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THE GREEN FARM WITH LIGHT

THE GREEN FARM WITH LIGHT

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Daylight investigations - Region 4: Asia and Oceania

Students
OLIVA GEOFREY MUNYAGA

School
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology

Country
China

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Nature comes with blessings and consequences, but we need to know how to use and manage it and still enjoy comfortably in our environment. And in this project is about to show how we can use nature to solve natural occurring problems.In accordance to the selected location( Tanzania-Bagamoyo district), there has been a large influence of agricultural activities around coastal areas of the country due to its large demand needed in relation to its population increase compared to the interior regions, but this is more encouraged since around this locations its easy to supply some of the products to other countries thus increasing the economic growth since the products produced in these greenhouses are of great quality and quantity.Greenhouse is a structure that provides ideal environment best for survival of plants in it by controlling the amount of sunlight, temperature, carbon dioxide, low exposure to pest. And it mainly uses sunlight which is converted to heat which is trapped inside the greenhouse. In relation to this project’s location and many other parts of the continent, basically in tropics and equatorial regions heat is found to be excessive causing harm to growth of plants hence resulting to poor quality and quantity of crops and other plants. The project is designed to show how we can still use a greenhouses allowing maximum penetration of sunlight and still reduce the heat converted inside them, and this basically involves the use of plastic water cans with salt water solution since plastics have a tendency of absorbing infrared and visible( and also ultraviolet) and this is converted into heat in plastic and in relation to the presence of salt water, salt in it has properties of effective heat absorption but also when in water it increases (water) boiling point thus creating no major increase of temperature in water and greenhouse in general despite great absorption of heat in it.In the day the water cans inside the greenhouse will absorb the heat from the sunlight inside the greenhouse thus some water solution will evaporate to the outside hence reducing the salt water solution making it more concentrated, thus this solution is found effectively conducting electricity with the additional of other materials ( easily available and affordable in site) like insulated coppers wires, aluminum foil, volt battery and volt light bulb, hence helping in providing electricity in farms which are mostly located in the interior with no such services like electricity due to its remoteness.