Malcolm's house at Oyster Cove

Sunday, April 02, 2006

house plan



Large windows in the NE, N and NW facets of the hexagon collect sunlight throughout the day. During winter nights solar energy is released by the slow-combustion fire. The trees on my property use solar energy to extract carbon from the atmosphere and convert it into wood, then I chop up the wood and burn it to release that energy. I grow more trees than I chop for fire wood so my property is a carbon sink.