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Mar 13
7 min

6 Questions to ask yourself before signing up for CSA

There is a few things you need to know and to ask yourself before determining if CSA is right for you. CSA stands for “Community Supporte...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Traditional Greenhouse technology vs. Sprung Greenhouse Innovations

Sprung Instant Structures have developed a very good solution to greenhouse buildings, to replace the heavy and expensive glass and steel...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Sprung Greenhouse Structures

Sprung Structures offer many advantages over typical greenhouse structures, including weight, durability, opacity, height and air-tightne...

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Apr 1, 2018
4 min

Energy Efficiency - CHP Overview Cogeneration (CHP): Why it matters

America. CHP systems neatly address two main challenges: (1) the amount of thermal energy used by consumers is higher than generally reco...

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Apr 1, 2018
2 min

How CHP works

A CHP system consists of an engine, generator, heat exchangers, and monitoring/control computers. (See Fig. 4) CHP systems can be designe...

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Apr 1, 2018
2 min

Huge potential for energy and financial savings

The decision of any individual building owner or manager to install a CHP system will of course be based on the specific benefits relevan...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

CHP in greenhouses

Current greenhouse operations are very energy intensive, requiring supplemental heat and, in facilities with grow lights, large amounts o...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Aquaponics

Aquaponics is the practice of growing plants and fish in conjunction so that their inputs and outputs provide a closed loop ‘ecosystem’ w...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Passive Solar for heating and air treatment

Passive solar design can potentially be integrated with aquaponics and other water features to provide benefits in terms of energy reduct...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

LED Lights

Particularly in northern climates, artificial lighting within greenhouses can be essential to enable 12 month growing. Until recently Hig...

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Apr 1, 2018
1 min

Vertical Growing

In order to make smaller greenhouses self-supporting, and maximize profits in larger operations, it is necessary to maximize growing spac...

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