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RE: Our Earthship Build - 2007/08/09
That's one heck of an impressive build! So cool to see it all explained here. Isn't it great how we can look back at stressful times and laugh? That must have been a crazy amount of work just moving all those tires, I can relate a little by having hauled 3 cords of wood by hand up an incline. And I've volunteered to help build an earthship, so I understand what it's like to pound those tires!
Those cisterns are huge, how many gallons do they hold? And wow I'm really impressed at the buildings ability to regulate temperature. Super cool to see the progression pictures! Amazing what you guys have accomplished!! I am in awe! :O
Our cisterns hold 2000 gallons each for a total of 4000 gallons / 15,000 liters of water. Yes, looking back at all the blood, sweat and tears (literally), it is nice to reminisce, laugh and joke around about how crazy we were to do all that. We survived, thrived and learned a LOT in the process.
Where was this build that you shared the picture of?
That's a whole lot of water! I imagine that much lasts you roughly a year? I just have a 300 gallon IBC tote that lasts me a few weeks - a month. It was in the Okanagan BC just outside of Penticton. The people who put it together were trying to develop a course for the college to do it professionally like as a job which is pretty cool!