Bob Ackley wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

 BA>> The way to go is an underground house; no drafts, with good
 BA>> insulation and at least five feet of dirt on top the heating and
 BA>> cooling costs are nil. 

 RW> I've always thought so too.  Had I the land that's the way I'd go.

BA> I've got the land, altho' I'd rather have a steeper hillside.  The
BA> ideal place for
BA> me is on the quarter section immediately north of me.  There's a
BA> bowl toward the southern end that has about an acre of flat ground
BA> at the bottom, a creek flows
BA> out of it to the south (and passes about 150 yards east of my place
BA> on its way to
BA> wherever).  It'd be a piece of cake to build an underground house
BA> into one of the
BA> sides of the bowl, and have an acre or so of yard.  Nobody'd know
BA> the house was there (FTM if it was an ordinary house nobody'd know
BA> either unless they flew over it, that bowl can't be seen from the
BA> road).

Sounds perfect for something like this.  MIne they'd be able to tell anyway
due to a radio antenna tower and masts. Still, easy to cool, easy to heat.
THat and enough land to graze a horse or two, one for riding, one for
packing. ONly time I'd need to burn fuel for transport would be for
business . SInce my power needs for the ham station would be
modest I could probably operate most times with solar panels and storage
batteries .



Regards,
           Richard
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