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The Chinese greenhouse : design and build a low-cost, passive solar greenhouse /
"The Chinese Greenhouse is the only complete guide to designing, building, and operating high-performance, earth-sheltered, solar-heated, intelligently glazed, and insulated passive greenhouses, allowing you to grow a variety of vegetables year-round--even in cold climates--in soil or aquaponic...
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| Format: | Online Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gabriola Island, BC :
New Society Publishers,
[2020]
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| Access: | Online version |
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Table of Contents:
- My introduction to Chinese greenhouses
- What's wrong with conventional greenhouses?
- What makes the Chinese greenhouse so special?
- Building a Chinese greenhouse : site selection, excavation, and drainage
- Thermal mass, framing, glazing, and insulation
- Improving performance : daytime internal heat banking
- Improving performance : daily heat banking with a solar hot air system
- Improving performance : daily heat banking with solar hot water systems
- Improving performance : long-term (seasonal) heat banking
- Battling the heat : summertime production
- Getting it right : designing climate batteries
- Supplementing solar input : LED lighting
- Building my Chinese greenhouse : a pictorial documentary.