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DEVELOPMENTS IN ENERGY USE IN PROTECTED CULTIVATION IN IRELAND
Article number
115_1
Pages
21 – 28
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Abstract
Increased oil prices in recent years have created serious cost pressures on the Irish protected cropping industry, encouraging in turn a number of approaches to reducing energy costs.
These include: use of solid fuels; extract heat from electricity generation; thermal screens; the double-clad air-inflated polythene greenhouse; NFT with root zone warming and reduced night minimum air temperatures; wind energy; and airborne infra-red scanning for the study of greenhouse heat losses.
These include: use of solid fuels; extract heat from electricity generation; thermal screens; the double-clad air-inflated polythene greenhouse; NFT with root zone warming and reduced night minimum air temperatures; wind energy; and airborne infra-red scanning for the study of greenhouse heat losses.
Authors
T. O’Flaherty, M.J. Maher
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