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Tiny Homes on the Water

Tiny Homes on the Water

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  • @BradMiller-s9e
    @BradMiller-s9e3 сағат бұрын

    Why aren't they utilizing units planted in the ground that condense water vapor in the air into liquid water in side the units vessles that are 4' under ground or more. Where the ground temperature is cool and causes the water vapor to condense like dew and collect in the vessles then it can be pumped via solar powered pumps to irrigate crops and orchards and so on. Using the 3 sisters crops growing technique and other Permacuture growing techniques, and utilizing all final wastewater for fertilizers and watering as well as the Unites I described as drip irrigation which is the best and most productive irrigation type to use in desert locations. 🏜. Even can utilize these techniques to create pastures and willow trees to build living organic fences that get stronger, bigger and more robust as they grow and also feed the livestock as well. It could even be possible to harvest enough extra water from the air to facilitate a pond or even a small lake that could also grow fish that feed on human wastes and serve as a reservoir that if built right could be used to create hydroelectric energy and by the same moving of thar water for energy production keep the water in the reservoir moving and oxygenated for aquatic life. The the fish could be harvested at several points throughout the year and feed the community as well as all the food/Oasis crops and fruits. It's just a matter of also harvesting these crops and fruits and putting it all to good healthy use. And storing can't be eaten before it spoils and rots. So, via canning and food dehydrating etc. Also, smoking meats and canning meats. And doing so all natural and organic and healthy. Seems like even a Vinyard could be possible. I would love to love in such a place as that. But, this is way way way to arid and hot and no shade anywhere. Needs more shade and comfortable and asthwticly pleasing out outdoor spaces. Yk

  • @Jpm463
    @Jpm4635 сағат бұрын

    2:28 this was when I realized Mike might not be telling the truth. And stoped watching out of principle. "I got injured, so I didn't have to go." Meaning the Vietnam draft. But then he says he got a degree in architecture. So if your in college you got legal deferment from the draft. I think it's more likely that Mike uses the racing> motorcycle >get injured >avoid draft, story to appeal to people that he needs money from. Probably works, wealthy boomers would eat that up.

  • @sylviohache3467
    @sylviohache346717 сағат бұрын

    Its an island...stop complaining about the US border stuff, if anything they are lucky everything is actualy easyer for them with a bridge to the US.

  • @debrablue
    @debrablue19 сағат бұрын

    ...& WHICH Party RUNS N.M.

  • @bubbabillybob-c7v
    @bubbabillybob-c7vКүн бұрын

    Nice, clean bags, material stacks, cans, bottles, metal and tires are not garbage. We don't need no stinken permits, hooking to the grid Nope, running open sewage on the ground Nope, endangering your kids Nope, on or building on somebody's else property Nope. Keep you snakes on your property and I'll mine my own business.😊😊😊

  • @EarthGeographicalRecon
    @EarthGeographicalReconКүн бұрын

    nice house bro

  • @EarthGeographicalRecon
    @EarthGeographicalRecon13 сағат бұрын

    we use our bath water to flush our poos away !

  • @CaaeyRusnak
    @CaaeyRusnakКүн бұрын

    The government trying to not let us be apart from its bullshit is bullshit

  • @user-mf9nm2rp2f
    @user-mf9nm2rp2f2 күн бұрын

    Le navi occupano molto terreno, vi abitano poche persone rispetto ai mq. dell'intorno. Problemi di smottamenti per nubifragi? Come isolare l'umidità, quali fondazioni hanno le navi. Le persone si muovono in macchina per comprare cibo? Baci

  • @Tear-The-Veil
    @Tear-The-Veil2 күн бұрын

    The fellow paying $450 a year for property taxes thinks he's free.

  • @kathri1006
    @kathri10062 күн бұрын

    Just wondering whether tires emit noxious gases in the heat? Bottles glass are better I feel. Or better recycling old solar panels along with new ones for emery, so they are not an environmental hazard.

  • @kathri1006
    @kathri10062 күн бұрын

    Flexibility in building codes need to be a campaign promise. They are Draconian at present, trying to control everyone. A range in doing things depending on situations will be the key.

  • @user-vp3ko3xm6p
    @user-vp3ko3xm6p2 күн бұрын

    druids originated in Scotland

  • @juliawitt3813
    @juliawitt38133 күн бұрын

    Too many ads spoiled this. I'm sure you didn't stay long in Findhorn

  • @Shadows_of_cities
    @Shadows_of_cities4 күн бұрын

    I miss trees. Some places in this video had no trees!?!

