Thermal management and moisture recycling is very important for a sealed system.
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Project for you, build some kind of 90° rotating top piece for that air inlet. Try and blow it over plants to simulate a breeze. Or some kind of X junction to blow it multipul directions at once, might save from making it rotate.
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If you had a fan, or series of fans in the greenhab, you could kill two birds with one stone by strengthening the plants and increasing the airflow through the cooling pipes. Although, the ability to power it via solar would probably stand in your way without a few more panels and batteries.
I am curious, could you decrease the heat inside the greenhab with a shade cloth over the top without decreasing the light level below tolerable levels? I grow leafy greens in the shade during the hot parts of the summer, but that's not with the added plastic barrier.
Build a automatic chicken door. My parents had a lot of chickens when I was a kid and we also had after a while an automatic chicken door. Doesn’t need to be something fancy. Just an Aluminum plate that is guided one the left and right and attached to a rope on the top. A small motor and some sort of microcontroller and a little bit of code.
Why not a DC pump? The inversion losses seem unnecessary.
@Cody'sLab The Biosphere Filtered Light will require a Prism. Do the third grade experiment check for missing colors in the rainbow. The arugula, could it be a nutrient, organic Bios or mineral deficiency in the soil. The soil could be simply be came depleted since there is no abundance of surrounding soil to replenish what nutrient is leached out by the plants, just guessing.
Cody where did you get the "trespassers will be used for science experiments" sign? I want that sign so bad
5:20 caught me so off guard because I did not heard fogged up
With the plants the no wind is a big thing that was a case of trees in a green house that when exposed to wind for the first time just fell over
Cody has more tanks than the Soviet Union.
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Hi Cody, I wonder if a solar powered recirculating fan in the crop tanks would help with their weak stems? I use a small computer fan for my veggies I start from seed indoors. It seems to help reduce the elongated and weak stem issue while they are still in their seed starting trays. I don’t know if stronger stems is actually a concern for you since you’re not transplanting them later but maybe it would make them crunchier?
I love chicken-hole base, what a fun way to communicate science!
Thats a lot of crickets, my god…
Thought about mounting some hydroponics lights on the ceiling of the greenhouse to supplement the weakened daylight getting through the plastic?
Long-form Cody is the best Cody 🤗
If you ever have time, can you check the temperature in the black 'cooling' tank compared to one of the white ICB tanks in the middle of the day?
Will the black/white color have a big difference when in the sun?
Can we all appreciate how he made all those plumbing connections without any leaks?
With larger diameter ventilation pipe you would get much better flow. Long small diameter pipe, there is lot of friction to overcome
add solarpowered led grow lights to get them more stout
part of the reason why your plants are so weak (structurally) becasue there is no wind, wind thickend the stems of plants
The 60Hz humm as you move camera close to the plastic tubing tells me there may be a electrical connection to it from the inverter. Possibly the pump does not like the briney solution.
Make sure you don't get a shock!
If you put the tanks underground it can work like a geothermal cooler. or you can just do it the correct way and run a few hundred feet of pipe under the frost line
Some fans for air movement will help the plants
Like always. Love the update.
Maybe put the return airflow pipe underground and make it a bit bigger to allow more airflow
do you have any way to deal with a potential parasitic fungus destroying the crops. its a warm, damp and somewhat dark place.
Fantastic episode
Low light causes plants to stretch towards the light, making them lanky. Add to the combination of low airflow from a lack of wind, will give them weak stems. If you added a fan in, and a sunlight, they would be stronger.
Space gopher
Cody inspired me to get a greenhouse, restart my compost, redo and add to my garden beds. Next I just need to get some spirulina growing lol
Dc submersible pump like a boat blige pump would work great hooked directly to solar panel output. Would come on at sunrise and off at sundown. No loss from an inverter ,no battery and no control circuit. KISS engineering at its best.
24:19 is that a big ass spider on the left?
Wonderful episode! Would love a tour of the property and how your future native forest is establishing itself
Jerusalem fartichokes
This is such an awesome project
Mars' solar irradiance is only 43% of earths, but I think its still realistic enough to use a solar light set up in the garden tank to see if it makes a difference. And the ice caps on Mars are mostly made of CO2 which could be used to provide an enriched atmosphere for the plants to grow in, so a C02 dosing system is in the realm of possibility too
A great episode, I enjoyed it very much, thank you for that ! When are you going to plant a few fruit trees outside in an ordinary greenhouse (with polycarbonate panels), to make it more liveable? One par for science (the mars-base), one part for holidays (greenhouse with fruit trees and a little swimming pool inside). You should install live-cams in the in- and outside of your property. Then you would see, who lingers around.
lol That drop in tone speaking about the Mormon crickets… "They're trying though". XP
Thanks Cody.👍
All I can say is, WOW😁. Keep growing and filming, we'll keep watching 👍❤️🙏.
Good job, more soil depth for next version may require making a larger Container.
You just solved a mystery for me! I've been growing radishes for a few years in my backyard, and I've heard that the greens were edible. I had assumed that it was the leaves the sources were talking about, but they are kinda spikey and are generally unpleasant. Turns out, it's the stalks i should have been eating. Thanks Cody
Isn't water distilled from air too poor in nutrients for plants?
Very interesting!
Hi Cody, based on my prior research into aeroponics, having some airflow over the plants will yield stronger stems and crunchier leaves. I even recall that larger grow operations could tailor the texture/crunchiness of salad greens for their customers by modulating the airflow through the crop.