rick - question about greenhouse

Pia Jensen wrote:Awesome to read your experience and ideas. I'm thinking about a hot and cold air transference system at the base of the greenhouse framework. Current thinking and pics are here ... the wind is very regular and flows nicely under the back wall and into the house front door and crosses in front of the front door from the sides also. I plan to block that flow for winter heat trapping, but it will be very nice in the summer, I think, if I install a misting system sited over a "coco-husk" tube to act as a swamp cooler for moments at a time. I'm not thinking about energy requirements at the moment (plan for gravity feed water tank later)... I'm just interested in the mechanics of such a system. What do you think?

View from house under frame

I like evaporative cooling systems but they won't work in my environment because the outside humidity is too high in the summer...If you are in a more arid region it might work for you. The only problem is what creates the mist? If you need to provide power somehow, it may not be sustainable.

Rick Austin wrote:

I like evaporative cooling systems but they won't work in my environment because the outside humidity is too high in the summer...If you are in a more arid region it might work for you. The only problem is what creates the mist? If you need to provide power somehow, it may not be sustainable.

Rick Austin wrote:

I like evaporative cooling systems but they won't work in my environment because the outside humidity is too high in the summer...If you are in a more arid region it might work for you. The only problem is what creates the mist? If you need to provide power somehow, it may not be sustainable.