  • @adisaggi
    @adisaggi4 күн бұрын

    Only general information..please tell 1. How much money you have invested to build these shelters 2. How much electricity do you consume and how much you produce 3. It's easier to grow greens leafy vegetables..what about wheat, corn, oil, spices, etc. 4. Tyres are good for winter to harness heat..what about summers...also what are temperature ranges during summer.

  • @valeropellini7435
    @valeropellini74354 күн бұрын

    Poor guys! I feel for them! That is not life for me!

  • @alanlehman7629
    @alanlehman76294 күн бұрын

    HOW UTTERLY COOL AND WONDERFUL!

  • @pachychon
    @pachychon4 күн бұрын

    Seeing houses as an investment first and a home second is mad, americans are just built different.

  • @securethebag1613
    @securethebag16135 күн бұрын

    Is this make america great again?

  • @finchhawthorne1302
    @finchhawthorne13025 күн бұрын

    It’s really troubling to me how this video compliments what is obviously a cult. Legitimizing stuff like this will only lead to more victims.

  • @Mandontworkdonteat
    @Mandontworkdonteat5 күн бұрын

    🦉🦉🦉

  • @Mandontworkdonteat
    @Mandontworkdonteat5 күн бұрын

    1 billion $

  • @Tiffany-Rose
    @Tiffany-Rose5 күн бұрын

    Is anyone actually Scottish there? 🤔

  • @billn8555
    @billn85555 күн бұрын

    Good for him. Building and construction regulations is 100% the reason why housing costs so much. It's not about safety, its about money and power. The city/state regulate, tax, generate fees as a means to increase hidden taxes. Its disgusting what our bureaucrats have done to get more and more revenue. What do they spend that money on? Bigger government, higher personal wages, power, and control. If our government really wanted to help people they would allow anyone to build a house using standard plans for free. No soil tests, no water tests, no environmental impact, no flood reviews, fire dept reviews, sewer reviews, traffic reviews, inslulation reveiws, aesthetics reviews, fault line reviews.....etc. The cities already zoned areas that are un-buildable due to flooding, slopes, dangerous conditions, parks. Everything else is automatic green light to build using standard building plans.

  • @hipsu555
    @hipsu5556 күн бұрын

    I think the main problem is that a lot of different materials and waste are mixed together here and It's only temporary. If the building is demolished in a few decades, you'll have the waste problem again, only this time a lot of materials will be mixed together and it will be almost impossible to recycle them. For example, previously you could have easily recycled the tires before they were installed. Now everything is mixed together and the cost and effort to separate the waste into the individual materials would be immense.

  • @Oded_Lobel
    @Oded_Lobel6 күн бұрын

    A lot of the people I know would live like this in a hearbeat. It's so difficult to live so simply because of law and legistlation. You need a property ofc, but beyond that, that property needs to be aproved for construction of a stationary building. The building needs to also pass so many rules in order for it to be approved. Governments make it such a pain in the ass to live freely without dependancy of them.

  • @RoadRunner-FE
    @RoadRunner-FE6 күн бұрын

    no such thing as global warming. a... Earth is not a ball. b... When ice melts... it shrinks. So no land will be put under water unless you break all dams. c..... stop cutting every tree!

  • @austinl4915
    @austinl49156 күн бұрын

    Dude those houses must be SOLID. This architecture is pretty damn genius.

  • @jaym5938
    @jaym59386 күн бұрын

    I kinda wish the population of these spaces weren't so bougie/kooky. Love the sites, not so much the neighbors.

  • @litha1973
    @litha19737 күн бұрын

    This is where I want to live ❤

  • @Dan.Solo.Chicago
    @Dan.Solo.Chicago7 күн бұрын

    7:36 Loitering? He must be from the suburbs. 🤦‍♂️

  • @russellcolverson6916
    @russellcolverson69167 күн бұрын

    Can those houses really be moved ???

  • @RextheRebel
    @RextheRebel7 күн бұрын

    A bunch of hippies that hug trees create "paradise". And hilariously, its precisely because there is no diversity that it works.

  • @RandomsFandom
    @RandomsFandom7 күн бұрын

    Slab city

  • @RandomsFandom
    @RandomsFandom7 күн бұрын

    Check out slab city

  • @RandomsFandom
    @RandomsFandom7 күн бұрын

    Some of these are a bad wake away from scuttling

  • @wandalloyd2206
    @wandalloyd22068 күн бұрын

    Very interesting but SO uncomfortable to watch with the choppy presentation and constant changing images and fast talking. Real shame, couldn’t tolerate watching it 🙁 Have changed my mind about subscribing to this channel.

  • @drillsergeant5338
    @drillsergeant53388 күн бұрын

    Very sad, but it depicts our society as a whole and that is sad and deplorable. We have become a people with no purpose, no value and no vision for a real future. Just imagine if Benjamin Franklin and George Washington had lived here in their time.

