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Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
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Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would it be humid? Heat doesn't cause humidity. Deserts can be hot and dry. (Edited are to can be for the pedantic people.)
Deserts aren’t necessarily hot, they just have very little water.
They have little precipitation. There's plenty of ice in the Antarctic.
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#103Cool, I've visited this house! It's located just a few kilometers from where I grew up. Small correction to the article though: it's quite feasible to grow tomatoes and cucumber without a greenhouse in summer in Sweden.
> it's quite feasible to grow tomatoes and cucumber without a greenhouse in summer in Sweden.
Conversely, it's quite difficult to grow them in the City of San Francisco, especially the Western half, in the summer.
Some people have success with a special variety called a fog tomato, but in general, the northern California coastal fog zone ain't no place for a tomato growing, only tomato eating.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I imagine it's not much different from a regular residential greenhouse, in which case the plan is to throw a sufficient number of cats in there.
Not sure people in glass houses should be throwing cats. Mine would love that environment I’m sure though.
They are somewhat softer than stones, but yes, cat throwing is rarely called for.
My mother has a decent sized greenhouse. Her cats spend most of the winter in there by choice - they love it.
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#105I've thought about building a house in a barn to save on heating/cooling (Texas, it's dadgum hot here). But this is much much cooler (or warmer, if you're in Sweden)!
You might like Matt Risinger's YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger . He's a builder in the Austin area who does very energy efficient homes. He uses (a variation of?) this thing called a "100-year wall" system, the gist of which is that the entire envelope of the house is sheathed and sealed, basically turning the frame of the house into "furniture," in that it's in a conditioned space. The big…
Matt Risinger's show is great. I think it's awesome how he brings high performance low energy footprint home building ideas to audiences that might not otherwise be exposed to them.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Deserts aren’t necessarily hot, they just have very little water.
They have little precipitation. There's plenty of ice in the Antarctic.
Are you sure about that? A river delta could be completely lush without any precipitation, but I don’t think that’d be a desert.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
They have little precipitation. There's plenty of ice in the Antarctic.
Are you sure about that? A river delta could be completely lush without any precipitation, but I don’t think that’d be a desert.
From the link someone else already provided:
Most polar deserts are covered in ice sheets, ice fields, or ice caps.
(I'm getting a chuckle out of the multiple layers of pedantry here.)
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Why would it be humid? The hotter air is, the higher its capacity to hold water vapor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PsychrometricChart.SeaLev...
Which actually drop relative humidity, because water does not magically appear.
Dry cold air gets in during the winter, it expands and the RH goes down, warm humid air escapes, more dry cold air gets in, creating an extremely dry environment. Still you can get mold because of condensation when warm air meets cold rooftop.
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#110This house was the subject of a Kirsten Dirksen video in 2015: https://youtube.com/watch?v=30ghnDOFbNQ
So strange to see that channel recommended here. It's full of unusual and interesting things.