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Please discussed further about pay load system

Met Matt and Goldie at an Adobe Floor workshop last weekend! Thank you so much for this video. Cheers!

I got something for you whats the long term effects of tires leaking chemicals and metals into the the ground water. Nobody ever talks about this. BTW I would vote with my feet on any state that requires a permit for rainwater and a well

My sons and I just got back from camping in Crestone a few weeks ago. I wish I had found your channel before our trip. I was hoping to show my sons a few alternative building techniques....but didn't find any active building sites while we were driving around the Grants/Chalet lots. I did show them the post and beam display in town....I'll reach out before our next trip. Subscribed....thanks for the great content.

Never use God's name in vain. Shame on you.

It came out looking fantastic!

Has anyone tried like 2 courses of tires with gravel, then bags on that?

Just remember to pin the bags with rebar so it doesn't slip

A mouse in a grain bin.........imagine that. LOLOLOL

I LIKE THIS!!!!! I grew up on a farm (60 yrs ago) and we had these types of grain bins. I always told my Dad that I thought they would make neat houses......I WAS CORRECT!!!

Textbook definition of crazy to build a house without a foundation because the owner is too cheap to pay $1000 for a rubble trench under a 2100ft2 floorplan. That's but a drop in the bucket in terms of how many worthless collapsing fiat dollars it takes to build a fort these days. The crazier question is the bermed back wall gonna be bags of fine blow sand laid straight and plumb in order to simplify his roof plate---or curved/battered for structural buttressing strength?

Got dang it. Here I am, popcorn ready, feet up with a soda ready to watch this foundation get built....

Thanks for posting

"tell us if we're crazy"😂 it's all about experimentation!

I think you should consider adding 10 or 20 percent Portland to the first and second row of bags Good luck

I totally get how these continual puzzles are! I don’t think there’s a wrong answer, just the right answer for you and your context. We’re lucky to have soil that drains well here, so awesome to take advantage of that fact! Wishing you well on your build and look forward to see how it develops!

Ya'll have a very Beautiful home!! It shows that Ya'll put a lot of blood sweat n tears into what you have now great job. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun enjoy

Dumping from battery is not a very good way to divert excess solar power. Doing that requires an extra KWH of battery storage, adds extra cycles to the battery, can leave you at the end of the day without a full battery and can damage batteries by not allowing them to balance. It is far more efficient to divert directly from array voltage into a higher voltage heater element. I can divert any excess 5 to 1,500W as it happens and never touch resources of charge controller, inverter or battery. It is amazing how much excess there is in solar systems and the time charge controllers are not putting all they can into the battery. I have a small system and even the laundry has a hot water tank. All cycles use hot water and the clothes come out steaming.

Thanks for the tour and all the info! With the house as is, in this video, how much does an Earthship cost to build? I know there is alot to factor in, but I was curious to this point in the video, withour the concrete floor, how much has it cost? Thanks for your time, appreciate you!

Missouri wind and solar is still in business. I live close to their store location in Seymour. They are awesome.

I have thought about a very closely related concept. If my panels fully charge my batteries by noon (for example), I could run heavy loads, even an electric dryer, in the early afternoon and still have plenty of sunlight to recharge the batteries before sundown, as if the heavy load never happened. But it did.

Perhaps have a on and off switch for the upper element? Like friends are coming over and you want that little bit of extra hot water, so you flip a switch and the upper one turns on. Perhaps a 120 vac element? Just a thought.

I was distracted by your concrete wall in the utility room built with car tires as aggregate. Thanks for the hot tip on the DC heating element.

Wow! A new one on me. Thanks for sharing!

Why aren't you using a solar hot water heater or a heat-pump hot water heater?

nice but what about more batteries

There is a common thing on water heaters that you should look into. They have two elements but only one is powered at a time by the controller. The way it works is normally the lower element runs to keep the whole tank at temperature. If you draw off so much hot water that the upper part drops below a slightly lower set point, they turn off the lower element and apply power to the upper one. This means that get get a few advantages: 1) The amount of hot water you can draw off before it gets really cold is increased a lot. This is because instead of trying to warm the suport cold water at the bottom of the tank you instead warm some that is already a little warmed, 2) The effective efficiency of the hot water system is improved because you are using a smaller tank that takes less power to keep hot.

You are charging another kind of battery and water can hold a lot of BTUs. Its really smart. At first it feels so counter intuitive because electric heat is known to be inefficient.

Nice

heating your water with photovoltaic is so silly. the old passive solar water heaters are like 4 times as efficient. i get it, you're trying to dump power; there has to be a better way.

Water heaters only run one element at a time. The top one runs until the water in the upper part of the tank is warm and then it turns off and powers on the lower element. You should be able to wire it up like normal one would think unless the switch over needs 208.

Wooohooo! Awesome!! Thanks for posting this. Can’t wait to install my own. Love you all!

Awesome system

Amazing looking house, and I love that you reclaimed so much stuff!

Glad I found you guys. Merlyn here...used to work at the Merc hardware.....living just west of Capulin now.

Good job!!!

Looking good.

00:41 Could not understand the name of the plans website, anybody?

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful back drop w/the mountains. Was the herd in the Baca?

Just beautiful place! Two very talented couple.

It looks amazing, congrats on completing your build!! Extremely practical that you guys separated the solarium/greenhouse from the living quarters as that's often a big issue with most earthships that have green house/living as open plan. They really overheat in summer with temperatures of 29C/85F indoors. Your design limits the flow of heat so you can cool it down in summer & open the windows to the green house in winter to warm the house.

Just imagine if you had bought land away from the Crestonarcissists of TrustFundTweakerTown. No methheads attacking cops with metal bars out where you don't have to beg the POA to plant food, and none of the local entitlement that has your neighbors arguing that they should have the right to assault lowly $20/hr public employees without consequence. After all, back in the good ol days of Deputy Wayne Clark, he'd even help your neighbors hide bodies. I checked prices recently, my 150 acres with 70 gal min artesian water flow would not even buy me half of a yurt on .88 acres in that least spiritual community in the valley. Objectively, it's rather obvious that there is more money than intelligence in that community. You could blindfold me and spin me around, and I could orient myself from the palpable banality of evil that emanates from that cesspool of humanity, from the House of Presstitution called the "eagle" whose editor is so dumb he thinks that an eagle sounds like a red tailed hawk, to the amoral sociopaths who run the mercantile, who literally take offense at the tone in which they are asked to stop their active finacial support for genocide. There's also the whole racism thing, where residents give deference to open members of religious orders that embraced the Axis powers in WWII (Specifically the imperial mind control cults that invert Buddhism). Just a warning for anyone, Crestone is an evil place, filled with the most vapidly narcissistic people on the planet. It also has a organized crime ring masquerading as a POA, which last I dealt with it was run by a defective clone of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The people from that town are despised as rude, arrogant, entitled, and incredibly dumb by the rest of the valley. You can get land other places in Saguache county, far cheaper, with better soil, water rights, and neighbors. Unless your idea of religion is self-worship, there is nothing at all in Crestone for you but a couple photo ops.

Wonderful to see your beautiful build here in Crestone! ❤

Thank you. Missouri W&S is the best.

What are the overall dimensions of the house?

Beautiful Home! The app doesn't seem to exist any longer, which is a bummer :( I would love to know more about the hot water system!

you should set it over a lazy Susan of some sort... easier to rotate it.