Rudy,  You live in a converted church where they kept HOGS??????  What
religion was THAT????  Ruth



At 12:05 PM -0500 12/9/07, Rudy Christian wrote:
>Leland,
>
>There are several things about this house that don't match the standard
>patterns. For cooling in summer and heat storage in the winter the basement
>floor slab is poured over a sand bed with an air tube system based on
>research done at ATI in Wooster. The sytem was designed to semi-passively
>cool sows by circulating air through tubes buried in the barn yard and then
>through the air tubes in the floor slabs of the swine houses. It elimated
>the need for filtration and keeps the sows cool enough to stay fertile. Our
>sytem is deigned to pull air down an extra air duct built into the central
>chimney from the highest point in the house. It also allows us to use an air
>filter element in the duct.
>
>The water in the house is collected off the roof (as soon as the trim is
>finished) and stored in a cistern. It's purified with ultraviolet light and
>filtered through a turbidity filter for clarity, After it is used, the
>sewage line takes to to standard septic tank that feeds into our constructed
>wetlands which is sealed on the bottom so the water is forced back into the
>sky through evaporation and evapotranspiration. When completed no water will
>come out of the ground water or go back into it. Basically zero impact as
>far as water goes.
>
>Enjoying something a little differrent at the center of the universe,
>
>Rudy
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Ruth Barton
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