The inherent genius of the tipi [teepee] is that it is a cone tilted toward the prevailing downwind direction. Augmented with sophisticated smoke flaps to control airflow through the interior.
Circular floorplans dominate low-energy building systems. Tipi dwellers describe the newbies houses as "a mountain with several caves in it".
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.Without freedom of speech we wouldn't know who all the idiots are. -- anonymous poster
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.Because much of what is in the published literature is nonsense,
and much of what isn’t nonsense is not in the scientific literature.
-- Sabine Hossenfelder
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