Off Grid Greenhouse Inquiry [RE-wrenches]

[Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar]

Hi Colin,

This is possibly a niche market that could be worth developing a complete
package for.  By package, I mean all the pumps, lights, fans and whatever
else these folks are looking for, all matched to the RE system also supplied
by you.  I have had several inquires (over 3) about this.  These were all
professional business people who felt that their herbs and veggies might
worth had they been grown with RE.

As Roger mentioned, lighting was giant load for the folks who called me. 
Several kW (not kWh's) at least.  No, I'm not talking about the high grade
herbal glaucoma remedy production.  There was no easy way around the
lighting either.  These were folks who were wanting to combine hydroponics
with aquaculture, they wanted to raise fish in the same water from what I
could tell.  Any way, something like this could easily cost several hundred
thousand dollars.  You would only have to sell one or two a year to recoup
the initial engineering cost.

Keep in mind that this fantastic business advice is coming from someone dumb
enough to attempt to sell solar panels in the Ozarks.

Travis Creswell
Ozark Energy Services
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>From: Colin <colin at positiveenergysolar.com>
>To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
>Subject: Re: Off Grid Greenhouse Inquiry [RE-wrenches]
>Date: Mon, May 20, 2002, 3:57 PM
>

>Wrenches, we need your help!
>
>Here's the situation:  a committed Off-grid client wants to run a home
>hydroponic gardening business.  We have come down hard on the facts of load
>reduction and urged him to look towards other passive alternatives to active
>venting, heating and cooling, but sadly the issue is that this commercial
>greenhouse, which he already owns was designed for a massive infusion of
>fossil fuel energy.
>
>Our initial load analysis had a first round conservative estimate of about
>10 kilowatts of PV array.
>
>What we are looking for is a) good websites for off grid greenhouse and
>gardening systems, equipment, education, etc.  and b) sources for efficient
>dc fans, electric seedling warmers, and Thermofor vents.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Colin Mitchell
>Positive Energy
>Santa Fe, NM
>
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