Same here. I want to build one of those Earthships, and mine Bitcoin with off-grid solar.
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Earthships are amazing, the whole reason I'm doing what I'm doing is because of my apprenticeship with Earthship in New Mexico back in 2011.
I was wondering if other Bitcoiners are into Earthships! They are amazing indeed. I am taking their online course now since I can't leave the fiat mine yet. Planning to go volunteer for a few builds this summer and when Bitcoin hits a certain level, build one for myself.
Man, I haven't really paid attention to what they have going on over there in years. I'm sure the online course will help a ton. In the meantime, I would recommend finding some projects to use pounded tires. Learning the technique of pounding tires is something that takes lots of practice in my experience. I use pounded tires for as much as I can around the homestead so I can avoid having to relearn my technique when I finally start building dwellings. I'm also interested in the Paul Wheaton Wofati concept, because I have lots of access to timber.
Earthships are amazing. Have you seen https://www.geoship.is/ some beautiful designs.
Interesting that they use some secret bio ceramic material. Otherwise, it's just geodesic domes. One thing I love about earthships is the open source-ness, and the focus on using local materials along side simplistic building techniques.
Yeah, the two guys developed it themselves, so good for them. Neither of them were material scientist is the cool part. I do like the openness and community of the earthships better as well. I was just blown away at some of the designs these people were doing... and I love geodesic domes!
Both the domes and earthships are solving the same problem while accessing most different markets. This is a great example of how there are many ways to do a thing but no best way, only different ways with tradeoffs.