All Discussions Tagged 'solar' - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T09:55:50Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=solar&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTOLL would you buy a solar power plant for fish farmingtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2013-01-20:4778851:Topic:4309332013-01-20T23:57:02.878ZDavid Presslerhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/DavidSafeDomesdotcom
<p><a href="http://www.safedomes.com" target="_blank">Solar powered fish farm Arcadia Florida</a><span class="font-size-4"> The business plan to take a fish farm off the grid by creating solar powered fish tanks was illegallly prevented by DeSoto County Florida. The actions of DeSoto County violated Florida Right to Farm Act and Florida Aquaculture policy act both enforced by the Florida Dept of Agriculture. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">DeSoto County within 2 months of DRD…</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.safedomes.com" target="_blank">Solar powered fish farm Arcadia Florida</a><span class="font-size-4"> The business plan to take a fish farm off the grid by creating solar powered fish tanks was illegallly prevented by DeSoto County Florida. The actions of DeSoto County violated Florida Right to Farm Act and Florida Aquaculture policy act both enforced by the Florida Dept of Agriculture. </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">DeSoto County within 2 months of DRD Enterprises Inc of Davie purchasing a fish farm in Arcadia Florida issued a cease work order on the construction of solar power plants declaring DRD Enterprises was mfg for resale before any units were completed or sold NO EVIDENCE!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Florida Dept of AG failed to enforce the laws of Florida and furthermore failed to assign an Ombudsman to review the actions suffered by DRD Enterprises as required under the Florida Aquaculture Policy Act.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">Now my attorney says that I need to create a loss statement, difficult since the business plan never got fully developed. My hope is that by the number of responses from Aquaculture business owners will justify my belief that once I had my transportable solar powered fish tanks working other farms would order units, units constructed at a mfg site.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">If you feel that a transportable 8 ton building housing a minimum 400 gallon fish tank aerators and all sytems to raise fish in a control environment PLEASE send a comment so I can collect a total</span></p> Basic solar heating for a small systemtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-02:4778851:Topic:1024152011-05-02T10:27:47.739ZKobus Joostehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/KobusJooste
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<p>As it is getting into winter here, I am playing with an idea for solar heating that I thought of a few months ago. It may not help people in the Northern Hemisphere much now, but I'll report on the progress I'm making. I am going to start experimenting with a small unit to heat an aquarium system I'm working on. The 300 liter aquarium is in an outside building with no insulation, and a 300 Watt heater basically never stops working to keep the temperature up above 20…</p>
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<p>As it is getting into winter here, I am playing with an idea for solar heating that I thought of a few months ago. It may not help people in the Northern Hemisphere much now, but I'll report on the progress I'm making. I am going to start experimenting with a small unit to heat an aquarium system I'm working on. The 300 liter aquarium is in an outside building with no insulation, and a 300 Watt heater basically never stops working to keep the temperature up above 20 degrees Celcius. The idea I had was using left-over pieces of 6 mm multi-wall polycarbonate sheeting used in my research system as a simple flow-through solar water heating panel. I have designed the basic plumbing, but before I spend too much time making the actual unit, I thought I'd give the idea a go.</p>
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<p>First test was filling a 25 liter blue drum up with water and leaving it in the sun. It heated slowly, but topped out at around 26 degrees. I then siliconed up one end of a 0.5m square polycarb sheet. I left the white backing paper on it, but step two of the experiment will be to paint the back black.</p>
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<p>Although the experiment is very crude (the thermometer is cheap and the probe touches the polycarb sides) the results are promising. The water heats up rapidly, and reaches 36 degrees Celcius in about 30 minutes (a rise of over 16 degrees Celcius). I'm not sure what the max of this configuration can be, but it is not far above 38 degrees Celcius.</p>
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<p>I am hoping that with the back painted black, I will be able to hit 40 degrees Celcius in 30 minutes flat. The water volume of the entire panel (without plumbing) will be around 1.5 liters, thus it is not a massive panel. I have a fair amount of it at my disposal though, and if the black panel is going to give me 40 degrees fast, I'm willing to see how it goes on the 300 liter aquarium. With 45 minute rotations and around 9 hours of direct sun, I'll have 12 rotations on the panel. The 0.5 square meter unit will thus only heat about 18 liters of water a day, which makes me think that I will have to go for 30 minute rotations and bigger panels. On two of these panels, I will then heat 54 liters of water a day. Still, it beats having a 300 watt heater on 24 hours a day!</p> 12volt pumpstag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-02-24:4778851:Topic:502092011-02-24T20:34:08.850ZLoke K.https://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/LokeK
<p>Aloha,</p>
<p>I am in the process of converting my system to solar and was wondering if anyone has experience with 12v pumps, which are the most reliable? I have 2500 gallon tank with about 2000 gallons water for tilapia and will be pumping up 6 ft. Thank you for any input....</p>
<p>Loke K.</p>
<p>Aloha,</p>
<p>I am in the process of converting my system to solar and was wondering if anyone has experience with 12v pumps, which are the most reliable? I have 2500 gallon tank with about 2000 gallons water for tilapia and will be pumping up 6 ft. Thank you for any input....</p>
<p>Loke K.</p>