Top recommendation for passive solar greenhouse book
Finding your suitable passive solar greenhouse book is not easy. You may need consider between hundred or thousand products from many store. In this article, we make a short list of the best passive solar greenhouse book including detail information and customer reviews. Let’s find out which is your favorite one.
Best passive solar greenhouse book
1. The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse
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Build your own passive solar greenhouse for year-round food production in any climate
Fresh, local nutrient-dense fruits vegetables are hard to find in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, and other perennials is nearly impossible using conventional structures. The solution for millions of backyard and small-scale commercial growers is self-heating solar greenhouses.
The Year-round Solar Greenhouse is the one-stop guide to designing and building greenhouses that harness and store energy from the sun to create naturally heated, lush growing environments even in the depths of winter, covering principles of solar greenhouse design and siting, glazing material properties and selection, controlling heat loss, ventilation, and construction methods. Additionally, an in-depth section covers sustainable ways of heating the greenhouse without fossil fuels, including using thermal mass and storing heat underground with a ground to air heat exchanger.
Variations include attached solar greenhouses, earth sheltered greenhouses, plus integrating hydroponics and aquaponics. More than a dozen case studies from across North America provide inspiration and demonstrate specific challenges and solutions for growing year-round in any climate.
Grow your own food, anytime, anywhere using the power of the sun!
2. The Passive Solar Energy Book: A Complete Guide to Passive Solar Home, Greenhouse and Building Design
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Provides comprehensive information on the design and application of passive solar-energy systems and assesses twenty-seven design patterns that offset a variety of factors influencing the effectiveness of solar heating3. The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse: Design, Construction, Operation
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Move your family toward self-sufficiency with The Food and Heat Producing Solar Greenhouse. This modern reprint contains the same priceless information that launched the solar-greenhouse revolution in the 1970s. From greenhouses improvised out of PVC pipe and Plexiglas, to big-budget, state-of-the-art structures, the design principles presented in this book apply to greenhouse projects in any setting with every budget. Inside you'll find...
- All the information you need to design, build, and operate a greenhouse that will add solar heat to your home and help you save on heating bills.
- A planting, maintenance, and harvesting procedure that will keep fresh, nutritious produce on your table all year.
- Examples of a variety of efficient greenhouse styles from all over the United States.
Growing your own food in a solar greenhouse is a healthy and rewarding way to eat better, save money, and minimize your carbon footprint. You'll cut down on food and energy costs for your family, and environmental costs for the planet.
Provides a good variety of design consideration and construction details plus critical sun-angle charts.-Sunset Magazine
...Where to look first...photographs of proven details and step-by-step instructions on both building and operation.-Co-Evolutionary Quarterly
Another great nuts-and-bolts book...Three years' work and the construction of over 60 greenhouses went into this guide and it shows...Food self-sufficiency? This book all by itself can put you and your family a long, long way down the road toward that goal.-Mother Earth News
4. Ted's Greenhouse: Creating a Four-Season Passive Solar Greenhouse From the Ground Up
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WINNER in the 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards in Home and Garden!! FINALIST in the 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards in Green Living!! If you have ever dreamed of growing your own vegetables and flowers year-round in a passive solar greenhouse, this is a book you will be interested in. The greenhouse described in this book provides the owners, neighbors, friends, and family with an amazing abundance of vegetables in all four seasons. Teds Greenhouse describes the process of building this 484 square foot passive solar polycarbonate greenhouse from the foundation to the finish. Included are chapters on passive solar design, siting the building, permits for the building, cost considerations, materials, and greenhouse coverings, with a special emphasis on the polycarbonate that is used to sheathe this building. A complete set of building plans is included, along with a description of the building process, step by step. While the book does describe one specific design, the plans could be adjusted to fit various budgets and situations. Also covered is information on how to use the greenhouse for plants. Chapters on soil, experiences with a variety of plants, pests and diseases, and how to heat and cool the greenhouse are included. The addendum adds reviews of various products that have been tried in this greenhouse, and resources that are available to the greenhouse grower. There is a materials list and a cost breakdown. Teds Greenhouse is an elegant, functional building that will add joy to your life and beauty to your property.5. The Passive Solar Dome Greenhouse Book
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This book describes how to build a passive solar dome from start to finish, allowing you to build one without special tools or equipment. The 23-foot diameter sturdy dome greenhouse is built with low cost but scientifically proven materials and is appropriate for virtually any sunlit site. Includes information on selecting a site, buying materials, costs, building smaller and larger domes, pre-heating water to reduce water bills, using the dome as a source for auxiliary home heat, assembly-line construction techniques, and growing vegetables to save money.6. The Biodome Garden Book: The only greenhouse design that needs no electrical ventilation or humidifying system.
