Tuesday, November 20, 2007

2 weeks later...

I umm... guess i should update the blog more often.

I have a very specific direction now. To allow a greenhouse to operate later into the season, and to begin earlier by reducing heat loss from forced convection and by gathering light from a greater area (especially low angle light)

Forced convection is air moving rapidly over a surface, quickly taking all the heat from it. Its like when you blow on your hot soup, but if you had arctic wind as breath. It can be a large factor in costs.

I plan to gather light by reflecting it from a large cheap mirror. I plan to use aluminized polyester that has been set into a specially shaped solid transparent surface.

mesh or block?

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