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Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by loeg »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #32
tribler wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks great. 80k investment to go from 9 months of heating to 6 months. Expensive project, wonder if solar would have yielded more in the north.

Isn't a green house a solar collector in some way? They get their heat from the sun, and their main mechanism is simply trapping it in a closed environment.

I think the parent commenter meant to imply buying $80k of solar panels.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by loeg »

otachack wrote: post #4
jorblumesea wrote: post #3

How much snow do they get? Seems like it would be serious work to make sure ice and snow didn't pile up or bring down the greenhouse.

Does the warmth of a traditional greenhouse melt snow from the roof?

The roof isn't flat, so you don't need to melt all the snow. Just the thin layer at the bottom that makes contact with the glass, and the rest should slide off.

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samstave wrote: post #116
cwkoss wrote: post #57

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I can't recommend Kirsten Dirksen's channel enough to people interested in architecture, energy efficiency, tiny homes, 'green' construction, etc. Literally hundreds of hours of high-quality content - I'm really curious how she is able to find all of these interesting people who are doing such cool things. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDsElQQt_gCZ9LgnW-7v-cQ Some other favorites: Baubotanik shapes living…

I want to take two tesla motors, which according to the tesla tear-down, cost $750 each, then take (2) battery packs - place these into the base as a powertrain to a 20’ unit(s) stacked two tall, such that you have a two-story “tiny-home” which can be moved with ease... Make it draped with solars which can be pushed out as A-frame or other configs. And all of this can be done for This is my goal.

Cool idea. 20' might be hard to transport... I think a lot of overpasses only clear 13ish feet. You might think about designing a mechanism to lower the roof for transportation.

Check out this crazy transforming mobile tiny house https://youtu.be/CnHGKUh-5O4

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by aasasd »

pvaldes wrote: post #78
jhloa2 wrote: post #6

I wonder if this has a negative effect on the amount of fresh air that they get

Fresh air is created by plants and CO2 is taken from the air by plants, a greenhouse has plants so... probably a good amount of oxigen there Molds are a problem and there is another, for rodents, mosquitos and cockroaches this is a dream made true. Spiders can take mosquitos easily, but the other two will need a plan

The plan: https://i.imgur.com/XcJSDlE.jpg

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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Post by aasasd »

mayormcmatt wrote: post #26

This reminds me of an apartment complex I saw last year, also in Sweden (north of Stockholm, in Norrtälje). Hard to see inside, but it's practically tropical, with palm trees and flowering plants, and all doors of resident's apartments let out into the garden. https://goo.gl/maps/C7QAYeFm4bc9X28r9

There's an entire year-round indoor beach with bungalows and a small forest near Berlin: https://www.tropical-islands.de/en/

Better photos e.g. here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236995/The-worlds-...

I'm sure it needs plenty of energy, but I'd also bet the glass dome plays its role.

Found it online when was again thinking about how to live through the northern winter.

Re: Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home

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WJW wrote: post #59
eecc wrote: post #46

And in Amsterdam - of all places, the capital of one the countries most threatened by rising sea levels - the idiots keep gas fired terrace warmers burning at full blast. Cycling through the city feels like the deck of the Titanic. :S

We'll build the dikes another few metres taller. Shrug...

So the Dutch will survive the warming and they already know how to grow boatloads of veggies on the scraps of land. (Afaik the second place in export of vegs isn't just from the flowers.)
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