Free food

Free food is a hard one since you have to take care of plants for them to grow right.

Ask someone a trick question sometime. "Where does food come from?" If they answer, "from farms and the earth and gardens" say "What, No food comes from the stoooore, jease it's a simple question." and answer the opposite way if they answer the opposite.

If you had a hydroponics garden in a green house you wouldn't have to worry about weeds or cold or bugs or animals or most disease. So a lot less work to do and bigger harvests.

Indoor pots may work just as good though.

Have a covered open air eating area next to the greenhouse for eating fresh food with no fridge.

Fruits
Vegetables
Gathered nuts
Dried meat
Water

Imported stuff: Soda, ice, milk, cheese, chocolate, honey, butter, ice cream, bread, mayonaise, ketchup, hamburger, hot dog,

Free heating and cooling

Unneeded since you have a highly thermally insulated adobe structure.

Free energy

We don't need to find new sources of energy, what we need to make is new devices that use no energy. IBM said that in 5 years we will have cell phones with extremely small processors and also low energy consumption material which will not need charging but will instead be charged by motion in the same way wrist watches are.

Wrist watches can use no energy. But we had those 500 years ago with scientific sundials(just a piece of wood and string) that can tell direction, time, day of month, wind direction, and do the same at night time also.

We don't need cars and roads and gasolene if we use flying vehicle like hang gliders and paragliders. They use wind power just like birds do and even if you did have a motor you wouldn't need a big one.

Do we need TV? Do we need computers? Do we need video games? Do we need washing machines? Do we need dryers? Can we heat water on a wood stove, or with the sun? Do we need AC? Do we need phone lines? Do we even need wires in our house at all?

Things that use no electricity:
Bucket/water/plunger/clothes/soap
wind up light
oil lamp
clothes line
solar heating
wood stove
Good insulation
Winding watch
Sundial
Solar powered flashlight
Solar powered power source for cell phone
books
traveling by hiking, bike, paraglider, sail boat,
making stuff or gardening or talking for entertainment.
Low power laptops powered by solar panels for internet phone and TV/movies/games
Wind powered turbine on kite for lights

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The only free energy I know of so far or at least cheap energy is lasers. They have spontaneaous emission and can provide more energy than anything else.

They're also doing fusion tests this year at NIF.

But for us regular joe's we have to use wood for heat and oil lamps for light. Or wind up flashlights.

Solar panels can keep ultra-capacitors topped off for use in the house during the day but they may lose lots of energy throughout the night. This can run lights easily.

Free Housing

Once you build it it lasts forever.

Cheap and easy to build.

New adobe material, and house design:
So I'm excited again about building a house for cheap. I was thinking about making a house out of adobe or clay and then firing it to harden and be water proof but that would require a lot of energy and may not even work but then I hit upon the rubbery adobe idea again that I heard from the project serpo story a long time ago, and put it together and will now try and test a mixture of 2 parts sand 1 part clay and mix in some polyurethane or silicone into the mix instead of water to make it wet and plyable and then when it dries it will be like cement. This way it's not as expensive and ugly and soft and prone to fire as polyurethane foam.

I don't know what to call this material but it would be along the lines of pycrete, or plywood or other recently invented materials.

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The main point of all of this is to build a house structure that is water proof, sound proof, fire proof, and the same shape as a bomb shelter, and for even more insulation put more dirt on top. Even adobe kilns are actually defined as being extremely insulated temperature controlled structures, and they're made out of adobe. So adobe is still the best insulator ever discovered.

Because it's so well insulated you will never need to heat it or cool it if the walls are thick enough.

It wouldn't need a door as long as you built the entrance in a way that water didn't get in. But you might want a net to keep bugs out, or use smudging to keep them out.

The structure itself would not have anything built in. This house is just shaped adobe, nothing built in except maybe a skylight and way for breeze to get in. No toilet, no electricity, no lighting, no appliances. These would all be added later as needed.

The house is parted into 4 section with removable walls. One is bathroom, one is kitchen, one is bedroom, one is living room.

Kitchen: Only has a counter and table and food storage, all dried food or fresh.

Bathroom: a small room with a bucket with lid and a seat. The waste is burned or buried.

Bedroom: has bed

Living room: Has seats and entertainment.

Way of life 5

Alaska house, or Self sustained lifestyle

If you live in Alaska for half the year then you’ll be saving 6 months worth of expenses by living off the land as long as you have a home business. Also by building a cabin in Alaska totally from scratch you can sell it and live off of money from that like a job. Or just save it and make another cabin. Also poor family members might like the idea.
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House: Cabin made out of logs on a 5 acre piece of land in alaska. See alone in the wilderness video. And alaskaantlerworks.com

Food: Fresh caught fish that are smoked or eaten fresh and any other animal you can shoot or trap.

Water: Rain catch, or river, or boil from any source

Heating: Woodstove,

Lighting: Candle or crank led, tree sap lamp, oil lamp,

Shower: Rag and soapy water

Toilet: Outhouse, tp, tree leaves

Travel transportation: RV, or Paraglider(doesn't need gas), or ultralight, canoe made out of tree

Fridge: Under ground or dried or smoked or canned or fresh

Communication: Walkie talkie, or for $70/mo have internet phone and solar charger

Entertainment: Books, hand held games, fishing, hiking

Clothes: Store bought as needed, or make own from animal hide

Bugs: Smudge the house

Trash/electric/medical: None

Tools: File, Good rip saw, Axe, Adze, Draw knife, Chisels(flat bladed, curved blade), Mallet, big compass(for measurement), tape measure(or string on a stick), plum and bob, pencil, knife
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With this self sustained life style you will be able to survive anything such as a coronal mass ejection pointed toward the earth. This lifestyle is what survival experts support and is also good for the environment. Also you may become financially free doing this and not feel bored all the time. $100,000 can making anyone totally debt free and on the way to becoming rich and wealthy and making one cabin is potentially worth $30,000

Also it's healthy for you eating fresh fruits and vegetables and fish and exercising by collecting firewood and gardening among other things, have all been shown to extend life expectancy.

Way of life 6

Stone House/Wood Roof : There you go!

It's as simple as that. It's not that complicated.

If you want a house for free that requires almost no skill to make and will last forever and won't even burn down. Then this is for all of the slaves out there that are working for their CEO, who need to be their own boss for a change. This could be the start of a new life.

The Ancient Inca Empire never even had mortar or cement, all they had was adobe to put between the stones, and their structures are still standing!

Stone house: Just have a quarry and a hammer and chisel and break off some rock and build a structure. With home made adobe in between or spend a couple of bucks on some mortar. Build in a fire place or a window and you'll have everything needed to live in. Also make it an A-shaped house for the roof. Anywhere you live if you dig deep enough you will find bedrock.

Adobe: Make your own adobe out of a mud pit where you mix a slurry of dirt and let it dry up for a day and the sand will be at the bottom and the clay will be at the top. Then mix in the 33/66 ration of adobe. You now have your own mortar

Wood Roof: All you need for a roof is something water proof and wind proof. You could have it even made of grass. If the grass was thick enough no water would penetrate. But if you want modern technology just shingle some polyethylene/polypropylene/just any plastic sheets and nail the edges to a roof made of wood poles. Or if you're handy you can even melt the plastic sheets together with plastic weld found at any auto parts store.

Amenities: Add any amenities you want like an air conditioner in the window and a gas powered electric generator, or solar panels for low wattage applications. You can also build an out house that's just a hole in the ground. And as long as you cover it up with dirt it won't stink.
Also every one needs a car, so get one and make sure it keeps running. And have a snow mobile if you are in Alaska.

