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Yeah actually I've always thought that was a good idea. Looks like a nice design and in the desert you'll tend to have a good steady wind source for your single-lightbulb-charging windmill and the solar panels that run a toaster will get plenty of sun.

I have no problem with this kind of idea though, its a neat idea. The only real reason they haven't taken off is that people like windows and they do, as Sam point out, cost quite a bit to build.

Even though they're not quite as energy efficient as underground homes, earth-sheltered homes present an excellent compromise between underground construction and normal stick-built construction. No need to dig a hole, which in areas where bedrock is close to the surface could double the cost of a home. Plus you don't have loads of windows and you don't have the cost of finishing the whole exterior of the home, just the parts that show.

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Posted by jimb123

2009-10-15 15:53:55

If you read the site these were engineered by the pioneers of the geo-domes. But because of the difficulty of building one from wood decided to try concrete and the rest is history.

A house in Florida has survived, unscathed, several big hurricanes, Bill, may have been one. It was built on the same base principles.

There's a atory about one built in OK, by a caouple, whose sibling had a stickbuilt right across the street. Tornado blew through, knocked down the stick built of course, hit the dome head on and only knocked out a window with debris.