The Grand Solar Minimum - A Mini Ice Age 2020-2055

[roddas]

(28 November 2018, 23:00)tadx Wrote:

(28 November 2018, 19:25)roddas Wrote: well i will have have a little bit to do to be fully prepared for such an event, to start with i would need to find a way to continue to grow food as green houses would not be much use without some kind of extra heat source and the ground source heat that tadx mentioned would not work here without some serious machinery to dig down through rock so i will have to figure that one out for a start, i like MB stock lots of tinned food which i rotate constantly as well as pasta and rice, i also have a minimum 6 month supply of MREs in the stores on top of the other stores, i can already filter and purify enough water to last a life time and have 2 IBCs full in storage plus a 30 gallon stash in the house . for heat i have paraffin heaters and a good stock of paraffin, i also have a wood burner in the shed that could be moved to the house if needed.
So in a nutshell i will start to up the store of tinned food and everything else including the MREs and im gonna see what i can do about the heat for the greenhouses, night have to get a bit inventive on this one

I was looking into your greenhouse heating predicament and came across this:

https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/...and-manure

Compost keeps at a constant state of 40C if properly done. That in combination with a few of these:

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/HE...ywQAvD_BwE

A 200W solar panel could easily run two of those heaters with energy left over for night time.

It depends on how insulated the greenhouse is too. Maybe replace the panes with these:

https://www.pvccladding.com/products/mul...U4QAvD_BwE

Using water bottles to heat a greenhouse:

https://homeguides.sfgate.com/use-water-...81401.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spehA8I-3fI

Not sure how good that'd be, but I reckon it'll be a multi-method solution. It might help if you painted the bottles black too, as that absorbs heat.

I suppose it depends on how much ££ you have to burn on this project.

i already have a pretty large solar and wind power set up so i think ill probably just divert some of that power to some batteries in the greenhouse, seems to be the easiest way to go