Hi Everyone:
Just to
answer some questions.
The greenhouse is 60' long by 17' wide.
We only dug down about 2 feet rather than 4, because our water table is so high. Instead we put 1 foot thick styrofoam insulation 8 feet wide all around the greenhouse, covered with about 1 foot of soil, so it is well insulated.
The passive geothermal is just 10 pipes (4" non-perforated, corrugated pipes) buried in a 250' loop, 8 feet deep, with both ends emerging inside the greenhouse and a blower on top of one end. The idea is to circulate that air through for cooling in summer and heating in winter. Unfortunately the pipes have all failed – we are not sure if they got crushed or cracked by the weight of soil and water seeped in or condensation built up, but we have been unsuccessful at pumping them out, so no air is circulating through them at this point.
I think I still have an old Franklin wood stove kicking around somewhere, maybe I can make use of that somehow, instead of a barrel?
I did order the Wisner's book.