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["scrooge McDuck" <declan@planetmail.net>]

The cans and bottles are not support walls surely, and hardly can breathe, so they would cause dampness? They certainly would in a damp climate like Ireland,, where a cloud is never missing and it rains in all 4 seasons. We don't have monsoons, just constant rain nearly one day in two on average.

Also, what does 'Adobe' mean in a building context? I'm familiar with the software company but it's not a building term I have heard.
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Declan Moriarty
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On 27/07/2016, 22:33 Scott Vlaun <scott@moosepondarts.com> wrote:

My mother in law lives in a 25 year old earthship in NM. I've spent a lot of time in it and it is pretty fantastic. Can and bottle walls eliminate a lot of carbon intensive concrete as do massive Adobe thermal mass walls. The sculptural aspects, especially tile mosaic make for a very Inspired living space. Embodied energy per sq. ft. on these structures is extremely low and even in northern NM she gets by on less than. Cord of wood per year, only needed when cold and cloudy. I'm extremely sensitive to tire outgassing and have never even gotten a whit. Labor intensive to be sure though!

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Scott Vlaun
Center for an Ecology-Based Economy 207 520 0575

> On Jul 27, 2016, at 5:07 PM, Georg Parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Thanks Lawrence and Scott for this dialogue. Valuable.
>
> However, one question, Scott:
>
>
>> **Whenever possible eliminate using forest products in construction. The wood is much better used as a carbon sink.
>
> To my understanding wood IS a carbon sink - and if it sits in my house for 200+ years this is just as fine as sitting (and maybe falling over and rotting) in the forest. What is it I do not see?
>
> Georg
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