Easy points: Help with Greenhouse environmental project?????

Question

I am doing a project and I have to build a greenhouse and within that house have 20 things that contribute to energy savings.

Examples are

flourescent lights

solar panel

rain catcher

ceiling fans (cool off house w/o using thermo)

Vinyl windows

Curtains to block out heat

wind turbine outside to produce electricity

Etc

Please give me some more ideas. I cant think of anymore

Answer 1

here is a link to some great (some unusual) ways to save the planet and save money...

http://www.gomestic.com/Personal-Finance...

hope it helps!

Answer 2

Use CO2 because plants love it. Use triple pain windows to keep heat out and cold in. Use new turborcore chillers to make cool using less energy. Filter the incoming air to remove harmful pollution. Use sky lights to let the sun light in. use thermal storage in winter to hold the heat in-like rocks. Use this information to learn more about earth.

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight. The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small one all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

Answer 3

I agree with bipolar who answered your question on yahoo answers. Use C02

Answer 4

some of these answers are confusing greenhouse with Green House.

My suggestions would be using recycled pots, gray water reuse would be good if you run it through some good homemade charcoal filters, and most importantly COMPOSTING.

Answer 5

Greenhouse like a place you grow plants?  Or "green" house?

Fluorescent bulbs contain mercury.  So there's a tradeoff nobody is telling you about.

The process for making solar panels uses all kinds of poisons.  Another tradeoff.

Wind turbine is ok, depends how much wind you get.

Curtains let the sun in in winter and block it in summer.  Another good one.  There are also insulated blinds.

Here are my thoughts.  I have so few.

1)  Use no hazardous cleaning products.  Hint:  Just about everything they sell in the grocery store is hazardous.

2)  Recycle "gray" water for use on the garden.  That means shower water but not toilet water. If you've switched to non-toxic cleaners you can do this.

3)  Compost vegetable matter and paper instead of throwing it in the trash.

4)  Reuse plastic bottles, even the ones that can be recycled.

5)  Buy minimally packaged groceries.

6)  Reuse the plastic bags that you get off the roll in the vegetable dept.

7)  Geothermic heat pump - this is NOT the thing that the heater makers are calling a heat pump.  It goes deep into the ground.

8)  Heat water with the sun - a system of black plastic pipes on the roof.

9)  Use hand-operated appliances and garden tools.

10)  Install light switches that turn off the lights when nobody is in the room - small thing.

11)  Buy a smaller refrigerator next time.

12)  Use a thermostat with a built-in timer to automatically use less energy when you aren't home.

13)  Set up an exercise bike or treadmill with a generator to power the TV.

Answer 6

Can you put a tree outside your house? the tree will provide shade in the summer which will save on air conditioning...

put a dog in your house.. every house should have a dog..