hmm, I believe I have that book but it's called "Passive solar energy book" by Edward Mazria copyright 1979 Rodale Press. ISBN 0-87857-238-4
starting p289, there is a lot of info on thermal storage wall systems and spaces adjacent to an attached greenhouse. One of the better earlier books but some of his ideas were later discredited for being insufficient in colder climates. <tallex> > -------Original Message------- > From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] greenhouse farming > Sent: 01 Dec '10 16:46 > > I can't find any record of a book called "Passive solar heating" > published by Rodale (or anybody else) at Rodale, Amazon, ABE or > Alibris. There are a couple of books published by Chelsea Green and > Elsevier with "passive solar" in the title, but they're focused on > homes, not greenhouses. Are you sure it's called "Passive solar > heating"? Can you provide a url? > > Keith > > > >If you built a heliostat field with a concentration of say 10 and made the > >greenhouse an insulated building except for the window receiving the > >light from > >the heliostats you could reduce supplementary heating tremendously. > >The wall on > >the far side should be reflective. Window is of course at focal point of > field > >and should be low iron glass. Even a building such as the passive > >solar rooms as > >in Rodale press book "Passive solar heating" with a tilt out > >reflector which is > >insulated on the back so when it is closed at night heat loss is > >more comparable > >to a regular house would save tremendous amounts of heat. > > > >Look into PAR lamps for cloudy days. (Photosynthetically Available > Radiation) > > > _______________________________________________ > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ >Search-View 1000's of Alternative Energy+Related Green Tech Videos http://www.alternate-energy.net/sb/vids/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
