Two thousand years from now I should just about be done with my house. I have been working away at various things just trying to keep nature at bay and I realize that I spend a fair amount of time doing just that. I would like to figure out how to make a house that not only doesn’t allow nature to eat it but that actually channeled the nefarious bugs and plants into useful roles. I honestly wouldn’t mind it if a tornado came along and leveled my place so I could start again knowing what I know now. Everything would be made of concrete, glass, and steel. I would trap every drop of water that hit my house, use the sunlight to heat it and pressurize it, then have it spray out periodically to steam clean the bugs and plants off the outside. I would have the plants and bugs collected in neat little troughs which would funnel the biomaterial into a machine that would compress them into cubes and place them on a grid in the sun. When they dried out I would use them for fuel in the winter. My whole house would be an energy trap that ticked on its own just like a clock. It would take care of itself so that I could take care of other things. Now, having just written about it, I want to go home and work!
