We came across a company called Eco Systems Design. They are missionaries for climate battery technology, and share it freely. We were so impressed we decided to extend the knowledge chain. Their technology made it to our blog, because it stores energy that it returns later, to the environment it came from.
The Climate Battery Cools and Warms a Greenhouse
The climate battery is also called a subterranean heating and cooling system, or a ground heat exchanger. It uses energy to circulate air with electric fans. These could draw their power from a solar-battery source. This is because they use as much electricity as a single household refrigerator.
The fans send warm air from high up in greenhouse space, through a system of pipes beneath the earth floor. Vapor in the warm air condenses because the earth is cooler. The pipes have multiple small perforations underground. These allow the moisture to reach the roots of greenhouse plants.
This process gently heats the surrounding earth, creating the warm, damp environment plants love most. Eco Systems Design claims the climate battery accumulates five times more solar energy than photovoltaic panels.
When the ambient temperature falls inside the greenhouse at night, the returning air is warmer after passing through the soil. This simple system returns heated, moist air from whence it came, once again the environment that plants love most.
The Art of Fine-Tuning a Climate Battery
We need to strike a balance between circulating air through the pipes in daytime, and at night when it is cooler. During winter, we may not want to cool the greenhouse at all. We may even need to warm it artificially using electricity from the solar batteries. The opposite may apply at the height of summer.
We dress warmly at times to conserve body heat. On other occasions we wear as little clothing as modesty permits. A climate battery is earth’s equivalent of these self same principles: Adjusting our lifestyles to the environment, not stubbornly attempting the other way around.
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