Replying to Avatar Dissident Sound

the amount of solar gain would depend on surface area of skylights and the amount of insulation in the house. with small skylights and thin insulation you would not gain a lot of temperature. but if your entire roof is made out of glass and it's something like quadruple pane glass filled with krypton gas and your other walls are a foot of insulation and your floor is painted black you would probably be able to hit 100+ degrees inside when it is freezing outside with nothing but sunlight as a heat source.

cooling passively would be more difficult but not impossible. for example in NYC area ( where i am ) deep ground well temperature is about 53F so with a vertical ground loop system you could tap into that 53F when it's 95F outside for some passive cooling ... if you covered your roof and walls with mirrors

it's all possible the question is only at which point does it become ridiculous ...

i'm just opposed to people who do NOTHING and then demand we build more nuclear reactors.

reminds me of a fat guy who was demanding that children are vaxxed for COVID beause he was in a risk group for dying from it ... yeah mate maybe YOU should put down the spoon, rather than making kids take the vax when they are at zero risk from COVID and YOU are.

anyway it is not our job to tell Klaus Schwab HOW to maintain our standard of living. our job is to MURDER anybody who tells us that our standard of living ( but not their standard of living ) should go down to save the planet.

let Klaus figure out what the right mix of green technologies should be. whether it is solar, wind or nuclear or coal - i don't really care.

i'm just opposed to people who LEGITIMIZE THE SCAM of "global warming" by proposing nuclear as "the solution"

solution TO WHAT ???

Klaus doesn't have a clue. We know Klaus doesn't have a clue. Klaus knows we know Klaus doesn't have a clue. And Klaus doesn't care.

Except for the last bit, this is Govt 101.

Some governments are getting out of the way at least a little so that people can use fission to make energy for other people.

They are the smart ones - taxpayers whos lights are on are less likely to start burning things.

Re your glass - CAPEX is not costless, and I can see many sources of fragility in your plan. But simpler forms of it can work well during daylight hours. I have a friend who plans to add a commercial-size plastic greenhouse to her modified reefer container tiny home that she lives in on a mountainside, very interested in how well it works. I can confirm reefer containers are ridiculously effectively insulated even with doors and windows.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

my gated community has two swimming pools - "indoor" and outdoor.

the "Indoor" pool is actually covered only by a plastic greenhouse, so it's basically outdoor except i went swimming there two days ago and it was toasty warm while the artificial lake right next to it was FROZEN.

in summer they open windows in that greenhouse to cool it down.

it does have an HVAC but i'm not sure it actually needs it.

granted, target air temperature for a swimming pool is about 90F versus 75F for a residence so cooling a greenhouse to 75F will definitely be more challenging than to 90F ... but heating is not an issue

you only need glass on sides facing where the sun is in winter. in fact it is recommended to NOT have glass on sides facing where the sun is in summer. if you simply position glass correctly and insulate properly you may not need anything else at all.

the roof of the pool greenhouse is plastic which is translucent but not transparent - to reduce the harshness of the sun, an also to save weight.

the walls are clear glass for the views.

it looks similar to image below, but larger and with a separate hot tub:

when i first saw it i was skeptical it would work in our cold climate here in US North-East but it works perfectly. i under-estimated the greenhouse effect. it seems to easily overcome the relative lack of insulation.