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It took five years to build the two storey mudbrick house. to let in the morning sun in winter controlled planting of melaleuca
through a wall of French doors that trees indigenous to the area.
ingredients to build this homestead batteries. Solar panels, still in their heated a floor of dark slate and helped They yielded powerful high grade
in true pioneering spirit, with no infancy, sucked in the photons of warm the house. Thick mudbrick antiseptic tea tree oil. Handy to dab
electricity to drill a hole or turn a light from the sun and provided walls also served as a thermal mass on the many cuts and abrasions from
power saw. 12-volt power to light up the house and contained heat for many hours. the knocks and bruises of building.
Wind turbines, made from bicycle and its appliances. Home-made In summer the multi-faceted roof Thursday Plantation, famous for
wheels with tin blades folded onto collector panels thermo-siphoned shaded the walls from the hot sun. its tea tree products, was only a few
their spokes, spun atop the roof. steaming hot water to the shower. Heating and cooling devices were kilometres away to give inspiration.
They powered small dynamos that The solar-passive house, using never needed. A retired ship’s captain from
trickled electricity into a bank of greenhouse principles, was designed We cleared over 10 acres for Norway and his South African wife