“I have recently been in correspondence with an Iranian researcher, Mostafa Aref haghi, who has chronicled a tradition in Iran of building adobe windmills. At first I thought that it was virtually impossible to build a windmill using adobe. But then as I studied the material that he sent I came to realize that yes, indeed, it is possible to build a windmill using adobe!
Here’s another potential alternative energy source that sounds really amazing. Joule Unlimited Technologies has received the 2011 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the Energy category and was also named the Silver award winner across all of the competition’s 16 categories, from more than 600 entries around the globe. “We are honored to be … Read more
Follow me for just a moment as I try to explain how everything we really need is right before us – often in abundance – if we choose to look carefully. I’ll limit this discussion to homebuilding, but the same is true with friendships, love, joy, etc. I’ll start this train of thought with subsoil … Read more
Let’s take a quick break from earthbag building and look at an interesting source of clean, renewable energy that advocates say is virtually unlimited and available all over the world. Most readers are probably aware of geothermal power stations (industrial systems located at geothermal hot spots) and geothermal heat pumps that capture heat from the … Read more