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QUOTES FROM THOSE WHO KNOW:THE OPENING OF THE FIRST BIODOME GARDEN IN OTTAWA - AUGUST 27, 2014 "On August 17, 2014 the Brewer Park Community Garden (BPCG), situated across from Brewer Arena, celebrated the grand opening of Ottawa's first Biodome Garden project. To commemorate the day, the Park hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony along with an afternoon of events, including a barbecue and tours of the Biodome and gardens. When asked about the inspiration for the Biodome Garden, Oster credited the ever-enduring spirit of his co-project leader, Guy Souliere and the pages of Patricia Watters' book The Biodome Garden Book.
"The completion of the Biodome Garden marks an historic moment for Ottawa. The project is the first structure of its kind in Eastern Canada, making it an exciting achievement that sets a high standard and precedence for future similar structures to be built in the Region. As explained by those involved in the project, "Since its inception, the Biodome Garden has appreciated informal collaboration with both Carleton University and Algonquin College. The energy systems for air movement, fluid pumping and temperature modulation of the Biodome Garden form the thesis topic of a Carleton Masters Candidate, Paula Claudino. Recognizing that both Carleton and Algonquin value community collaboration and real-world research opportunities, the Biodome Garden is hoping to attract more formal partnerships with one or both partners." It is the hope of the Brewer Park Community Garden that this innovative project will be replicated many times in several different forms across the City and Ottawa Region. Its replication could shape the beginning of a much more healthy and sustainable food culture across Ottawa." --SPACING MAGAZINE
"Even before the advent of biodomes, experimentation had already begun with domed enclosures that could sustain year-round gardens. At the forefront was Patricia Watters, author of the "The Biodome Garden Book," the premier book on passive-solar biodome greenhouse gardening. When Watters constructed her first biodome garden 30 years ago, even the most forward-thinking gardening communities hadn't conceived of a solar-powered, weed- and pesticide-free, waist-level greenhouse capable of producing its own food (in the form of aquatic animals), which could, in turn, feed organically grown vegetables using minimal water." (WHOLE LIFE TIMES MAGAZINE)
"May as well start off with the most comprehensive food production system that I have ever come across. A wonderful lady named Patricia Watters has written a book on how to construct a system that not only produces produce, but also fish, (a great protein source) in an environment that does not require sprays or the traditional heating and electrical expenses associated with green house systems. The dome itself should fit into most back yards." (GEOFF LAWTON - PERMACULTURE INNOVATOR)
FOR PHOTOS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE BIODOME GARDEN PLEASE GO TO: biodomegarden.com
7. Low-Cost Passive Solar Greenhouses
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Details techniques for constructing each component of a solar greenhouse8. Solar Energy Fundamentals
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A compilation of decades of knowledge spanning the author's career as a mechanical engineer specializing in heat transfer and thermodynamics in the solar and aerospace industries, this book is instantly practicable. Topics include definitions of energy terms, relationship of the sun and earth, sunlight on the earth, heat transfer, solar collectors, absorbed solar energy, solar domestic hot water systems, solar photovoltaic systems, solar space heating, solar power towers, Stirling engine solar power systems, passive solar energy, and greenhouse solar collector. Appendices cover Carnot and Stirling Efficiency, mathematical techniques for solving heat transfer problems, and case studies.The bookincludes an Excel-based companion CD of computations for the reader to readily put the information in the book to practical use.
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