Cooking: Is a very good skill to have if your self reliant. Even just trial and error works and if you cook enough you'll finally learn to do it well. Catch fish with a fishing boat, or hunt animals or birds with a gun. And grow your own fruits and vegetables.

Free time: Go on all of the vacations you want, with all of the newly acquired free time on your hands. Also just think of how big of a house you could build working 8 hours a day like at any other job. You could get into the business of building log/stone cabins in Alaska and then selling them to snow birds who are retired or want a second home or just rent it out for a vacation as a lease with option to buy.

Forget cable and internet. Why do you need those? Anyways all cable programs are reruns, and I know because I got rid of cable a year ago and still see the same exact shows on my dad's tv and thousands of channels with nothing on. As for internet have you noticed all of the commercials on youtube now and ads everywhere on the internet. It's only a matter of time until every site is a pay site plus the ads. The internet soon won't even be worth going on anymore.

Financial reasons: If you bought all of this stuff from home depot you'd never be able to pay for it all. Which is why houses cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or a rent of 500$/mo and up. I'd rather save all of that money and start a farm and make money off of fresh produce that is better quality and better prices than the stores. And sell it all at a fruit stand on the side of the road. Even if it's seasonal and just a summer job, it would probably pay better than the 800$/mo job at Walmart. If you factored in money saved on rent then you'd only have to make 300$/mo to break even. Oh yeah and don't worry about the benefits like insurance, or being full time because all businesses are getting rid of all of that very soon, and some already have.

How to build your own coral castle

Why build a coral castle?

• Short of creating a lava house, natural stone has a stronger chemical bond than cement or even brick or any other artifical stone. Therefore it is a stronger building material and will last longer, and be more structural.
• Instead of paying for bricks or cement why not get a better building material that is also free. Natural quarried stone on the property. Building a house entirely from sweat equity, instead of needing investment capital and a 30 year loan.
• It will last forever and be a tourist attraction while you live and after you die. And the proceeds can go to charity.
• The house will stay cold in the summer and hot in the winter from the thick heat retentive stone walls.
  
• You can build the structure in such a way to promote natural airflow by having a chimney on top that forces air upward when the wind blows, by use of Bernoulli's principle(fast moving air has lower air pressure).

How to construct a stone castle:

There are many ways to accomplish this, but the root of it all is weight and leverage as Ed Leedskalnin always said. So instead of hauling one bag of cement at a time to build a giant wall of cement you would just move a huge stone wall all at once, but only inches at a time. like Archimedes said "give me a lever long enough and I can move the world".

I have several theories about moving large stones using leverage. One is to have a big "T" shaped crane with a pully chain over the top from one side to the other. On one side you have the stone to be lifted and on the other side you have the counterweight. With a pully system the counterweight is minimal, but it would theoretically work with out pullies even. This crane could move the blocks up and down within 360 degrees of its reach.

Another method is to make the block into a wheel then prop it up and roll it. To make it into a wheel, mark it's center of gravity by balancing the stone on a small rock. See Wally Wallington's experiments into this. You drill a hole into this center of gravity and another hole along the outside of the stone and place a steel pipe in the shape of an "h" in both holes this is the axle and locks the pipe to the stone. To prop up the stone use the Wallington method of putting planks undernieth the stone but to rock it side to side you use a ratchet tie down of industrial strength(high breaking weight) and high leverage. Or just a strong cable and a truckers hitch(also see video for an alternate method). Now if you prop up the stone onto 2 mobile segmented platforms on either side of the stone, then you can roll the blocks along the platform to anywhere you want it, moving the segments at the back of the platform to the front of the platform.

Another way to roll sturdy stones is to put a cable under it then over the top, both ends leading to your position. Then have one end bolted to the ground and the other end as a pully system. This way as you pulled the rope it would roll the stone in the direction intended. But it would also fall on its flat side a lot as it rolled, so it would need to be strong rock. This is a good method of moving long rectangular stones, if you have 2 cables around the stone. A side effect of this method may turn out to be that the heavier stones just slide along the cable and never actually flip over.

But I theorize that for the heavy stones Ed Leedskalnin made "A"-frame legs in a circle around the 30 ton block, protruding out of the rock, and sort of rolled the block on its extended A-frame legs, with a pully system pulling the top of the block to get it rolling slowly. A lever from the center to the top of the block is what the pully would be pulling.

How to cut the rock:

I prefer the simpler method of getting a concrete saw with a diamond faced carbide tip blade and then maybe stone splitting wedges and shims for large blocks. And the machine would be powered by a portable gas powered electric generator. Later as you assemble the rocks you will want to assemble them in the same positions that they were originally cut from the stone. This is how the stones at Machu Picchu were so perfectly aligned so that you're not able to get a piece of paper between them. Because they were assembled in the same orientation that they were quarried.

The roof:

I think based on a show about Machu Picchu that the roofs there were made of wood because all of the roofs are missing pointing to decomposed organic wood roofs. Also the Machu Picchu buildings had "A" shaped walls meaning they had wood beams spanning the roofs. But I don't know how they made it water proof. The good thing about Machu Picchu though is that lots of the stones were small, so you can still make large structures out of small stones.

Windows:

Have a rock beam along the top of the window to hold any rocks above the window. The windows at Machu Picchu were small. You can also make shelving on the inside of the structures walls in this same way with a wall behind the window.

Stone house

This is what a perfect world would look like.

A house made out of stone, with air flow built in. Like Stonehenge.

An energy machine that can make energy anywhere and never break.

A community food machine that can pump out cookies or something from ingredients.

A water machine in every home that condenses water from the air, with a faucet attached.

A mode of conveyance that uses infinite energy tech, to fly anywhere.

New house production method

This is a method for a structure anywhere where there is dirt.

First dig an under ground chamber, then gather clay from that dirt by separating clay and sand by mixing dirt with water, in a pit, until a mud slurry and then leaving to dry for the smallest clay particles to settle on the top.

Then on the interior of this underground chamber, you will put one solid unbroken strand of steel wool along the walls of the chamber. This may be done in sections. Then you will put a layer of clay over the steel wool.

Now hook up a high amperage power source like a car battery to both ends of the steel wool making sure that none of the steel wool is exposed to air, therefore not oxidizing and burning away.

And the final product of this is a ceramic wall that is water proof and structural. The more energy going through the wires the hotter the wires will get.

An alternative method of doing the same thing is put lots and lots of already burning hot coals into the underground chamber and then sealing in all of the heat by sealing off the chamber. The more coals put in, and the smaller the chamber, the hotter the temperature will get and the better the clay will turn into ceramic.

What is a house worth?

I was thinking about how we will all be working for the rest of our lives to pay for the monthly bill of rent or mortgage just to have simple shelter. So then I wondered, what are we really paying for?
And using a house boat as a reference, you can get an idea of what that monthly bill is actually paying for.
If you bought a large 2br 2 ba. houseboat, and then bought an equally sized house. The differences are:

1. The land is free on a boat, because nobody wants water, but the land on a house is expensive because of supply and demand.
2. The boat depreciates with age while a house appreciates over time.
3. The boat requires maintenance but no less than a house.
4. The taxes are less on a boat(half that of a car).
5. There is skilled labor involved in constructing a house or a boat, but boats loose that value while houses add that value.

So in the end you are paying for exclusive rights to a particular 3-dimensional space when living on land, and so you are paying mostly just to exist in a high demand area, because otherwise the houses material value, and skilled labor value, would depreciate in the same way that boats do.

