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[Cob] cob greenhouse and Washington, DCdealy at deatech.com dealy at deatech.comMon Mar 5 21:16:28 CST 2007
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 raduazo at aol.com wrote: [snip] > I picked up a copy of âThe Tire House Bookâ by Ed Paschich and Paula > Hendricks and note that the Earthship structures are made with concrete > foundations. This seems crazy to me since cob and adobe structures are > often built on rubble trench foundations. This would negate our reason > for using tires. [snip] I don't believe this is how earthships are normally done, check Michaels Reynold's books, he is the architect who originally created the earthship / tire house concept. I would check, but my copy is about 8,000 miles away and my arms won't reach that far :-) Shannon C. Dealy | DeaTech Research Inc. dealy at deatech.com | - Custom Software Development - | Embedded Systems, Real-time, Device Drivers Phone: (800) 467-5820 | Networking, Scientific & Engineering Applications or: (541) 929-4089 | www.deatech.com
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