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Phase Change [heating with solar]

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Bruce S:
It has been a while since I last posted about the Greenhouse.

The phase change wasn't nearly as helpful as some of the other ideas.

My candles held their own during our "normal" winter weather, but once it got to -4F (-20C) was just too much for them, I had 6 of the tuna can sized going and even those weren't keeping the chill away.

Heating with cleaned oil has worked out to the best. I used a simple tin can oil heater found all over the place on U-tube.
Instead of just having it laying around, I put it inside of a cracked cast iron pot and had it sit inside of a dutch oven full of water. Then a copper tube feeding it with a 1/2gal of oil and used a spigot to slow down the oil drip.

Here's the last of the tomatoes that we harvested

You even see some of the damage in the middle of the one.
There are no new flowers on it, but the plant is surviving, so we'll see how it goes.

Cheers
Bruce S

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