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Old 04-08-2007, 02:29 AM
daemondamian daemondamian is offline
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Originally Posted by harrywitmore View Post
The water runs through the capillary mat. It absorbs water and plants root to it very easily. You pump the water to the top and apply it to the mat and it trickles down to the reservoir to be recycled. Sort of like a swamp cooler does.
That's what I was also wondering about- using the wall as a sort of natural swamp cooler with the constant evaporation of water. I'm unsure if I'll be using the lean-to still in Summer but I was considering an exhaust fan in the ceiling and putting in an actual swamp cooler bringing in only dry outside air from it- that gets cooled and replaces the hot air which is continually sucked out from the top..

So many questions, considerations and decisions to make
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