I don't know if this is the same one, but. A shop-teacher in our school read a Rodale article years ago - sometime around 1980. Then he bought the plans. All about such a house. So, he built it. Super-insulated and used a thermal-storage system. This required a lot of sand and water buried underground. Then you heat it all summer with solar-collectors. Come winter, you live off of all that stored heat from underground. He spent a fortune on the project. All new construction. Got all done and it didn't work. He could not get the house warmer then 45-50 F in the dead of winter. He later installed an oil hot-water baseboard system and sold the house.
Now, that story obviously doesn't prove a thing except his project did not work. I suspect those Rodale plans did not take into account our lousy cold weather and lack of sun.
I still read Mother Earth. Still sort of an "old Hippy" magazine, but some stuff of interest.
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