in Ger, France).  It is also valuable in showing you what kind of noise the WOM (Water Organising Module) produces.  It’s encased in a box and some Earthships have also used insultation to limit the noise. 

The cool thing is that here in New Zealand I have seen a very affordable, waterproof (IP56) filtering system that can be sited outside of the house, reducing the noice pollution in house.  I hope to include a review of the product sometime soon (along with a review of a NZ made rainwater harvesting system).

Another Earthship Being Built In Billings, Montana

There’s a new type of home being built near Miles City that will cost its owner nothing to heat or cool.

It’s called an Earthship and it’s a self sustaining home which provides heating and cooling, electricity, sewage treatment, water harvesting and food production. not to mention a zero utility bill.

“To me it makes sense; a building that will basically take care of you and itself,” said Demian Larsen, Earthship Builder. “I can leave and not worry about lines freezing or paying power bills.”

Earthships have been built all around the world, but this is the latest, an 1,800 square foot home located just a few miles outside Miles City.

Almost every part of an Earthship is eco-friendly, including the roof, which catches water and channels it through filters for consumption, cleaning and bathing.

Instead of wood and cement, the major building component of the earthship is low-priced automobile tires which are filled with dirt to create earth bricks.

Other ways this green house will save you some green is through solar panels that keep the inside at a cool 72 degrees.

“There’s a shallow indoor planter that will provide herbs, lettuces, small gardens and deeper cells for small fruit trees, bananas and avocados.”

While Earthships continue to help the environment and eliminate utility

via Earthship Home | KULR-8 TELEVISION – Billings, Montana | Local Top Stories.