New Earthships capture more energy, water & food at lower cost

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US$ 219.000 ??
ITS half than this for sure

If you call your house "Earthship" i immediately know you gonna be obnoxious AF

Thank you for the video. I plan to build a small 50-60m house using some principles from both earthship and solar house designs. I would surround the house with earth to serve as thermal mass. Can you suggest any replacements for tires, please? The main reason is that I do not have the time or manpower available.

Mining and irresponsible development has already destroyed much of the American West. What you are promoting here leaves scars on the earth that will NEVER go away. There is nothing GREEN in destroying first and building second. It is NOT a "win-win" scenario. Long after the earthship structures are gone their rubble piles will remain, just like mining tailings. Furthermore; none of these owners have tried to regenerate what was once trackless sagebrush. The reason for this is simple, they have removed or compacted what little soil was there. That land is no longer "productive". These "earthshits" are an environmental abomination and the furthest thing from Green.
Please be more responsible with what you post and promote. In this day and these times, IGNORANCE is no excuse. Do you really crave attention that much?

Beautiful and amazing 🤩

Zero carbon zealots in the UK should be wetting themselves over this type of living but guess what they ate trying to stop it ie government its never about what they say its about

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Adobe or cob would be better. You could never convince me to live in a pile of tires. They are not eco friendly. In fact, I bet they are toxic, slowly leaching into your home and soil.

im sorry sir your house isnt deemed livable by state and county code, please demolish the structure immediately or your land will be seized and your body imprisoned

Great work, I lived in NM for a long time and visited the earth ships. The next level is not using fossil fuels at all. I see a lot of propane tanks and ICE cars here which drive climate change. If you had more solar with and EV with V2H you could drive on clean energy but also use the benefit of the EV battery to power the house.

That intro was complete nonsense.

1) You buy supplies for a sailing voyage
2) You sure as hell can't navigate around the earth with an earthship

Amazing!

my favourite by far

It's just a shame that most places have governments with restrictive rules on building, even if it is for yourself...they wouldn't want to lose the profits they make from having all of us dependent upon their systems they have set up.

I lived in one of these "earthship" houses in Vermont in the 1970s. We had solar panels, solar windows, integrated architecture and TWO windmills in the yard. We had a huge garden. We gave tours telling visitors how it was supposed to work, and were written up in various publications. But none of it worked and all of the people who built the place eventually moved out. It is amazing that people are still promoting these ideas. When I see these videos, I cringe. In fact, the most efficient way to live is in an apartment building in a village, town or city.

this is truly magnificent and im amazed at the renewability/sustainability of it all, i think it's the best part. a focus on limiting waste and reusing resources as much as possible in as many ways as possible is amazing. i do wonder though, how implementabe earthships are in scale. most real world applications ive seen are in rural areas, just like this one. kinda worrying

Where you get your water

we would love to build one of these in Northern Baja mexico!!

Cool! Thank you for sharing. I built a berm home in Mississippi 10 years ago. I used conventional construction - cement back and side walls and stick for the rest... but this is very appealing and better in so many ways. I had to leave that home and I now live in Texas in San Antonio - I am working on getting some land in the hill country and would love to build something like this there. Love the water catchment and use - cycling... very nice and makes so much sense. Only one problem with that I can see (as a prepper) - and that would be in the event that there is nuclear fall-out to deal with... God help us to not go there...

£100,000 to 1.5million for a build. This is not a viable solution to anything other than rich people greenwashing themselves. This is just an exclusive club for the wealthy.

The concept makes sense, but how many people could a house like this support, before you would have to start farming more land outside.

I like the concept, but the analogy sucks - how is a ship on the ocean self sufficient? when the drinking water is gone the crew dies :)

The first paragraph spoken by the homeown was so crunchy ridiculous I literally guffawed like a yokel sighting a cat trying to bury a turd on concrete

Nice house orgy mannn

I would love to live in a house like this it's awesome

This would make a really cool setting for a triller/horror movie. These folks know their land and living space better than anyone else !

The glass bottles walls give me trypophobia

cool

loved this . 😏

Since it doesn't move how is it a ship? It's an earth bermed home. Not even earth covered.

This is all great and lovely, but the elephant in the room is that this is a VERY low density development in a remote place so everyone is totally reliant on cars. e.g. I wonder how many of these folks are commuting in gasoline powered cars every day for work, or to pick up groceries and supplies etc. No public transport for these folks.

"OPTED OUT OF THE SYSTEM" Man i FELT that to the CORE.

Why not pi$$ straight onto the plants?