So if you're smart you should construct your own house using free or self bought materials, in an area where there is high supply and no demand for the land(water or mountains or cold). And also go to where you don't have to pay taxes and live under building codes(Alaska or water or in a landlocked/unvisited area). You can make a house better than code easier anyway. This way you won't get stuck paying that 800$ monthly bill for the rest of your life, like the rest of us, and instead spend that money on actual products and services instead of paying forever for the imaginary worth of 3-d space.

Why not work for yourself 8 hours a day building your own house, instead of working to pay the bank that actually owns your house.

New house design for 2009

My current most well thought out simplest house is a cave house. I've come to this conclusion for the following reasons:

1. We can! We are the only species on earth capable of making their own cave out of rock.
2. Our planet has been around for a long time, and that naturally gives our planet lots of mountain ranges that have formed over eons, so lots of places to make cave houses.
3. High supply, and low demand means mountainous terrain is CHEAP!
   
4. There is no need for air conditioning, AT ALL, EVER AGAIN, even if it's solid state and never needs repair, or energy to run.
5. Once you build it, this house will be there for eternity. Site: Cave paintings.
6. We have the tools necessary like homemade explosive charges and electric blast cord, and hammer and chisel and jackhammer, and generators to power it, and pick axe, and some rocks are easy to chisel out.
7. The only fire possible is from the contents of the house.
8. It's weather proof other than water leaking from fissures(just use silicone).
   
9. There is constant wind power right outside the door, because along the sides of cliffs and buildings there is a natural chimney effect(Bernoulli's principle) as air flows across the top of a cliff or building, air will travel up the sides from the bottom.
10. You'll have the biggest house around(mountain sized).
    

My last house design was "New technology in a futuristic cabin".

Phone, Internet, and TV: "wireless broadband mobile internet". If you can get cellphone reception where you are. Also see my free cable post. And have a Google android for house phone, if it can connect to the wifi of the mobile internet, and a go phone for emergencies.
Food: Be on a south facing part of the mountain, and grow food nearby, or collect from the forest. and have a road to a nearby town also.
Dishes: Make pottery from self separated clay, which you get from the way you make adobe, and fire them in a self made oven/kiln. Making adobe: First you dig a hole, then you fill it with water, then you fill the hole back in with dirt, and then mix it up. What you will end up with once the hole dries up in 1 day, is clay that has settled at the top and sand that has settled at the bottom of the hole. Now you just skim the clay off of the top, and mix it with sand in the proper portions to make adobe. This is useful for a structural and heat retentive component of a house. You can also include hay mixed in with it, acting as a binding material so it won't crack, for structural adobe. Adobe is also useful when making a rocket stove.
Lighting, Cooking, Heating, Fridge, Transportation: All electric and solid state.
Toilet, Shower,Clothes washing: Toilet is the outdoors (bury it for no smell, also test a post hole digger). Shower the same way as Alaskans, a rag and bucket of soapy water. Bucket of soapy water and plunger for clothes.
Electric: Wind power enough to fill the batteries. Or just solar power.
Income: A home business of some kind like as seen in my home business post, so that you won't have to commute to work.
Road access: Build your own dirt gravel road out of the chips left over from excavation.
Excavating: Use a pick axe for soft rock and osmocote and chemical fertilizer for hard rock. Video

This would be one of the most fun houses ever also because first of all you'd be living like the Flintstones and it would be just like when you used to build forts as a kid however precarious they were. Start out with just a cave and whenever you feel you're lacking anything, just add a new amenity to make yourself more comfortable, with all the spare time you have from not working 8 hours a day to pay a mortgage.

Instant Roof

I just posted this on whynot.net

Have a factory that produces a solid sheet of 1/2 to 1/4 inch thick plastic that is 20 foot wide and cut at intervals to be a length of about 50 feet or whatever. But the general idea is that you roll up the finished product to transport it to a building site and then at the building site you just unroll it and put it on top of the house, as well as attach it in whatever way works best. This roof will last forever because it's plastic and may not blow away in the wind if it's thick and heavy plastic. It could be an arched roof or an A shaped roof. An arched roof may just be easier because it's the natural shape left over from being rolled up. Also for natural lighting just cut out a hole of any shape in the roof, and put a frosted translucent plastic window over that hole, for easy energy savings during the day.
The plastic to make the roof sheet out of could be recycled and any color. In the same way that they make imitation wood planks out of recycled plastic. Also this kind of roof would be a good insulator already because it is made of plastic, but an alternative may be to make it out of rubber. And you could always just spray foam the underside of the roof.

R - Value In Alaska

The wiki page I got this info from was"R-Value (insulation)" which is otherwise called heat resistivity. Not to be confused with U-Value which is otherwise called heat retention.

The best spray foam is Closed cell polyurethane spray foam. And a close 2nd is open cell polyurethane spray foam. These are all better than wood as an insulator

The following R-values are average per inch, based on available results:

Straw Bales: R-1.45
Wood Panels: R-2.5
Open Cell Polyurethane Spray Foam: R-3.6
Closed Cell Polyurethane Spray Foam: R-5.5
Silica Aerogel: R-10 (Best possible insulation for a window material. Hope it's available someday on the mass market.)

So if living in Alaska it would be wise to spend a tiny bit more to use spray foam in your cabin instead of wood. Spray foam is also easier to work with and can be sprayed onto a geodesic dome, with shingled plastic for water proofing utilizing "grip clips". The floor of cabins in Alaska are often dirt floors, but before installing any type of floor, just prevent flooding of a that floor in the geodesic dome, by halfway burying a solid water barrier material sheet around the perimeter of the dome.

You could also add heat retention(A.K.A. U-Value) to the already well insulated structure by putting moss or dirt on top of the geodesic dome. This is free, and only adds to the insulation quality, and also the natural woodsy look. But just spray foam or air foam should be enough insulation. And fire proof it all with a stucco coating.

Most cabins in Alaska are very small also because of the hassle of collecting more wood to heat bigger sized cabins. So a small one room cabin is normal in Alaska which means the cost of spray foam would be minimal, from such a small surface area to be insulated. Just be sure to make a sturdy geodesic dome out of hardwood(bamboo?) or metal bars so that the house can't collapse ever.

But there's nothing stopping you from making the same type of house in Florida with a total construction cost of about 300$. In other words anything that they do in Alaska to live independently can also be done anywhere else in the U.S.. But you would have to consider an outhouse and how to clean clothes. I discuss all of these considerations in my post called "permanent fort or camp". Also other posts are useful in constructing an independent homestead like the artificial aquifer post, and also earlier posts like the utopia now post, for info on an ideal community(Which is not possible). Or my old version of an independent homestead was the utopia list post, for more personal independence ideas, however outdated they are. But for diagrams of devices go to "New house design pics".

Permanent Fortification, or Camp, or Shelter

Or to be more accurate, a structure that can instantly be assembled, and instantly disassembled, and is a shelter that lasts indefinitely, and in which all modern conveniences can be included, and can be built in any climate.

What is needed is a geodesic dome, some kind of thin plastic material to be shingled with the use of "grip clips", and then dirt is put on top of that, for heat retention, and to keep the plastic from creating a greenhouse inside.

Geodesic dome: The most primitive version is to use sticks, of exactly the same length that have the ends carved flat with a knife, and then a hole is drilled into the flat end. Then they are assembled with standard nuts and bolts at the intersections.
The second better way of construction is just substituting metal electrical conduit for the sticks. The ends are flattened with a hammer and then a hole is drilled into the flattened part. Then connect them with standard nuts and bolts. This should only cost around 50$, if you already have tools. See: This video.

Thin plastic material: The most primitive version is standard garbage bags. The thicker the bag, the better, so that it will support heavy dirt. These are shingled onto the geodesic dome with "Grip clips".
The other material that may be used is ordinary camping tarps, of any color or type.

