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> I've been researching containers, as I plan to put many of them under ground in concrete. Why? Prepper?

• jacquesm 7y ago
  Grower?
• LinuxBender 7y ago
  Prepper is sometimes used as a pejorative, but my goal is to document building a modern home under ground, step-by-step, including everything required to keep local governments happy. I believe that all homes should be under ground when feasible. It is the optimal path to a sustainable carbon neutral, energy efficient home while maximizing the surface area for garden space and minimizing eye-sores. This would be especially useful for people that live in areas of extreme heat, extreme cold, tornado's, hurricanes, flooding (if done right). If you are curious, there are literally thousands of videos on youtube of folks that have built such homes and they are very nice on the inside. Some people get fancy with tubes that bring in natural sunlight. The temperature under ground is about 50-54 degrees F all year, so heating and cooling is very easy. A rocket mass heater combined with a large stone heat bank can warm up an underground home in 30 minutes and keep it warm for days afterwards. This isn't a new concept at all. It just happens that storage containers are very sturdy and can handle large amounts of concrete pressure. There are companies that sell / build these as fallout shelters, but they charge a lot and do not design them as full time homes. I am not going to link to the shelter companies, as most of them are shams.