Sustainable Solar Greenhouse
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Food sub-categories: Agroecology, Food security, Food sovereignty
Description: This greenhouse is off-grid and it grows tomato plants all winter in Rhode Island. We only used R-10 insulation because we didn't need anything better. I suppose that you could live in it, but I have other ideas for that. The secret is reflecting five flat mirror reflections at the center of the line of windows. We have to pull on the ropes and adjust the focus about once a week in March, or once a month in December. klinkmansolar.com/greenhouses.htm Also at the site, stored solar heat for buildings to be used in combination with a mini split heat pump, Ways to store solar heat for electricity generation after dark, A zip line transit system that should be 90% more lifetime energy-efficient per passenger-mile than current freeways, A way to restore the Arctic ice pack so that we don't have an Arctic meltdown, which would drive greenhouse gas levels to about 1200 ppm if unchecked. I'm a rather comprehensive climate change inventor.
Website about this solution: klinkmansolar.com/greenhouses.htm
Why I love this solution: It's possibly the world's first negative-carbon building.