Mound of dirt: First you need a piece of land. Then you pile dirt over the geodesic dome, if you live in an environment that has dirt. If you were to put a layer of foliage over top of the dirt, or plant living plants(Such as moss or grass) into the mound of dirt then you wouldn’t have the problem of erosion of the mound. If that does become a problem.

Theoretically this camp can be constructed in less than a day. And has a wide range of environments that it can be adapted to. Such as in temperate climates you wouldn’t need a mound of dirt, but instead the plastic layer would act as a greenhouse. Or in extremely cold climates you would have the dirt on top of one geodesic dome, and then you would have a second geodesic dome and plastic over top of everything, to act as a greenhouse that would also store heat during the night.
And if you don’t like cold or hot climates then migrate south for the winter every year, to your second property.

Modern Conveniences: First you need a solar panel and a battery and an inverter. Watts= Amps(x) Volts. With the money saved on rent or a mortgage you can buy at least 500$/mo of new modern conveniences every month.
Warmth: An electric space heater.
Air conditioning: Wear a wet shirt, when it's windy it's like being in a fridge. Or have a thermo electric "solid state" air conditioner(Solar panels are the key to marketing this device, because solid state is less efficient that standard mechanical AC).
Furniture: Foldable or inflatable furniture.
Food: Either live off the land, or go to the store.
Refrigeration: A "solid state" portable cooler, that is solar powered. And it makes its own ice that lasts through the night. Or just have backup stored solar power. Or an ice box with a tank of water next to it that is frozen with the thermo electric effect during the day and melts during the night(Yet to be invented, because no market for it yet). Which would mean no need for a battery to store daytime energy that would be used to run the fridge at night.
Clothes washing: Either have synthetic water proof clothing(100%nylon/acrylic) that you wash with alcohol and lemon soaked rags. Or a bucket of soapy water and a clean plunger to agitate cotton clothes with.
Shower: Soapy water, and a rag, and shampoo.
Entertainment: Depends on you tastes. Have satellite internet on a laptop (AT&T laptop connect card), and watch shows on their network site. Have DVD’s on laptop. Have video game ROMS and emulators all on 1 flash memory card, and a USB controller(10$new, or thrift store).
Lighting: Florescent, or lots of super bright LED's, or flat/flexible OLED ceiling light(Yet to be invented until around 2010).
Flooring: Plaster, or adobe bricks that are put down and then soaked with water to bind them and to strengthen them. Or your own personal preference of flooring over top of that.
Cooking: A rocket stove made out of adobe. Smoke meat, on racks over a smoky fire.
Fresh water: Boil rain water, or put into a simple distiller, or chlorinate and let the chlorine evaporate from the container, before drinking.
Transportation: Have GPS to find your land locked property or deserted island. Then get there or anywhere with an AC induction motor, and super capacitor powered vehicle(Yet to be invented until late 2009).
Communication: Cell phone.
Bathroom: Either a bucket with a bag in it that you burn later, or the less smelly and easier version of having a bucket with water and a chlorine tablet in it and also CLR septic system acid. and you bury it in a hole nearby when disinfected. Then reuse bucket. This is either in a wooden structure or open air with tarps for privacy and rain. But if there is hardly any smell, because of complete disinfection, then just have it in the house, and chlorine off-gassing won't be a problem with only one pool tablet, or a lid put on the bucket.

What Makes It A Million Dollar House

I propose that having the most interesting things to look at in your house, makes it the most expensive house. Or another way to put it is the definition of a million dollar house is a house that is over built, or has lots of eye candy.

If you have more space in the house then there is more room for more interesting things to look at.

If you put things with a story behind them or that are one of a kind or that are the best of the best. Then those items in the house are now more interesting to look at and think about.

In every direction you look there should be something interesting to look at, in the best houses.

And there are always rich people that are tired of designing and putting together their own interiors. So there will always be a market for people that do that thinking for them. Interior designers/house flippers. But this is only true at the really high end houses. This isn't as effective at working class houses.

Working class houses are mostly built to be practical and cheapest. And typically your materials costs are just as expensive as labor costs, when calculated in the final appraisal value(this is a quick/easy calculation of sweat equity). But cheap and very effective materials are the best to put in lower end houses if you intend on selling it. But there is never a guarantee, of getting your money back in the working class market, because the market may go down after you're done renovating. But million dollar houses go by completely separate market conditions and are usually guaranteed to rise or stay stable in price, until the renovating is done.

The Utopia List (Updated 6 Times)

The above picture has recently been revised to have 1 large door laying on a slant over the entry way, that opens up so that you can go in with no arched spray foam entryway overhang anymore. And the area around the doors needs to be waterproof. This would be just like the storm doors that lead to basements that you can find at "home depot" these days.
This is for making utopia on a small piece of property adjacent to a forest. A.K.A. Making a permanent camp with all the necessary conveniences. Modify this to your personal needs.
A house shouldn't cost more and need more maintenance than you do as a person. Because it's cheaper these days to have children than to have a house.

