Dartmouth Big Green Energy House

Dartmouth ENVS50 student/faculty blog documenting planning of a passive solar Organic Farm greenhouse with GAHT/climate-battery, zoning/setback constraints, and farmer outreach in Hanover, NH. Project aims for passive solar greenhouse with GAHT (ground-to-air heat transfer) / climate battery: daytime fan stores heat/humidity in buried pipes; nighttime return of warmed air. Notes climate-battery greenhouses still lose heat; limited research on GAHT impacts on carbon sequestration and crop productivity. Documents Town of Hanover international building codes, 50-foot Lyme Road setback, conservation easements limiting siting; renovating existing foundation may preserve zoning grandfathering. Cites Schiller & Plinke The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse as course textbook for GAHT sizing variables (pipe length/size/layering, fan power).

Planning blog for student capstone; not a completed instrumented walipini.

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