Interested in Earthships? We visited the Earthship Brighton and took 130+ pix

[esaruoho]

Hi, me and my GF visited the Earthship Brighton recently and took ~350 pictures - after culling out the blurred or duplicate images or otherwise useless images, I present to you a link to my flickr page (which also has my visits to the Viktor Schauberger Museum and the Nikola Tesla Museum.. and the Steorn Waterways Demonstration of Orbo tech (from 2010, 2010 and 2009 (in case of Steorn)) in addition to other imagery which you might find of use if you are into Walter Russell at all..)

Anyway, any thoughts?

Earthship Brighton visit (9th April 2015), Stanmer Park, Falmer, Brighton, England

What I can say is that nobody lives in this demonstration house, and that the batteries have stopped working (the tour guide didn't know if because of sulfation (not sure if the right term?) or because of being charged poorly). + I couldn't have a taste of their filtered/purified water because none of the devices in the earthship worked anymore. What a shame.

Yours, Esa

[Jeff Pearson]

I am building one. I worked for them for 5 years. Working out of pocket so didnt get anything done last year. Hope to revive my thread soon. They like to be lived in. Vents opened and closed , water used...etc... It's a shame they let the systems degrade there. We have temps ranging from -20 to100F here and last three I worked on for Solar Survival stayed 70 to 72 in the living space no supplemental heating or cooling.

[SkyWatcher]

Hi esaruoho, awesome, thanks for sharing.
I would love to build and live in an earthship.
I even payed tribute to earthships, in a jump on my icyjump map.
If you would like to share knowledge of how the earthship maintains its comfortable average temperatures in different climates, i would be interested to hear, as i'm sure others would.
I assume it uses the two glassed walls to create the greenhouse heating in the rear rooms by heating the compacted dirt in tires as thermal mass and maybe the flooring stone type, stores heat also.
I haven't read much about how Michael Reynolds cooled the earthship in hot periods and climates.
peace love light
Here is a pic of the icyjump and the earthship down below at the start, the player spawns inside the earthship, then goes through the growing area and out through doors.

[Jeff Pearson]

Ridiculous amount of thermal mass with lots of insulation maintains stable temperature. As for cooling, some of them have "cool" tubes buried in the berm. So if you open the cool tube vent and the skylight you get cool air coming in powered by convection. It's mostly the slope glass earthship that needs help cooling. The vertical glass ones and the double greenhouse ones are generally fine with just ventilation.