To see more explanations behind the items on this list, look to: New house design 3/24/08
Warm climate version:
Foundation: none needed
Shape of house: Perfect hemisphere above ground and cylinder shaped wall below ground.
Insulation/heat retention: Spray foam and adobe
Materials needed: Land, Polyurethane foam, metal rods and plastic bags as the form, extension cords, bleach(maybe), chlorine pool tablets(maybe), "CLR septic system"(maybe), alcohol(make own), paint, plaster(maybe), grip clips(maybe), extension cords, solar panels, lead acid batteries, a good inverter, 2 buckets with lids, a home made water distiller, "ChlorFloc" (maybe) a metal grill, some materials for a slanted storm door as entry way
Structural Safety: Unneeded because it's not heavy enough to hurt you or trap you if it collapses. A metal geodesic dome is the strongest structure possible.
Fire safety: Have an inner coating of adobe or plaster and paint over the spray foam and an outer layer of dirt over the spray foam.
Flood safety: Don't live in a flood risk area.
Lightning/Wind storm/Bomb shelter : Use lightning rod, and it is a natural wind and bomb shelter.
Air flow: Cut an opening if needed
Plumbing version(1): Bleach (Made of chlorine), chlorine pool tablets, "CLR Septic System" , 1 or 2 or 3 buckets with lids. The first bucket is left to evaporate, for a week or so. And then just bury it somewhere safe. This could be a ratio of 50%Water/25%CLR/25%Bleach (Or the least amount that still disinfects).
Plumbing version(2): A plastic garbage bag, in the bucket and then burn it, in a high heat wood burning furnace(or a large rocket stove), once a month. And still use conventional toilet paper. But burn far away from houses to not smell the smoke.
Tools: Are unneeded, because only spray foam, and adobe, and it has an easy to assemble form, and all metal things for different parts of house are pre-made, and are only installed.
Reinforcement: May not be needed, otherwise build a geodesic dome, for the above ground portion. All that is needed is cheap electrical conduit, or even just wood poles, and bolts, see: This video.
Windows: Cut them out of the spray foam, if needed. And then buy the pre-made windows.
Entryway: Is a ramp in the ground ending at the doorway with a slanted doorway that is water tight, which is also a little bit elevated from the ground in case of flooding during a storm.
Water proofing: Spray foam is water proof. And have a raised portion before the ramp to not allow water to go down the ramp. It is still to be seen if sprayfoam doesn't grow mold.
Lighting: Led's powered by solar panels connected by extension cord built into the walls.(See: LED replacement tubes)
Electric: Solar panels, or wind energy charge "Sealed lead acid batteries". Then an inverter. Calculate power needs with this equation: Watts= Amps(x) Volts
Water: Comes from an artificial pond. Then distilled(see this simple distiller) . Or boiled. Or disinfected with "chlorfloc" and filtered. That is if you aren't using extremely dirty water, or chemically polluted water.
Shower: Home made "wet wipes" Made out of fruit that is allowed to ferment for a year and then is distilled with lemon scent added and then soaked into a rag. (See: simple distiller). Or warm soapy water and rag. But shampoo you'll still have to buy no matter what.
Furniture: Made out of wood or is inflatable(Inflatable is my preferred, at this point in time, if it works).
Vehicle: Is electric super capacitor car. Or use a boat to not have to pay for insurance or fuel, and sail along the coastline. See wind turbine boat.
Air conditioning: A wet shirt that evaporates to cool. A conventional air conditioner. For infinite air conditioning just hook up a solar panel.
Refrigerator: Smoked meat. Then cook it again later when eat it. Year round fruits and vegetables with grow lights takes just as much energy as a fridge. connect a fridge to a solar panel and batteries for night time power, for infinite power source.(See: Diagram of a smoker)(See:Wiki smoked meat)
Cooking: Have a "Rocket stove"(See: This picture of one), Or make a homemade wood burning stove, indoors or outdoors,(See: This picture of one) or a dutch oven. Or a grill or a pan or a hand held flipping grill or a pot. Dishes and utensils can be sanitized over the fire after rinsing and scraping dirt off of. Also see my recipes section.
Dishes/Utensils: Wash by hand in warm soapy water.
Meat/Eggs: Catch it, or hunt it, or farm it. Then smoke it.
Fruit/Vegetables/Spices: Grow year round crops. Or freeze.
Sweets/Dairy/Baked Goods/Nuts/Oil/Specialty: Buy it from store if needed.
Entertainment: DVD's are watched on a computer unless not compatible format, video games downloaded onto computer, books, TV on youtube or a stations website with recorded episodes, if you can get internet. Comic books bought on ebay, then scanned onto flash memory cards and viewed on any compatible screen, then sold back on ebay.
Communication: Cell phone
Trash: None made, or use the toilet waste hole as the trash can too.
Clothes: Water resistant synthetic materials and washed with an alcohol/lemon scent soaked rag on a solid wood frame. Or an ionizing washing machine(which doesn't need soap), or a bucket and clean plunger to agitate cotton clothes in soapy water.
Time: 3 quarts crystal watches and extra batteries for triple redundancy if one fails. They also have calendar function and are water proof. "Fossil" is a good utilitarian brand.
Navigation: GPS.
Government/Working: Egalitarianism of the tribal kind. Help friends so that they will help you. No control over other people except in contracts for agreements. Trade with people with no strings attached. Be self reliant so that you don't participate in the rest of the worlds fighting. And so that you are not subject to rules made by people you don't even know.
No more reason to like or dislike anything anymore to improve life, because no more improvements are possible, so therefore no more arguments or complaining are possible. (See: Source of all disputes). Or just live around people that agree with your own points of view. The best rule of thumb is if you have to make rules not to hurt others, then you're living around the wrong people to begin with.(Also see: Utopia now housing project)
Medical: Use insurance, get the best doctor in the field for the particular illness.
Population of any civilization: Build more houses and expand your boarders if your population is too dense. Or eventual birth control in distant future.
Money just in case needed: Have a job while building the house. And you can always totally live off the land, like a homesteader.
Monthly Bills: Expect only 600$/ mo to be needed at first to pay all bills. Assuming you bought the land outright.(Bills are: Car insurance; medical; taxes; groceries; supplies: alcohol, soap , TP, clothes, etc. ; cell phone).
Pets: Are a liability, or have video game pets or robotic pets. Or inconsequential pets like mice.
Lawn mowing: It is a liability, unless a very low maintenance breed of grass. Or have dirt or stones or gravel.
Garage: May or may not choose to have one.

New House Design Pics.(updated 3 times)

The above is a revised design extrapolated from, the previously mentioned extremely simplified version of a solar still. The previous design was a good proof of concept. And this new design may not be the final design, but it's more automated now, with more output. The thick plastic wrap may be replaced by a transparent/flexible/hard sheet of plastic, that is pressure sealed and has a natural dip in the center. Otherwise have a weight put into the center that doubles as pressure for an air tight seal around the edges. And maybe a needle poked into the center of the plastic sheet to aid the water droplets.
The above is a homemade wood-burning stove that can be made extremely cheaply. And it should work theoretically. But this is extrapolated from Italian wood burning pizza ovens and wood burning stoves and rocket stoves combined. And you can put it in a house if it's a colder climate for indoor heating and cooking. Or you can put it outside if you don't want it warming your house in a warmer climate, after adding plaster over the adobe to waterproof it. LATER ADDED: The above stove is probably bad advice and may not work and is untested so instead just get a potbelly wood-burning stove to use in a house unless even that is too expensive, or unobtainable for some reason.
The above shows the slight difference between a smoker and a char paper maker. You may not want the char paper maker directly in the fire, as the goal is to char the paper, not burn it up totally. These are very useful things to have if you're living self reliantly.
There is another school of thoughts on making a smoker, which is to just put wet wood chips directly on top of hot coals. You can soak these wood chips in any liquid, even beer to add flavor to what you're smoking. You also want grease catcher or pan under any cooking meat so that the grease doesn't catch on fire and char your meat from flames, while you're smoking. This could be just a layer of tin foil between the meat and the coals.
Supposedly you don't need a refrigerator if you smoke meat. Look to Smoked meat on Wiki. And the meat could have come from hunting on your property, or with a license for only the cost of the license. And the rest of your diet could be fruit and vegetables that are free to grow, or pick from a forest.
The above is a picture of an easy to make and test, solar still, for purifying any kind of water indefinitely to make it potable. Without the need for boiling, or chlorinating, or filtering. And this system should be very inexpensive, and easy to find parts for. And it should never be able to break. You may put a friction sealed hose through the bottom of both containers in order to make a more automated approach to distilled water collection. Or use a safe glue to permanently attach the small cup to the pan, and then just drill a hole into the bottom of both newly glued together containers. And use better plastic for the plastic wrap portion.
Imagine a world where all of the drinking water that you need is absolutely free. And if you put a water jug underneath the distiller then you just store that newly filled jug somewhere afterwards. And you can make as much distilled water as you want if you just scale up the operation.
The above is the indoor heating stove which is only metal piping that goes through the roof and has a rain cover. With bigger piping you can have a bigger fire, based on the size of the room to be heated. This uses wood as the fuel, as long as you have a plentiful source of kindling. Which is also solid state, or will never break. And easy to construct by yourself, if you find the right type of ducting, and put aluminum tape or something around the connections. Also it's more efficient than a fire place because it conducts the heat into the house as it flows through the pipe instead of a brick chimney. But I now realize that there actually needs to be preventative measures factored into the above picture to keep the fire from migrating up the wood and letting smoke get into the horizontal part of the pipe and from there wafting into the house. So the horizontal part of pipe may be shorter(I'd say only about 1 inch of horizontal pipe, to be exact)leaving just enough room for a grill , and the actual fire. And there may be a cover or screen on the hole to prevent sparks from entering the house. And a heat shield for where the metal pipes touch the house. And also oxidization of the piping may or may not make the metal structure fail in the future. So some testing definitely needs to be done.
Imagine if you had no heating bill. If all of the wood for the rocket stove fireplace was gotten from your property or fallen trees in a nearby forest. Another alternative to this technology would be an electric heater if your house had solar power, and wasn't too far north.
The above picture is how rocket stoves should be made. I don't know why they call them a rocket stove, I call them a homemade BBQ. They are efficient because of low internal heat loss, and you can cook food outside on them, with just some wood. It can be made out of either, metal cans cut to shape, or just out of adobe or clay. Which when made out of adobe can be free to make if you get a thrown away metal grill found on the side of the road. And as I think about it, it may be possible to melt metal, or make burnt limestone(Cement) if you scale up the oven size and blow air into the intake part, with a fan of some kind.
Imagine a world where it is absolutely free to cook food. There is no energy bill from using a stove. And if you have wood scraps on your property, then there is no fuel costs for the BBQ. So now there's no coal or gas cost. And the BBQ is maintenance free and can be rebuilt also, practically for free. And to boil water when you can't distill it, to drink, would be free.
To make a water sealed version of the adobe rocket stove just put it in a fire and bellows in the same way as they make bricks, read following:

