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  • From: "Trudie Redding" <tredding@mail.utexas.edu>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Take two-tunnels, root cellars
  • Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:49:48 -0500

Ok, now we're goin somewhere! Probably has been discussed before but
this is related to grass roofs and sunken houses which may maintain a
neutral temp summer and winter if designed and implemented using the
attributes available at the site of the building and of the surrounding
land, eg. Use rocks if you have lots of rocks, make bricks if you have
the stuff on your land or use adobe or straw, depends on where you are,
but imbed your house in the land if your land will be above the water
table.
No details on food storage though, but I'm sure you'll hear from others
soon.
Trudie
Telephone: 512-471-8044
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While in East Texas, I asked all the natives what I could do about
cooling in that humid, damp heat.

Everyone said "AC" except one person.

He said he knew a guy that took 55 gallon steel barrells and cut the
ends off of them.

He then used a backhoe and dug a ditch/tunnel from his house to about
100 feet away.

This ditch was deep enough for the barrels to lay horizontally and still
be buried by 2 feet of dirt.

He then welded the barrels together, end to end, in the ditch/tunnel,
put a swamp cooler on one end ( no water but with pads to keep the
critters out), and connnected the other end to his house's duct work.

He then buried the barrels in the ditch, covering them with 2 feet of
dirt.

I asked if it smelled and was told it smelled a little earthy but other
than that there wasn't a rotten smell or stench.

I asked if it kept the house cool and was told he was suprised at how
cool the system did keep the house but couldn't tell me the exact inside
temperature of the house.


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