[2ndDivisionVet]

Have you read up on straw bale houses?

[familyop]

"Have you read up on straw bale houses?"

Yes. Even less straw can be used as insulation in CEB (compressed earth block) construction without the enormous quantities of concrete.

Here's a short story of a professional construction job. Some folks had a manufactured house installed on a cheap lot not far from here--a house considered by most to be small (only slightly larger than an old tract house). Their costs totaled over $300,000, and they've been trying to sell it for about $200,000 for years. There are no power lines for several miles, and the heating system there is forced air (no-go for a PV solar plant) with a propane generator for backup (another no-go for an area that see winter temps below -30 F and winds over 100 mph). There were other mistakes.

I can do better than that for much less. Most folks these days don't like to learn to build, though.

[Big Red Badger]

Shipping Containers are pretty Sweet!