Mud bricks

The soft mud method is the most common, as it is the most economical. It starts with the raw clay, preferably in a mix with 25-30% sand to reduce shrinkage. The clay is first ground and mixed with water to the desired consistency. The clay is then pressed into steel moulds with a hydraulic press. The shaped clay is then fired ("burned") at 900-1000 °C to achieve strength.

This taken from Wiki under bricks

New house design : 3/24/08 (UPDATED 9 TIMES)

Ignore all of the previous posts about "house designs", for now. Because I'm starting to rethink my design. And I found this professional adobe video

• Cold climate version:
• Materials: The only bad building material up north is adobe by itself. But log homes and spray foam or spray foam along with adobe together, should all work up north. As long as you include reinforcement to the spray foam so that a heavy snow fall doesn't collapse the roof. The material of spray foam is better than camp tents because of insulation qualities and also is 100% water proof and can be reinforced with a geodesic dome to make the sturdiest structure possible. Also it's easy to work with, and can be added onto late and easily cut for new doorways or new wiring, and it lasts forever.
  
• Heating: And to best heat a house up north is with a "rocket stove" inside the house with a duct going out the roof(Look at this picture of one). Because there isn't reliable solar power for electric heating. And I would add spray foam insulation in the interior for extreme cold.
  
• Shower: Use a rag and warm soapy water. Imagine not having any water bill from taking showers. And use dollar store shampoo and dollar store soap(Which are the exact same chemical formula as the name brands).
• Safety:If you make a spray foam house, have a smaller opening for a door, and a steep berm of dirt put over the dome of the house, to keep bears out. And always have an AR-15 or comparable gun. Pepper spray cannot stop an angry person so it definitely cannot stop an angry bear. Also you may incorporate extra reinforcement, of wood or metal, into the spray foam.
  
• Warm climate version:
• Materials: The same as the materials used up north, except there may not be any need for reinforcement because of no heavy snowfall or animals ever being on the roof.
• Heating and Cooling: Is all solar powered electric heating and air conditioning. I plan on making a solid state air conditioner some day.
  
• Foundation: For an adobe house, the perfect foundation or just floor would be soaked adobe bricks that then dries as the foundation. If a foundation is needed. Because you may only need retaining walls for the sides of the hole in the ground even when the dome is built. And the spray foam should act as retaining walls. And the spray foam doesn't weigh enough to need a foundation.
  
• Shape of structure: A perfect hemisphere shaped structure above ground and the other half of house being below ground is the best structure, because of there being even weight distribution along the dome, and the walls of the underground portion act as buttresses for the dome, as the weight is spread outward into the ground walls. Make spray foam dome form and spray from the inside of the structure to have a completely solid encapsulated spray foam structure.
  
• Insulation: This is the best house structure because of the extreme heat retention/ temperature moderation qualities of the below ground part of house. Both made out of spray foam and adobe. The spray foam may even perform better than carpeting as flooring. Otherwise just have a hard adobe and plaster floor, or wood floor over that.
  
• Material cost: The only costs incurred are buying the land(?$/acre), and metal rods(thrift store tent rods/50$), and spray foam(7$/can x 40= 280$/or x 1,000 cans=7,000$which is even then a very inexpensive house)and thrift store extension cords(5$/each) and garbage bags over the dome structure, as the form for the spray foam to go under, which are later removed(5$), and misc. chemicals for daily life(CLR=5$) (Bleach=5$)(Chlorine pool tablets=10$/mo) (Alcohol=3$/quarter gallon). The excavated ground is used for making adobe to put around the spray foam for extra heat retention. And you would just pile it around the outside of the hole as you dig it to make the house the high point on the property for water drainage purposes. And for less digging. from the excavated dirt becoming higher around sides to make a wall. Now just dig the size of hole you want.
• Making adobe: First you dig a hole, then you fill it with water, then you fill the hole back in with dirt, and then mix it up. What you will end up with once the hole dries up in 1 day, is clay that has settled at the top and sand that has settled at the bottom of the hole. Now you just skim the clay off of the top, and mix it with sand in the proper portions to make adobe. This is useful for a structural and heat retentive component of a house. You can also include hay mixed in with it, acting as a binding material, for structural adobe. Adobe is also useful when making a rocket stove.
  
• Safety: The low profile dome structure is a natural bomb shelter(if you have no certainty about future wars). And it cannot hurt you if it was even possible to cave in, because the only ceiling is composed of 1 ft. spray foam(which is also a structural component). And an inner layer of plaster and an outer thin layer of dirt.
  
• Skills needed: It requires no skill, other than proper research and preparation(which is written here) and common sense.
  
• Plumbing: This house design requires no plumbing, when you use a bucket with a seat over it, which has chlorine and CLR septic system and water in it, and the waste is dumped out in a safe place after the chlorine has evaporated. May not use the bucket inside of your house, because of chlorine off gassing, because it may give off toxic amounts chlorine gas; which by the way, may not be true because indoor pools do it all the time. So just have an outhouse where you keep the bucket of CLR and Chlorine for a toilet. To be later disposed of in a dug out, safe area. Also CLR septic system liquid which breaks up the solids, is neutralized upon contact with any water. And the chlorine always just eventually evaporates. But instead of bleach you may use chlorine pool tablets for constant chlorine saturation and not being able to waste unneeded chlorine. And just have a cover over the bucket if you need to transport it. And because all of the bacteria is now dead in the sewage, there is no bad smell being produced. And Chlorine may have to be added sometime after the CLR if the active ingredients in CLR are neutralized by the bleach.(This is easily tested by just seeing if the sewage solids are liquified fully when both the bleach and CLR are added at the same time).
  

  Frequently Asked Questions CLR® Septic System: (See: This link)

  WHAT IS A SEPTIC SYSTEM?
  A Septic System is a self contained Underground wastewater treatment system.The Septic System is composed of a septic tank and a leach/absorption area.

  WHAT IS A SEPTIC SYSTEM'S PURPOSE IN THE HOUSEHOLD?
  The purpose of the tank is to treat household wastes. The tank treats the waste by the water falling to the bottom, the solids that are lighter float to the top and the heavier waste/sludge goes to the bottom.The sludge/solids that fall to the bottom must be treated with a Septic System treatment to convert these materials into liquids which then will flow to the drain field.

