| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file rda |
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Includes index. |
| Access |
Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization. star CaOONL |
| Summary |
"The Chinese Greenhouse is the only complete guide to designing, building, and operating high-performance, earth-sheltered, solar-heated, intelligently glazed, and insulated passive greenhouses, allowing you to grow a variety of vegetables year-round--even in cold climates--in soil or aquaponic grow beds."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 24, 2020). |
| Contents |
My introduction to Chinese greenhouses -- What's wrong with conventional greenhouses? -- What makes the Chinese greenhouse so special? -- Building a Chinese greenhouse : site selection, excavation, and drainage -- Thermal mass, framing, glazing, and insulation -- Improving performance : daytime internal heat banking -- Improving performance : daily heat banking with a solar hot air system -- Improving performance : daily heat banking with solar hot water systems -- Improving performance : long-term (seasonal) heat banking -- Battling the heat : summertime production -- Getting it right : designing climate batteries -- Supplementing solar input : LED lighting -- Building my Chinese greenhouse : a pictorial documentary. |
| Subject |
Solar greenhouses -- Design and construction.
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Solar greenhouses -- Heating and ventilation.
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Solar greenhouses.
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solar greenhouses.
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Solar greenhouses (OCoLC)fst01125072
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Solar greenhouses -- Design and construction
(OCoLC)fst01125073
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chiras, Forrest, illustrator.
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Rao, Anil, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Design and build a low-cost, passive solar greenhouse |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Chiras, Daniel D. Chinese greenhouse. Gabriola Island, BC, Canada : New Society Publishers, 2020 0865719292 9780865719293 (OCoLC)1144093305 |
| ISBN |
9781771423175 (EPUB) |
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177142317X (EPUB) |
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9781550927214 (PDF) |
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1550927213 (PDF) |
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