Earthship - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 17
About This Presentation
Title:

Earthship

Description:

Sewage: Earthships contain use and reuse all household sewage in indoor and ... With any other alternative house building types, you might have a ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:602
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 18
Provided by: 163276
Category:

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Earthship


1
Earthship
  • A new way of building and living

2
The 6 Principles that define an Earthship
  1. Thermal/Solar Heating Cooling
  2. Solar Wind Electricity
  3. Contained Sewage Treatment
  4. Building with Natural Recycled Materials
  5. Water Harvesting
  6. Food Production

3
1) Thermal/Solar Heating Cooling
  • Comfort Earthships maintain comfortable
    temperatures in any climate.

4
2) Solar Wind Electricity
  • Earthships harvest electricity from the sun,
    wind, generator

5
The Power Organizing Module (POM)
6
(3) Contained Sewage Treatment
  • Sewage Earthships contain use and reuse all
    household sewage in indoor and outdoor treatment
    cells resulting in food production and
    landscaping with no pollution of aquifers (??????)

7
Solar Toilet
8
4) Building with Natural Recycled Materials
  • Rammed-Earth encased in recycled rubber tires

9
Aluminum cans and Glass/ Plastic Bottles
10
5) Water Harvesting
  • Earthships catch water from the sky (rain snow
    melt). Water is heated from the sun, biodiesel
    and/or natural gas. Earthships can have city
    water as backup. Earthships do not pollute
    underground water aquifers.

11
(No Transcript)
12
(6) Food Production
13
advantages
  • Energy Efficiency --Earthships provide a large
    amount of thermal mass. This helps keep the house
    cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
  • Self-Sustainability -- The homes are designed to
    take advantage of natural resources.

14
advantages
  • "Buildability" --Earthships can be owner built.
  • Easy Availability --Not only are tires easy to
    get, some places will pay you to take them away!
    There are plenty of tires, bottles and aluminum
    cans around.

15
Disadvantages
  • Resellability - With any other alternative house
    building types, you might have a problem
    reselling a house that is "different" from the
    norm.
  • Building Permits - As with all alternative
    building methods, you might run into some
    problems with local building codes.

16
Disadvantages
  • Financing - Earthships are a very new concept in
    building design. Youu might have difficulty
    getting home loans.

17
  • http//www.earthship.ie/images.html
  • http//www.earthship.net/web/
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com