• 2nd way of plumbing: Is to use an Ozone generator, that pumps waste water from a container, through an Ozone bubbling chamber, and then back into the waste water container. With an added filter to prevent the pump from getting clogged, and manual agitation of the sewage and extra water mixture to liquefy it for the pump. (This has since been revised, as there is no way to know for certain if the water is actually disinfected, because there is no detector for the saturation of ozone in the water, and the bigger the vat of water to be disinfected the more uncertain it becomes as to the % of water that has been disinfected by the ozone) A better way to disinfect water that Ozone, would be a section of pipe with UV bulb that shines through the pipe disinfecting any water that passes by that section of pipe. But the bulb does have a life expectancy, and will need to be replaced eventually, maybe someday a solid state UV bulb will be invented that won't break. And can be solar powered. We have infinite clean water that comes from the sky, and for the desert we have atmospheric condensers, or underground water. So there never was and never will be any shortage of water. Just a shortage of utilizing what we have.
• 3rd way of plumbing: Just have a garbage bag in a bucket for a toilet and take it out when full, and then put it into an incinerator oven that disintegrates the waste. But make sure that it's far away from the house or neighbors, to not smell the smoke.
  
• Dome shaped form: You may put arch shaped metal rods(camping tent poles attached together) along the inside of the hole, and a screen of some kind over that (Plastic garbage bags will work). And then put the spray foam insulation layer as a moisture barrier, and as a structural substrate, for putting dirt on top of. Which would then not even need water proofing on top of. Research : polyurethane foam properties(follow link) But if it turns out that the spray foam isn't 100% water proof like it should be, then just put a second waterproof paint coating over that.
  
• Need to test: So I need to test the strength of polyurethane spray foam with reinforcement incorporated into it. Also the moisture barrier qualities of the foam. And how big of a dome that has 12 inches thick of adobe, that the metal rods and foam would support. And how fire proof it actually is. LATER ADDED: I tested the structural integrity of spray foam and it has the same weight and strength of material as "styrofoam" or a really hard "nerf ball". It does rip and compresses when you stand on it. So don't stand on your house once it's built. LATER ADDED: I tested it's water proof qualities and it passed with flying colors. I made a bowl out of spray foam, and filled it with water, and the water just sat on top for hours and hours, and the bottom was completely dry afterward also. LATER ADDED: I also tested how fire retardant spray foam is by using a lighter on it. And it failed that test. So since spray foam is not fire proof, your best bet to fireproofing it is to put a thin layer of adobe or plaster on the inside of the house. And a thin layer of dirt on top of the outside dome of the house. This way the heat doesn't get through to the spray foam. And may need an emergency exit like a window if the door is blocked. And in case of a brush fire I would cut down all of the tall foliage that may be surrounding the house.
  
• Reinforcement: Is not needed if the dirt layer on top of the spray foam is thin enough. But if used, the reinforcement could be bent metal rods in the shape of the house. Made out of any metal that doesn't corrode(my choice is flexible tent poles). Or electrical conduit as structure. And encapsulate them in spray foam. Which also fills in the gaps between the metal rods. If you make the dome of the house into a metal geodesic dome then you have the strongest structure possible. See: This video on making geodesic domes. Another option is just have translucent (not transparent) tarps over the geodesic dome, shingled over the dome with "grip clips", that retain heat when the sun is out. Just like a green house, which would only be used in a temperate climate.
  
• Fire/Lightning/Flood/Tornado/Wind: The spray foam is not fire proof, so cover the inside of it with adobe, that is the consistancy of mayonaise, and then put paint over that. Then cover the outside with a layer of dirt. Lightning should be conducted away with a lightning rod. Flood? Don't live in a flood prone area. Tornadoes cannot even dent this house. Also don't live too close to a group of trees which may fall on the house during a storm. Or that can catch fire during a brush fire. And have an emergency exit also.
  
• Doorway/windows: Make sure to leave holes for a door and small south facing(in cold climate) windows. For air flow and accessability. Or have sections cut out of spray foam that take out or put back in as portholes, that can open or close depending on the weather, that also have a screen over to keep the bugs out.
• Airflow: You may need air flow that does not let light in, when the portholes are closed. Even though people do completely seal their houses anyway all over the place if the weather is too cold or too hot. You don't want the house to be so perfectly air tight and water tight and insulated, that it's like in the movies where you only have 2 hours worth of oxygen left inside the house every time that you close the door.
  
• Entryway: This has recently been revised to have a 1 hinge "basement door" attached at an angle over a ramp into going down into the house, instead of an arched entryway.
  
• Waterproofing: Make sure that the front of the entryway is above ground level in a way that will not let water down the ramp, into the house. And the spray foam provides water proofing.
  
• Lighting: Have LED replacement bulbs for florescent light fixtures. Or when it's available within the next 5 years get a sheet of flat white OLED's that you put on your ceiling. Ones that require only a battery and a solar panel and just the Led's without an added high voltage inverter, would be best.
  
• Electric: Have extension cords built into the walls coming from solar panels and new non- lead acid batteries or sealed lead acid batteries that are low maintenance, and an inverter just in case needed. And all of your devices then just need their own transformer to get the right amount of energy. But have a separate low power usage device system that is not reliant on an inverter. Because with the right technology high power may never be needed. The only power consumption is from a laptop computer, house lighting, and maybe a TV/DVD player depending on the need for one. Anything else is just extra depending on your personal tastes for the lifestyle you want. But remember, more complication means more things to hassle with when they break. Use this simple equation to figure out how much power you need. Watts= Amps(x) Volts (fill in the data to get the size of solar panels needed to power the sum of all devices, day and night. And the size of battery bank needed.). In a real utopia you would have super capacitors that stored the solar or wind energy that powered the home.
• Water: Have an artificial pond dug out nearby. That will gradually fill itself with water. Or all at once after a storm. Then filter and chlorinate some of it, when some is needed for use. For drinking water use "Chlor. floc.". Or boil it. Or distill the water with the simple distiller Shown here. Imagine never paying a water bill.
• Shower: Use alcohol soaked rags(Which is the same thing as "wet wipes"). Or warm soapy water, and rag. You make the same movements and exert the same energy by using a rag, as by taking a shower.
• Clothes Washing: Have non water absorbent materials such as 100% nylon or acrylic. And clean them on a frame with an alcohol soaked rag. Alcohol works as a solvent and is antibacterial, and with lemon extract added, it will smell good. Or for conventionally washed cotton, have a bucket of soapy water that you agitate with a clean plunger. But if you wash conventionally you have to pay for cleaning fluid.
  
• Alcohol: Make your own by fermenting any fruit. And then distilling it in one hot container, for the original alcohol to be in, and one cold container for the condensation, which are both connected and sealed by tubing. Or use the distiller shown here. Imagine never paying for cleaning chemicals. And you just leave it for a year and it makes itself.
• Furniture: Have inflatable bed and maybe even furniture, to keep down dust mites, and to produce less dust to clean. And make your own wood furniture, because it's simple enough. Carpet is the weirdest invention that humans have ever come up with. they need replacement frequently, cause dust, offgas fumes from the glues in them, and need a vacuum cleaner for the soul purpose of carpets. Just have solid floors with spray foam insulation under them and use a "swivel sweeper" to sweep them, or just a broom and dust pan.
  
• Vehicle: Use the same technology that everyone else does. I did some research on making biodiesel that you can see here. But I may make my own electric charging stations in the future, by buying small pieces of land all around the state and putting a solar panels on them to stop at with my electrical vehicle of choice. All with the money I save by not paying a mortgage each month. Electric will easily outsell internal combustion cars when the gas prices are 6$/gallon. So our society will never have to revert to living without vehicles.
  
• Heating: Use an electric heater, because solar power is reliable in temperate climates.
• Air conditioning: Some kind of solid state cooling that doesn't break and is energy efficient. There are "wick fans" that cool a water soaked wick by evaporation and are energy efficient, and don't break. But that produces humid air. A sterling engine is nice to have. Being in the below ground portion of house is cooler, if you don't let sunlight in. Just conventional air conditioners work fine but I thought of a solid state version that will work in the future see it here.
  
