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Build a net-zero energy greenhouse that pays for itself through energy savings and year-round food production. Complete construction plans and proven techniques for creating a solar-powered growing system that eliminates heating bills while providing fresh food 365 days a year.
Why Solar Greenhouses Outperform Heated Versions:
Traditional greenhouses consume massive energy for heating. This design captures and stores solar energy naturally, maintaining growing temperatures through the coldest months without ongoing costs.
What You'll Build:
- Energy-efficient design - architectural plans optimized for maximum solar gain
- Thermal mass systems - store heat naturally without expensive equipment
- Automated climate control - ventilation that responds to temperature changes
- Year-round growing systems - crop rotation for continuous harvests
- Cost-benefit analysis - ROI calculations showing 3-5 year payback
Real-World Results:
Greenhouse builders report 80% heating cost reductions, year-round growing capability in climates down to -20°F, and complete payback through energy savings and food production within 5 years.
Start your energy-independent growing system today. Everything you need to build, operate, and profit from solar greenhouse growing.
Build a net-zero energy greenhouse that pays for itself through energy savings and year-round food production. Complete construction plans and proven techniques for creating a solar-powered growing system that eliminates heating bills while providing fresh food 365 days a year.
Why Solar Greenhouses Outperform Heated Versions:
Traditional greenhouses consume massive energy for heating. This design captures and stores solar energy naturally, maintaining growing temperatures through the coldest months without ongoing costs.
What You'll Build:
- Energy-efficient design - architectural plans optimized for maximum solar gain
- Thermal mass systems - store heat naturally without expensive equipment
- Automated climate control - ventilation that responds to temperature changes
- Year-round growing systems - crop rotation for continuous harvests
- Cost-benefit analysis - ROI calculations showing 3-5 year payback
Real-World Results:
Greenhouse builders report 80% heating cost reductions, year-round growing capability in climates down to -20°F, and complete payback through energy savings and food production within 5 years.
Start your energy-independent growing system today. Everything you need to build, operate, and profit from solar greenhouse growing.
Lindsey Schiller studied conventional greenhouse design and management at the University of Arizona's Controlled Environmental Agriculture Center before delving deeply into solar greenhouse design. With co-author Marc Plinke, she founded Ceres Greenhouse Solutions to research, design and build energy-efficient year-round greenhouses. Lindsey lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Introduction
Section I: The Big Picture
1. What Is a Solar Greenhouse?
2. Growing Indoors: History and Future Trends
3. Planning for the Greenhouse
Section II: Designing and Building a Solar Greenhouse
4. Siting and Orientation
5. Controlling Light and Heat Gain: Glazing
6. Controlling Heat Loss: Insulation
7. Ventilation
8. Greenhouse Geometries
9. Greenhouse Construction Basics
10. Attached Greenhouses
11. Earth-sheltered Greenhouses
Section III: Heating and Cooling Methods
12. Passive Thermal Mass
13. Using the Earth for Heat Storage
14. Solar Hot Water
15. Rocket Mass Stoves and Compost Heaters
16. Powering the Greenhouse
Section IV: Growing in the Greenhouse
17. Creating the Greenhouse Environment
18. Aquaponics and Hydroponics
Appendix 1: Temperature Ranges of Common Greenhouse Crops
Appendix 2: Optimizing Glazing Angles
Appendix 3: Supplemental Lighting
Index
About the Authors
A Note About the Publisher
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2016 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Architektur |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780865718241 |
| ISBN-10: | 0865718245 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Schiller, Lindsey |
| Orchester: | Plinke, Marc |
| Hersteller: | New Society Publishers |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 223 x 185 x 20 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Lindsey Schiller |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 17.10.2016 |
| Gewicht: | 0,607 kg |
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