Simon Forman on Nostr: Grass and earth are the easiest, most readily available, lowest embodied energy ...
Grass and earth are the easiest, most readily available, lowest embodied energy building materials.
So: straw baler and a rammed earth, uh, ram?
Stepping up a level, what does it take to make balers and rams?
What's the Minimum Viable Civilization?
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