SolaRoof | Solar Greenhouse

A solar greenhouse has never existed until the emergence of the Sola Roof Greenhouse. I say this because previous greenhouses require a whole lot of energy to maintain the climate steady and create what is called a Controlled Environment. The present methods use boilers and steam or hot water heat distribution or furnaces for heating air that is recirculated in the greenhouse. Forced ventilation, sometimes with evaporative cooling is used for cooling together with curtain systems for shading.

Our very different approach is presented by Harvey Rayner in these great graphics at solarbubblebuild.com. - please refer to this site while our Gallery is not opperational - but I hope for some new improvement soon.

The Sola Roof Greenhouse has the heating and cooling processes built into the transparent building envelope to collect, use and reject (cooling) solar energy. These Liquid Solar Tech processes include the Bubble Tech system which greatly reduces the tendency of a transparent building envelope to overheat or chill very quickly. These systems do require a small amount of electrical power for pumps and blower operation (for Bubble Generation) and this energy use has a COP of 20 for cooling and 40 for heating, which means that our solar greenhouse uses only 5% and 2.5% of the normal consumption for cooling and heating, respectively. Such low energy reqirements can be supplied on a renewable basis from conversion of Bio Mass? into Bio Fuel or from Photo Voltaic systems that can be integrated into areas (less than 5%) of the roof.

There are many types of solar greenhouses applications that can use Sola Roof Tech. Our community will develop practical, "how to" guides to building and operating all versions of Sola Roof Projects.

These applications below are priorities that deserve detailed description and ongoing development in Wiki Chapters?(pages that are linked by an Wiki Index? also known as Wiki Trails):

all the gallery links below are down - (4/12/10)repairs coming soon

1. BackYard and LeanTo structures
2. Tunnel Greenhouse (sorry gallery is down) structures for serious personal and small scale Commercial Grower applications.
3. Double Tunnel Greenhouse structures (sorry gallery is down) solar greenhouses as built by Batu Now of South Korea for home and commercial applications
4. WideSpan for large projects and Commercial Grower applications
5. SpaceFrame systems for combined use such as a "home & garden"

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