Yeah - isolated, cost a huge amount, large, need lots of land . I live in 600 sq ft and use a bicycle.

its amazing what low tech can do. technology has its benefits but can only go so far, but ingenious high efficiency designs like earthships can better the planet.

I love that it is composed inside dirt so to speak, I wonder about long term exposure of whatever wall there is to the ground/dirt while it gets wet etc. if it would work in more rainy climate at all. Love the ground heat exchanged, probably 100x cheaper than what I did, though you get no air polution there... Cost wise I am not so convinced having seen so many people working on it - however I am sure you can do it cheaper with other materials and some mechanical equipment.

Viga is just beam in Spanish.

This is not new. Been doing this for over 50 years.

um bela casa no meio do nada.

Hey I skied in Taos when I was like 16 with my friend and his family. So that's cool lol

what are the Radon values?

One thing I’ve been thinking about is how the ancient Egyptians used mirrors to reflect light deep into structures. With the right emplacements, it could be directed anywhere indoors. Also you could use a gravity as a battery, with sunlight pumping water to the roof during day, and flowing down at night through a turbine. Or even pressure storage. And magnifying lenses could concentrate sunlight for cooking, or heat retention in rocks.

I just bought my first home on an acre in Southern California and I'm planning on doing many of the things in the video with the key difference being that I'm going to turn the acre into a market garden. I've never understood why people own a home and land all just to have to go to work everyday and slave away for some company. I've always believed that a house should be an asset not a liability. Owning a home shouldn't provide you with bills it should provide you with an income. There shouldn't be any negatives involved with owning a home and property that makes no damn sense at all. What the hell is everyone doing? The American dream is retarded. I'm doing my own thing. I'm not working for anyone but myself and my home is going to make me money not cost me money. And because I'm actively engaged in my own destiny, the cycle is broken. My descendants will not live as slaves either. My family will forever live free off of our own work and our own dreams.

If only it was cheaper to opt out.

This house or one similar has been around for ever and sadly no builder is mass producing it. Oh my that would make people more self sufficient and not controlled by big industries.

What about the toxic ingredients in tiers which ex. can kill fish? Don't this rubber waste decompose and spoils all the aroundings and ground water?

I love that she says you need everyone, strong, skilled, not strong, ....everyone building a community. I fell in love with earthships in the 80s. I don't have one but built a passive solar home in Malaysia with no Aircon, water tank, compost bins, and garden. We need to be self-sustaining and minimalistic because everything we buy uses fossil fuel. Once we get off of fossil fuels we can try to re-create commerce and trade. In my dream world...😊❤

For the air vent, you should use a corrugated steel pipe escape tunnel, bury that into the ground farther away from the building in a hot climate like the desert lowlands. You then open a hatch in the floor for a fire escape, you can meet fire code this way. You should use a one way air vent on top where it come up out of the ground. You want a much bigger tube, so you can crawl in and access the tube. You can also install a blower fan to drop into the tube, push air in hot places. All you need is a solar panel and a battery box for the blower vent outside. This is if you wanted to get high tech, do more work with the excavator. I would try to make a relatively gradual slope of dirt, or find a sloped area to build behind.

Now for the greenhouse, if you wanted to get high tech with spending like no money. So you basically make a 4 foot deep 40x10 foot wide bathtub foundation for your front greenhouse with one exit and entrance on the same side, This is okay since we have a fire escape tunnel in the bedroom area. Do a 10x6 foot pond on the west side that's closed, connected to a 2 foot shaped channel along the front window. You have to make sure this can't leak or break cause it will flood your cave. In the narrow part of the pond, use hydroponic substrates and grow plants, 30x2 foot of planter can grow at least 12 types of plants, more than you think. Create a bulkhead drain on the outside for landscaping plants. This leaves you a 10 foot by 7 foot bathroom and entrance hall on the east side of the greenhouse foundation, north of this will be the utility room inside the home, with no window, since you don't need a bay window in a bathroom or utility. You can do the bottles for windows, wine jugs might look cool vertically and you can bury the top with mud.

In the big part of the pond, you can keep Koi and use a submersible pump to push water over to the plant side through a rubber tube 2 inches, no filter would be needed or any type of planter boxes, no plumbing or lighting either, no fertilizer, only a pump and tube. 3-4 feet deep is ideal for Koi since they get pretty big.The several thousand gallons of water with keep your greenhouse temps very stable, like the rest of your home. The pond and plant garden would be sure to look beautiful, no matter how you design it. The biggest cost would be the hydro substrates, you need like a truckload at least. Flush the toilet with your shower water and be done saving the planet with it... Clean water, filtered air and fresh aquaponic veggies will have you living like a million bucks, guilt and debt free life.