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Vertical Goodness and Other Batshit Craziness
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I used a hanging shoe rack before.
It served the purpose. lol
ttystikk
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Everyone keeps asking me how I keep the pots from falling over lol
They're all sitting in a tray lol
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They look pretty happy with life.
I switched up the lighting from a spread pattern 180W LED to an LED with the same wattage but with only two COB LED lights right next to one another, giving a much more concentrated spotlight. This had the effect of easily doubling the light pressure on the seedlings.
Twenty four hours later, it's looking to me like they like the bump;
I switched up the lighting from a spread pattern 180W LED to an LED with the same wattage but with only two COB LED lights right next to one another, giving a much more concentrated spotlight. This had the effect of easily doubling the light pressure on the seedlings.
Twenty four hours later, it's looking to me like they like the bump;
ttystikk
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@Tvanmunhen I just noticed the same username between here and RIU. Rollitup sucks.
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I have an idea; equipment! Anyone ever heard of CHP = Combined Heat and Power?
This is a well established greenhouse tech in the Netherlands, not so much here in the States. It's been tried in residential home settings and to some extent in larger commercial facilities but hasn't achieved much penetration.
Here's what it is; you run a generator to generate electricity. You use some or all of it and feed the rest into the grid, presumably for some kind of compensation from the utility. The heat from this generator is used to heat the facility. The smaller residential units I've seen also had a semi hermetic compressor on the output shaft that ran the AC. It had a clutch so it ran on demand. This is already pretty cool stuff- but wait, there's more!
Water jacket heat from the generator and exhaust heat are both heat sources and can be used to heat the building, do some low heat process work and heat the hot water tank. I suspect that the excess heat could also be used in an absorption cooler, and I want to test it. This would get FREE COOLING from the energy otherwise escaping out the exhaust!
And holy shit, there's even more! Turns out that you can pass that very exhaust through a couple of scrubbers; selective catalytic reduction addresses NOx emissions and oxidation scrubbers are used to treat carbon monoxide. Caterpillar does it with diesel and natural gas generators. Then you get CO2 that's safe to feed into the greenhouse or grow facility.
I think there's a market for a smaller self contained unit that could do all these things and provide the facility with backup power and heat in case of a power outage.
This is a well established greenhouse tech in the Netherlands, not so much here in the States. It's been tried in residential home settings and to some extent in larger commercial facilities but hasn't achieved much penetration.
Here's what it is; you run a generator to generate electricity. You use some or all of it and feed the rest into the grid, presumably for some kind of compensation from the utility. The heat from this generator is used to heat the facility. The smaller residential units I've seen also had a semi hermetic compressor on the output shaft that ran the AC. It had a clutch so it ran on demand. This is already pretty cool stuff- but wait, there's more!
Water jacket heat from the generator and exhaust heat are both heat sources and can be used to heat the building, do some low heat process work and heat the hot water tank. I suspect that the excess heat could also be used in an absorption cooler, and I want to test it. This would get FREE COOLING from the energy otherwise escaping out the exhaust!
And holy shit, there's even more! Turns out that you can pass that very exhaust through a couple of scrubbers; selective catalytic reduction addresses NOx emissions and oxidation scrubbers are used to treat carbon monoxide. Caterpillar does it with diesel and natural gas generators. Then you get CO2 that's safe to feed into the greenhouse or grow facility.
I think there's a market for a smaller self contained unit that could do all these things and provide the facility with backup power and heat in case of a power outage.
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What is the cost for a combined heat and power unit for 700 square foot home.
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I am all for reducing my carbon footprint.
www.energy.gov
Combined Heat and Power Basics
Combined Heat and Power, or Cogeneration, is the simultaneous generation of electricity and heat for useful purposes.
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I'd have to go hunt that up; there was a company in Texas selling them.
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THAT'S really cool; Yanmar has been building boat engines for generations so they would be a very trustworthy name.