Living in a greenhouse
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Imagine building a big greenhouse, large enough to contain a house and a lot of trees and bushes, using the technology from the Eden project (http://www.edenproject.com[^]). Get some palm trees, parrots, butterflies etc and keep it tropical all year round. Keep it air tight, the oxygen will be created by the plants. Dont waste money on building a house inside. Hey it won't ever rain, get windy or cold, why not just build a floor with no walls for the furniture. Or sleep in the grass! To save money on heating the place, bury a giant highly isolated watertank below the ground, and heat it during the summer through a heatpump that chills the air (or else it will probably get painfully hot inside the greenhouse), and do the reverse in the winter to heat up the greenhouse. Seems this technology is available. Check out http://www.vector-foiltec.com/[^]. I wonder about the price for ETFE foils though. I'm getting tired about the long cold winters up here in Sweden. Regards, Björn Morén Stockholm, Sweden
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Imagine building a big greenhouse, large enough to contain a house and a lot of trees and bushes, using the technology from the Eden project (http://www.edenproject.com[^]). Get some palm trees, parrots, butterflies etc and keep it tropical all year round. Keep it air tight, the oxygen will be created by the plants. Dont waste money on building a house inside. Hey it won't ever rain, get windy or cold, why not just build a floor with no walls for the furniture. Or sleep in the grass! To save money on heating the place, bury a giant highly isolated watertank below the ground, and heat it during the summer through a heatpump that chills the air (or else it will probably get painfully hot inside the greenhouse), and do the reverse in the winter to heat up the greenhouse. Seems this technology is available. Check out http://www.vector-foiltec.com/[^]. I wonder about the price for ETFE foils though. I'm getting tired about the long cold winters up here in Sweden. Regards, Björn Morén Stockholm, Sweden
Didn't somebody already do this - the project was called "Biosphere 2" and populated with new age hippies. Unfortunately they were so full of hot air that it eventually failed... (Actually they had forgotten that cement absorbs large amounts of CO2, but I like my explanation...) '--8<------------------------ Ex Datis: Duncan Jones Merrion Computing Ltd
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Imagine building a big greenhouse, large enough to contain a house and a lot of trees and bushes, using the technology from the Eden project (http://www.edenproject.com[^]). Get some palm trees, parrots, butterflies etc and keep it tropical all year round. Keep it air tight, the oxygen will be created by the plants. Dont waste money on building a house inside. Hey it won't ever rain, get windy or cold, why not just build a floor with no walls for the furniture. Or sleep in the grass! To save money on heating the place, bury a giant highly isolated watertank below the ground, and heat it during the summer through a heatpump that chills the air (or else it will probably get painfully hot inside the greenhouse), and do the reverse in the winter to heat up the greenhouse. Seems this technology is available. Check out http://www.vector-foiltec.com/[^]. I wonder about the price for ETFE foils though. I'm getting tired about the long cold winters up here in Sweden. Regards, Björn Morén Stockholm, Sweden
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have winter periods with almost no sun at all? How would your habitat house deal with that? Other than that, it sounds kind of intriguing ! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have winter periods with almost no sun at all? How would your habitat house deal with that? Other than that, it sounds kind of intriguing ! ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
It's not that bad here in Stockholm. Worst days (end of december) we got about 6 hours of sun. It's way worse up north were the sun never rises for the whole of december. On the other hand it never sets for the whole of june. So I think it would work for the palm trees and other stuff. Another issue is heating such a giant structure with only 6 hours of sun and with -15 degrees celsius for months. I think it requires multilayered foil cushions like in the Eden project to get good insulation, and a lot of accumulated energy in water tanks from the summer period. I once visited such a place. Well not a greenhouse, but some regular houses that got their entire heating energy from a dug down tank reserve. It lasted the whole winter. In the summer, sun rays heated water and a heat pump multiplied it into the tank. Regards, Björn Morén Stockholm, Sweden
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Imagine building a big greenhouse, large enough to contain a house and a lot of trees and bushes, using the technology from the Eden project (http://www.edenproject.com[^]). Get some palm trees, parrots, butterflies etc and keep it tropical all year round. Keep it air tight, the oxygen will be created by the plants. Dont waste money on building a house inside. Hey it won't ever rain, get windy or cold, why not just build a floor with no walls for the furniture. Or sleep in the grass! To save money on heating the place, bury a giant highly isolated watertank below the ground, and heat it during the summer through a heatpump that chills the air (or else it will probably get painfully hot inside the greenhouse), and do the reverse in the winter to heat up the greenhouse. Seems this technology is available. Check out http://www.vector-foiltec.com/[^]. I wonder about the price for ETFE foils though. I'm getting tired about the long cold winters up here in Sweden. Regards, Björn Morén Stockholm, Sweden
Ha! Having lived in Northern Canada just off the Alaska highway through many -40c winters I have had the same dream. I seriously contemplated many times the potential of covering the entire city of Fort St. John in a giant clear dome. Fortunately I did the practical thing and simply moved to Vancouver Island in the ever-mild pacific ocean. I'm still fascinated with the idea though, keep the dream alive!!