Eco-Building

Most areas in the world have cave systems that can be used for living in. It is not more expensive then building a regular community. The technology and equipments already exist. To build underground there is a simple way to do that, use rammed earth technology, it is based upon Adobe but, far stronger. Check it out on the net. Rammed earth homes underground where there are no suitable caves is something your group may wish to investigate. There are variations depending upon the earth that surrounds you.

The idea of mankind re-inhabiting caves is far too backward thinking for me, no matter ecologically sound that might be. We have other ideas.

Our 40 acre property is situated in the middle of a dry lake bed. The silt pack is 80 foot deep. One of our future programs is to excavate ten acres or so down to that depth and cover the top with translucent fiber glass geodesic dome. Apartments will be carved out of the 80 foot cliff faces with boulevards and garden spaces in between each section. All sewerage will be pumped to surface reservoirs for purification and recycling. The finished complex will create multi-level earth insulated accommodation and recreation for a large community, possibly an old age center, complete with its own medical facilities. Our building costs are projected to be 1% (yes ONE) of what it would cost in a city. Energy consumption will be one third that of a surface complex.

The recovered adobe will fire enough bricks to build a circular chimney city, 5000 feet high, one mile in circumference, employing atmospheric thermal energy technology (ATEC) to generate electricity and condense water vapor for consumption. It will accommodate forested parks, streams, waterfalls and tree-lined boulevards. Every penthouse home with its own greenhouse orchard and garden. (Definitely not to be seen in my life-time - but on the drawing boards anyway and good future focus for the kids. Oh yes, did I tell you that I was a megalomaniac?)