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Would it be a beneficial to use a wire mesh for the air inlet/drain in the greenhouse floor? I feel like smaller insects might still get through with just the plastic cover?
Unfortunately I forgot about Cody the past year or 2 but as I was in the Northern mountains of Utah, I had a thought about Cody. I am happy he is still creating content. thank you for the many years of content from the years prior.
If you get a hybrid inverter, some solar panels and a few car batteries, you should have no issues with putting a few LED plant lights into that container. That would be close to 100% what people would do away from earth.
If you bury those large tanks(easier said than done I know) you can use the earth as a heat sink, and keep things at that temp year round, cooling and heating. Thats what geothermal heat pumps do.
Definitely cover the pipes. Even if it's just shading them. White or no, at your altitude you are getting around 800 watts per square meter of solar insolation and if even 10% of that is being converted to heat in your pipes that's considerable.
I was NOT expecting you to say "molasses" as the original contents of the containers. I can see it now. "Hey guys, welcome back to ChickenHole Base, I got some uses containers here. Originally they were filled with molasses. Now, I did have to get rid of the molasses somewhere, so for now I just dumped it into a pit about 200 yards to the west there. Unfortunately I noticed that it gained sentience sometime during the night, so I'll be keeping an eye on it, but it shouldn't be able to get too far, hopefully."
My dude -.- why have you not learned to add acid to water than water to acid yet? Stumbled across your video and I can only say you need a disclaimer before someone claims to have followed after your practices. Them seriously injured equals you seriously liable. Proceed with caution sir.
I love how Cody always has a blow torch ready at hand like many people do with a pocket knife. "Hey bud, you got a light?" ... "I sure do sir! <screaming blow torch noise>".
addding a fan in the green house would increase the heat transfer rate and mixing which would help with a more even heat profile across the green house.
Why don't you get an arduino thermometer/hygrometer set up inside the greenhouse? You could get cool graphs from it, not to mention a lot more and more accurate data, and it would barely consume any energy.
Hey Cody, Ive been building a greenhouse for about a year now and had issues with heating during the winter. It might be worth your while to look into building parabolic reflector water heater/boilers. The manufacturing process is fairly simple and seems like the type of project you'd be good at, and heating would otherwise use up a lot of your energy (I have a fairly small greenhouse and even then it would take about a full car battery's wattage to heat it from 20-70f through just resistive heating). They would also fit your environment quite well since you still get a lot of sun during the winter. I'm currently designing a loop and I'm building it to work like a bubble pump, requiring no external electricity/complexity.
PVC piping tip: You're doing some things because you're not sure if the pipe layout is final. I recommend to stop using PVC couplings (to join pipe lengths together), and switch entirely to PVC unions instead. These are as strong as coupling but will basically turn your piping into a LEGO set. This way all your inputs, outputs, and pipelines are easily taken apart or rearranged at any time for any reason, anything that needs to changed you can easily swap out just that section that needs to change. It makes modifications and repairs so much easier. Some brands of union are interchangeable with each other, but ideally you want to pick a brand and use it for everything so that you know that any of your pipe sections can be connected to any other pipe section. A union does cost 3x as much as coupling but I've found that to be a bargain next to the time saved down the road (especially with the scarcity of supplies at CHB)
