How does that hold up with high wind/water (if you don't mind me asking)? I live in Mesa, AZ and trying to look into a quick and doable build that will hold up to the weather out here.

I was wondering why there is no vent.

a skylight would've been perfect

@@toprob20 Yes, for both light and ventilation.

If you do a underground vent system in combination with the roof vent you can use the earth to cool.

My youngest Jenny thought they were adorable too!

Same here, I'm in SW Florida and live without heat or air conditioning. I have several oaks around me that help a lot. Keeping the roof coated with elastomeric makes the difference.

Great point!! In addition to the regular ambient air temperature taking, Jim we’d sure love to see you get a surface temperature meter- the tiny cen tech would be great to see: the human body is more affected by radiant gains and losses ( radiant heat transfer is tracked not by air temperatures: radiation happens no matter the air temperature- ask and measure: “are the surfaces surrounding the occupants body warmer or cooler?” You have a great chance to show and test for yourself ( with a surface temperature meter) how sneaky radiant temps have huge effects on thermal experience and yes thermal safety- suppose if the trailer and the dome are closer in air temperature, you can feel a lot better in one versus the other factoring the impact of surface temperatures. As you are taking temperatures try to take some surface temperatures. Yes it’s a lot of energy to gain human comfort but you get a huge boost to harness radiant thermal factors. Just having thermal mass is part of this, but I’d love to help share how to consciously harness the radiant facet. Shading the outer shell (double shelling) with an air gap and ideally removable -over either the trailer or the dome will shunt heat away from even heat loading anything. The other side of the harnessing radiant principle is on cloudless nights you want your surfaces like the outer dome/ to radiate out to the night sky. ( So remove the shade of you can. Also you can do that trick in a more manageable scale of switching and moving by rolling water barrels just to prove this: with some of your water storage if you had black metal water drums you let sit out at night then rolled indoors close to you, they’d be a cool battery. Radiantly: it will improve your body to have more radiant heat losses gotta unload that heat grain off your body. You add and lose more radiantly surface to surface than you can offload by blowing cold. Air. In a space. Radiant is core to many hot arid natural traditional shelter making. Also besides tracking radiant flows not just air flows.. do flush the hot air buildup: get a little Fan out that pipe thats way up there … one more and I’ll stop: precool the hot outside area ahead of your door: don’t worry so much about it being perfectly sealed: until you do I’d love to see you test and see now the air temp is effected if you put some temperature mitigations right outside the leaky doors or windows: maybe trees or your clothesline with sheets, orbees, wet rags etc but place some evaporative anything between hot outside and that door. Blow bubbles and you’ll see the added force of untempered hot outside versus cool inside. If you slow midday intensity of difference in temperature by putting shade or green clotheslines or whatever in between hot outside and cool inside, while the door is closed in the day you might be able to lessen hot air coming in. Most of all vent the top and factor surface temperatures: I sure would love to see you take some spot temps ( beg beg beg) have fun with that radiant strategy: try to step out of the air conditioning paradigm relying on perfecting the seal of contained air. If you do you have to cycle and switch things but you’ll get some amped effect and efficiency. I’ll mail you a surface meter but they’re cheap at harbor freight/Amazon. That’s for spots on the cheap but If you know a firefighter or someone with a fleer or other cheaper rainbow whole view surface temp sensor it would be really immediately spectacularly telling! Way More than my verbiage!! Some surface temp viewer types just clip on your cellphone Look up Robert bean, ASHRAE , “what is mrt and why we should care” article, and also the royal institute utube “the physics of hot air” ! Have fun doing cool tests of the heat, expand your thermal senses to include surface temperature, mean radiant temperature somehow, and stay safe!

Making it taller and wider would help with the rain collection, by placing the water storage inside, and directly filling them from the gutters. Also siding would keep the sun off the tanks, making them easier to read their levels. Costs would have doubled, but payback in water over time. Maybe a swamp cooler for Crew is in the future. Easy to make. Tank, fan, evaporative material, and make a frame.

About 30% of males are color blind to some extent. I'm very red/green color deficient. There is an upside to it, I have better than normal night vision. Good Luck, Rick

@@richardross7219 In Australia, the AC wiring colour standards are Brown=Active, Blue=Neutral and Yellow with green stripe=ground/earth for precisely this reason, they used to be red, black and green it was changed in the 1980's to make things safer. Also our traffic lights are cyan and magenta not green and red for the same reason.

@@daveamies5031 I never had problems with household wiring but automotive was always a challenge. In the US, the Red light is to the top or left and usually bigger. I was a town engineer for 10 years+. Good Luck, Rick

Yes! Mini splits are amazing!

Don: Any experience with what you suggest or just been reading?

Good idea. I took a caravan to South France in July some years ago. We stayed at the same site for the month and made a wood frame over the caravan, about 40cm above the roof and extending about a metre around the sides,ends. It was covered by a sun screen tarp, secured to the frame by staples. All materials were bought cheaply in UK . The caravan had no Aircon but stayed acceptably cool in temps of around 35C. The neighbouring caravan occupants were sleeping outside under mosquito nets as their vans were too hot. Fine until thunder/rain.... At least the Arizona sun could be blocked from their van by such a covering. The dome needs a way to cool it. I couldn't live at the high temps they have recorded in there.

@@jimmyjohnstone5878 here in Houston Texas were known for our very hot summers, ive been using these shade tarps for years , they last a long time , i have some that are still good at ten years old, my shop is in full sun all day , i put treated pole on each corner and spread the tarp 40x40 over the shop , drop the temps 15 to 20 degrees which helped alot , i use them on my fence around my property too , for privacy , dark green or black seems to work the best

@@georgevillarreal7592 Coming from Scotland, I only need such measures when on trips to warmer places. I would not enjoy living permanently in such conditions. I like occasional trips like the one to France, but generally I prefer a cooler climate.