  • @joeebear
    @joeebear9 күн бұрын

    @34 sec. “Nowhere else in America can you legally experiment with housing like this, according to New Mexico State law”. What does New Mexico State law know about other state laws? You can build any experimental house that you want to build in unregulated areas of all states in America. Getting home owners insurance on experimental houses is another issue. But the original statement @34 is absolutely wrong!

  • @JohnDoe-qc6rd
    @JohnDoe-qc6rd9 күн бұрын

    That ending was so unexpectedly hilarious If that was a scene in a movie, I'd just brush it off as not funny because that would never happen in real life

  • @MichaelrennieG
    @MichaelrennieG9 күн бұрын

    You know in the desert is much like being in the middle of ocean living in a sailboat with Solar and wind producing power to move from place to place utilizing that same power to live like home. Also storage devices improving like battery's , types of Inverters are improving in efficiency every day making possible to live anywhere in the world..

  • @isacferreira6804
    @isacferreira680410 күн бұрын

    i am architect and i am in wearthship, and prefrabricated etc, and i laf whem the women say "i do hayhuasca" i do also :D

  • @brendan3081
    @brendan308110 күн бұрын

    these homes that are worth 1.3 mil, does that mean thats how much he is charging to construct these or is that just how much they would be valued based on sq footage, lot size etc. They are awesome but the cost to entry seems too unobtainable

  • @flyingcat3170
    @flyingcat317010 күн бұрын

    isnt the wheels and all of that toxic in the walls?

  • @jaymaloney8321
    @jaymaloney832110 күн бұрын

    I spent a few days in one of these things down in Taos. The novelty of these things wears off pretty quickly. At night you will be living off battery power that's draining with each lightbulb and each TV hour. In the winter, the long nights become a significant energy budgeting issue. Add a few days of cloudiness and the energy drains quicker than its replenished. Visualize living in a high-end fallout shelter two weeks after the power grid went out of existence. No matter what the glowing PR tells you, in the summer these things can get very warm and humid, and they stay very warm and humid throughout the night. I also remember lots of spiders that had found their way into the thing. Your water supply is also a concern. It comes from big plastic cisterns that are filled by highly filtered runoff from the roof. In NM, rain comes suddenly in buckets or not at all for many days. You cannot plan on having water whenever you want it. If you go some time without precipitation, your water supply becomes worrisome until the next rain. Assuming that your roof is around 1,100 sf, an inch of rainfall will produce about 650 gallons of water, which is not all that much. Drought conditions are not unusual in NM. You can remain without rain for weeks and sometimes months. These things are also very expensive. A basic Earthship can run around $400-600K plus solar panels, batteries (not included), and so on. The bigger fancier ones, like they show in the video, you might need more than $1 million. I don't know the resale value of them, but it's a super-niche market. And, because they can be rather quirky in their feel as you see in the video, finding a new owner who will be enthralled with your personal taste will be a challenge. My recollection of the overall environment of the Taos Earthship colony in general was akin to my recollections of the firebases in Vietnam. Lots of "junk" such as old tires, soda bottles and cans, etc. Bottom line: Think before you swoon.

  • @edaindaimhin6009
    @edaindaimhin600912 күн бұрын

    It's a great place but the climate crisis is a fraud which will be used by government to drive us into a digital prison.

  • @overflow7276
    @overflow727612 күн бұрын

    Damn. All of those Earth Ships are really huge! Living in Europe, where living space is not that abundant, I wonder if there is a minimum building size necessary to achieve all the self-sustaining effects (like collecting enough water, heat, solarpower etc.) Does anybody have any data on this?

  • @FranklinNewhart
    @FranklinNewhart12 күн бұрын

    Sell out to Natives. A Native living here could care less about the border. To them it does not exist. Jay Treaty says we can travel back and forth and have dual citizenship with Canadian ID and American ID

  • @sinoverlord409
    @sinoverlord40912 күн бұрын

    I love the use of the Wilhelm scream at 5:21 😆

  • @sinoverlord409
    @sinoverlord40912 күн бұрын

    So in other parts of the country it's illegal to experiment on how to live off the grid? Unbelievable this country sucks.

  • @KaPoop-p6w
    @KaPoop-p6w12 күн бұрын

    Notice how it's only white people lol.

  • @RextheRebel
    @RextheRebel7 күн бұрын

    Exactly. Nothing Left wing ppl want can ever be possible outside a homogeneous, white society.

  • @mycreations318
    @mycreations31813 күн бұрын

    This place looks so beautiful… Almost like heaven❤