Sunday, February 28, 2010

Earth ships

Hi I just learned a very neat way of saving energy by living in a "recycled" house called an earth ship. I will tell you how it works. The walls are made of recucled pop cans and recycled tires and then they cover it with concrete so the walls are very thick and insilated to keep warm on cold winter nights. Earth ships are usually located on hills and very close to a main city. The windows in earth ships are solar panals and that's how they collect electricity and they store the elctricity in batteries. The water system is so interesting, they have a well and when it rains or snows the water goes into the well and they filture the water and put it into sinks and showers and then the dirtier water goes to plants inside the house and the really dirty water from the plants go into the toilet and once it's gone to the toilet the water goes to the septic tank and the system starts again. To keep the earth ship warm they're special blinds that keep all the warm air in and the walls are very thick also. To keep the earth ship cold they dig 8ft in the ground and the soil is cold there so they get a tube and they transport the cold air inside the house and keeps the house cool and it gets very hot in the earthship because there are lots of windows. The earthship dosn't have any microwaves or hairdryers. earthships are so modern and very pretty.

if you have any questions please comment.

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