Just Thinking While The Rig is Tripping Pipe

     So I was thinking and trust me I do a lot of thinking.  What would be a good way to heat a  greenhouse in the winter time without the need for massive amounts of electricity or any electricity at all?
      One thought I had was piping heated water underneath the greenhouse that went to a remote boiler unit that was powered by wood or paper blocks (thinking paper blocks since it is a great way to use the junk mail paper that everybody gets) to heat the boiler pipes.  The other idea is through solar array.  I'm kind of leaning toward the first one because then I could put a really nice copper design to go with it and make it really Steampunkish.  I would still need a little bit of solar to power the pumps and the fans but I could limit that to   a 12 volt parralel wiring system.  The design of course has already been tested on geothermal mass heaters for pumping heated liquid to heat a space so I do not see a problem with doing a similar system for the greenhouse.  The only problem is going to filling the British Thermal Unit requirement for the space in general so I may have to break it up into levels.  First level being a inbed system and the second level being a force draft system.  Now the easy way to figure this out is to think about conditioning the space.  For every 452' of space you will need 1 ton of air to condition said space.  Here is the kicker.  The 452' is for a standard insulated run of the mill house and the greenhouse is not your run of the mill house with only an air gap to provide insulation from the elements.  So I will have to reresearch my college books on the algorithm used to figure out insulation of a glass structure.  During the days of sun when it is winter there really will be little need for the heat since the UV rays will do most of the heating but overcast days will need to be accounted for.  In all I can't wait to show you the drawing on this one because once it is done being Steampunk'd out it will not only look impressive but everything will be fully functional.  All Steampunk ideas that will be on this blog except for a couple decor ideas will be fully functional and you will be able to do yourself if you would like.  Well until the next time.  Thanks again for reading.

Always Setbacks To a Passion

     Well what can we say?  When you get a plan together and have all of your ducks lined out in a row something always has to come up.  In our case it happened to be work.  Nothing wrong with work, I feel everybody should put in a good at least 12 hour day with some sort of manual labor into it.
     So with the plan on hold for right now until I get back from the rig I have decided to condense down some of the post with two to three subjects into each one.  I have already stated the approximation of what plants we plan to grow but have not been able to show you the findings on it.  That unforturnate piece of paper happens to be at the house.  So with the next post we will start out by showing you what we use on a daily basis and what we use for special occasions.
     The second part of the post will consist of designs for the chicken coop and the workshop which will be a vital part of many of the fabrications that will be in later posts.  The workshop of coarse is going through some major changes to deal with the influx of materials (mainly lumber I have cut myself) and the space needed to do some of the designs.  Before any designs are to be built I will show draftings of each with the necessary supply list that is needed for each one.  Since I mainly do hand drawn drafts these will be in place through velum paper and mechanical pencil.  Some of the designs you will see will be pretty complex but those will mainly involve the copper and bronze designs that I will use to incorporate the Steampunk theme of the homestead.
     As with any post I will show very thorough pictures that may have cookies attached with it like java or jpg images so be sure that you are fine with these before you proceed past this post.  I am not really sure how they classify what is a cookie and what is not since I am not very familiar with how they classify these on a government level but all images will be taken by the camera on this computer and I have not desided on whether or not I am going to shoot any video for this blog.  I hope yall will join me when I come home for good and we can get the ball rolling on transforming the land into a wonderful world of Steampunk and Self-Sustaining lifestyle choices.  Thank you guys again for reading this post and I look forward to showing you some new stuff in the future.  Until then I will just be working out in the middle of nowhere drilling for fuel.