• Refrigerator: May not be needed if you smoke your hunted meat(See: This diagram of a smoker), and otherwise eat fruit and vegetables. See Smoked meat on Wiki. But if it's needed then just use the conventional fridge, or a new solid state energy efficient version, if there is one. As in sterling engine. But for infinite energy to power the fridge you should definitely invest in a solar panel and batteries to power it forever, without paying a monthly energy bill forever.
  
• Cooking: Is done on a "Rocket stove"(See: This picture of one), and if you need an oven then use a large box with a chimney as a wood burning oven, or just a dutch oven. Otherwise use a grill or a pan or a hand held flipping grill or a pot. Which all can be sanitized over the fire after rinsing and scraping the dirt off of.
  
• Dishes/Utensils: Wash by hand in warm soapy water.
• Fruit/Vegetables/Spices: Grow year round crops in cold and hot weather outside and in a greenhouse with growlights. Or freeze crop overruns if you live up north.
  
• Meat/Eggs: Catch it, or hunt it, or farm it. Then smoke it. Having chickens can be like having any other pet, if you only ate their eggs. Buy traps, or make one out if some cord. Go spear fishing with a homemade bow and arrow(See how to make them here)
  
• Sweets/Dairy/Baked Goods/Nuts/Oil/Specialty: Buy from store if needed.
  
• Entertainment: Is needed because going on nature walks can only entertain you for so long before you want to watch TV, but then again that's way more fun to some people. So may buy TV shows on DVD or watch TV shows on youtube, If you can find a way to get satellite internet on your property.
  

New house design: 01/11/08: (Updated 3 times)

This design is now outdated. Look to the new design at This link.
This is the new design that uses a chicken wire mesh structure of the thickness needed to support the adobe. The chicken wire can be found at "home depot". The structure shouldn't collapse if the adobe is thick, because of thickness to circumference ratio. and there may be bowing at the sides which should be reinforced with rebar at the edge of the dome, bent to be an angle.
But the adobe is applied in one thin layer at a time. And when one layer has dried, the next is then added and the preceding layer will have added to the strength of the structure, becoming even sturdier than the chicken wire alone, and support more and more applications of adobe later on.
Any wires or windows that you want are embedded in the walls as you build.
The soil separation pit: Is where you separate the clay from the sand of the existing soil and it's extremely easy. What you do is dig a small pit and fill with watter then mix in some of your existing soil really well, and when the mud slurry settles and dries out in a day or 2, the sand will have settled to the bottom and at the very top is where all of the clay (or tiniest particles) will have settled.
Now you can mix the adobe solution of the portion of sand(50%)/ clay(33%) and if you want, add a binder material(15%)(which is not necessarily needed) which is outlined on "wikipedia" under "adobe". But for the binder material I plan on incorporating plastic chicken wire mesh on top of each coating of adobe, before it dries. Several layers of adobe should be enough to support it's own weight and not be breakable by human force(1 ft thick)
Then over top of everything is just a water proof coating to protect the adobe from the weather. Adobe turns into mud when wet so need a 100% acrylic paint(the best all around weather paint) or something similar, to put over it.
And if you need better insulation for colder climates you just put a coat of expanding polyurithane foam on the inside of the house walls. Which is completely nontoxic, and cheap, and easy.
And if there is not enough water on your property to make a mud puddle or a water source that can supply your household needs, then you just need to make an artificial pond at a low point on your property, and it will fill with water over the course of time(about a year unless it's a big pond).
If you need drinking water then you can use a good filter(liken slow sand filter) to filter the pond water and put chlorine in it and then wait 3 days for the chlorine to evaporate and you will be able to drink it. As long as it was kept clean after the chlorine application and it doesn't still taste like chlorine. This is what some municipal water supplies do. To filter it just use a home made "slow sand filter".
LATER ADDED: It seems at this time that this technology is good for many more reasons which are...

• It can be assembled and disassembled by 1 person because you can apply the adobe one hand full at a time. And can be disassembled by easily removing the water proof coating and then letting the rain wash it off of the wire mesh.
  
• A foundation may not be needed, if the function of the foundation is to: Not let the house settle(which may not be needed and happens anyways in wood structures/compact the ground with water and vibrating the soil w/a machine or compressing it by stepping on: A.K.A. "rammed earth") ; And to protect from moisture (which will not get in when you extend the waterproof coating beyond the edge of house) ; And to keep the structure above from spreading(which will not happen if you put wood posts in the ground within the walls). may also have a metal mesh foundation if that somehow helps in any way.
  
• Adobe with a water proof coating can be almost as strong as concrete and you don't even need a jackhammer to remove it.
• Don't need pipes if you have a chemical toilet bucket or an outhouse and bury the sanitized waste, and fresh water is in it's own container having been sterilized by the chlorine and filtering.
  
• All pots/pans/plates/cups/utensils are washed by hand with soap- or are sprayed with water and sanitized over the fire.
• Wires are just extension cords built into the walls before sealing in with adobe
• Windows are for air flow and so are small portals that can be closed and it will have 2 doorways for if you decide to add on a new wing onto the house later.
• There is no need for complicated roof construction that will need to constantly be replaced or fixed.
• The light is supplied by an "LED replacement bulb" for a florescent light fixture.
• The house also acts as a "Faraday cage" because of the wire mesh. So it can protect against lightning.

New Self-Built House Design : November,08,'07

----- This is my new simpler above ground rammed earth house design. You would make the rammed earth bricks out of subsoil and water and put the mud into a press which you use leverage to compact the sand/loam/clay mixture (test different mixtures for the best composition)
-----The solar panels can be the new nanotech printed kind now that it's available and it's bound to lower in price. The company name is "Nanosolar" go to www.nanosolar.com to be able to buy it through their integrator people in your area and is $00.30/watt instead of the $3/watt of conventional solar panels, or the $1/watt of coal power(from pg. 102 of "popular science December 2007")
-----The solar heating window is south facing and warms up the house during the day and is a highly insulating window. And you may cover the window in the summers.
-----The foundation may not be needed if the house doesn't settle much in the short term and the structure isn't heavy enough to crush you(only being a metal roof/thin solar cells, and the metal poles keep the walls from collapsing inward) . But for flooring you still need either stone or hardwood floors with a moisture barrier in between it and the ground to stop expansion/ contraction(stone slabs don't need a moisture barrier but you still don't want mold and mildew growing, so use liquid vinyl paint and plywood then a flooring style on top. If you don't just put in a cement foundation in the first place!
-----For the metal roof research "roof" on Wikipedia under "metal roof" for the best kind to buy. And for the underside of the metal roof you may use "spray foam" as insulation unless it is actually toxic which they may not be telling us. In which case use something lightweight with high insulating ability that you can stick to or stretch across the whole roof(i.e.wool blankets or packing material sheets bolted on).
-----Lighting: To light the house you may use the "EverLED tube" from "everled.com"or at "ledsupply.com" for $150 that looks just like a florescent tube but it lasts 5 times longer and uses 25% less energy and is nontoxic.
-----Power storage: Just get deep cycle lead acid batteries, or if it's practical at all you may use the new nanotech lithium-ion batteries from "a123systems.com" and get the developers pack for 130$ to store the power for the house at night. Or if you're really good you may even make your own electric vehicle with this. But since there is no place to charge up along the way, it's pointless to make an electric vehicle.
-----Trash: Have a 2 plastic bins that are in a slide out drawer under the counter. In one of the bins you put biodegradable material and add sawdust and water as needed. And in the other bin you put nonbiodegradable trash or recyclables.