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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on April 08, 2011, 05:43:23 PM
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chillspike Donating Member (714 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Apr-03-11 08:59 AM
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Can a greenhouse be made livable for people?
I mean, the greenhouses we normally use for growing plants? Is there a way to completely control the temperature with the right shading so people can live comfortably in a greenhouse with no danger of over heating or extreme humidity? I would like to experiment with this somewhere in the tri-state area...NY, NJ, Penn.
I would prevent the loss of heat at night with an electric or gas heater.
I ask because I think a greenhouse would be a great structure for free heating in the winter but only if it can be kept cool enough on hot days. And some of the better models are a lot cheaper than passive solar houses. Am I right?
P.S. I would like to have some shading, passive cooling and ventilation suggestions because I don't think I will have electric air conditioning.
Thanks.
silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Apr-04-11 01:59 PM
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1. I don't see why not.
The hoop house style has end doors that could be left open for through-and-through ventilation on hot days (with a fan or 2), and you could also try using retractable shade cloth on the outside during hot weather.
Actually, with a little creativity, I think a hoop house greenhouse could be made quite livable.
Good luck! If you do it, share some pictures.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=353x3141
Later responses do point out some of the flaws in this plan. :-)
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I think they made a movie about that once.
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/biodome-box_hires_cd.jpg)
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chillspike Donating Member (714 posts) Sun Apr-03-11 08:59 AM
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Can a greenhouse be made livable for people?
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I would prevent the loss of heat at night with an electric or gas heater.
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This is why these people should never be allowed to participate in running any form of economy.
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All this talk about evil greenhouse gasses 'killin' da earf' and this bozo wants to live inside one. So what is it DUmmy ? Fatal, or not ?
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Either the most ironic post ever or a superb moling adventure.
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So anyway, I was watching Ken Burns's "The Civil War" the other night, and it mentioned that immediately after the war, the market for photos of soldiers and battlefields completely collapsed. To make ends meet, countless war photographers sold thousands and thousands of glass plate negatives to be used in greenhouses, where the sun quickly burned off their images. It's awful to think of how much historic record was lost. Kind of like how the English used ground up Egyptian mummies to make paper and bogus medicine.
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People live in the tropics, right?
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People live in the tropics, right?
Damn right we do !
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Can we make a rule that anybody who lives in a house with all glass walls has to be really hot? :naughty:
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It'll never work, DUmmies above all others are notorious stone throwers....Jus' sayin'
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Go for it DUmmie....hopefully you'll freeze to death the first winter trying to heat that thing with a Chinese WAL-MART electric heater.
DUmmie absolutely doesn't know anything about greenhouses and what an energy sink they are.
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DUmmie absolutely doesn't know anything
FIXORD!!!