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Integrated Greenhouse Project Phase 0 (2003/4) SEEDA 2003 Seed funding - £40k

Integrating Systems – Forget the Theory, What About the Practice Greening the Greenhouse: Designing a Carbon Neutral Future – 2 nd April 2008.

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Integrated Greenhouse Project Phase 0 (2003/4) SEEDA 2003 Seed funding - £40k

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  1. Integrating Systems – Forget the Theory, What About the PracticeGreening the Greenhouse: Designing a Carbon Neutral Future – 2nd April 2008

  2. Creating a sustainability experience, connecting global and local issues & promoting sustainable ways of living to safeguard future communities and ecosystems

  3. Integrated Greenhouse Project Phase 0 (2003/4)SEEDA 2003Seed funding - £40k GreenSys 2004Established partnerships with Professor Gerard Bot and team at Wageningen University, and the renewable energy team at TV Energy

  4. Integrated Greenhouse ProjectPhase 1 (2005/6)Human Impact Building (ReDiscover/Millennium Commission) Purpose: To demonstrate sustainable low-carbon greenhouse design, integrated with other buildings

  5. Our Heating Journey… from fossil fuel to local wood chip CO2 emissions per unit of energy supplied 450 400 350 Woodfuelled heat 300 Wind power Grams of CO2 per kWh 250 Solar PV m-si Solar PV p-Si 200 Natural gas heating 150 Light fuel oil heating 100 50 0 ... the first public indoor rainforest garden to convert to wood chip heating

  6. Integrated Greenhouse ProjectPhase 2 (2007/8)Green Greenhouse / Vertical Soil Heat Exchanger (VSHE)

  7. Integrated Greenhouse ProjectPhase 2 (2007/8)Green Greenhouse / Vertical Soil Heat Exchanger (VSHE) The ProblemUnsustainable food/crop production in energy-wasteful greenhouses, using non-renewable energyLack of integration of greenhouses with associated buildings for improved energy managementLack of investment in low-carbon footprint greenhousesConfusion about what is best practice for producers and consumers

  8. Greening the Greenhouse:“so much for the theory” • integration part I • continuity of supply • how big is your bunker? • Infinity and beyond, integration part II • No questions please, wait for the workshop ;^)

  9. Greening the Greenhouse:“so much for the theory” • integration part I • If demand < capacityBiomB = happiness • If demand > capacityOilB = happiness • If demand > capB < capO = disquiet! • put both devices ‘behind’ the buffer? • discuss…remember the workshop

  10. Greening the Greenhouse:“so much for the theory” • In conclusion… • We’re proud of our biomass boiler • We’re going to make it work • Bring on the GSHP! • If we knew then what we knew now … • Workshop anyone?

  11. Thank you!Please contact us if you have any questions. Integrated Greenhouse Project The Living Rainforest Hampstead Norreys Berkshire RG18 0TN Karl Hansen, Project Leaderkarl.hansen@livingrainforest.org; 01635 202444 Andrew Logan, Project Coordinatorandrew.logan@livingrainforest.org; 01635 202444

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