Short pieces for growers, students and anyone curious about how a greenhouse spends energy — written without the journal formatting. Three drafts are outlined below; the text is a starting point for you to rewrite in your own voice.
Screen manufacturers quote a single U-value. In practice, the saving depends on how the screen is deployed, how tight the gap at the edges is, and what the night sky is doing. A note on what we measured in the hot box versus what the simulation predicted.
Read the note →Insulate a northern greenhouse well enough and the binding constraint stops being heat and becomes light. What external reflectors can and cannot recover in a winter at 53° north.
Read the note →Widening a deadband by one degree can move a summer energy load more than a new piece of equipment. A short tour of the sensitivity analysis, and where machine learning genuinely helps.
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