A question! Of science!
Aug. 17th, 2012 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIs it:
(a) a simple matter of thermal engineering;
(b) complex but doable; or
(c) not possible
to maintain a large glasshouse - think Crystal Palace or Kew, large on an imperial scale - at a temperature cooler than the surrounding environment, despite all that sunlight beating in? I'm thinking about high-altitude vegetation transplanted to low altitudes: needing lots of light but susceptible to warmth...
And is your answer different if I tell you that we are trying to do this with steam-level technology, and on Mars?
(a) a simple matter of thermal engineering;
(b) complex but doable; or
(c) not possible
to maintain a large glasshouse - think Crystal Palace or Kew, large on an imperial scale - at a temperature cooler than the surrounding environment, despite all that sunlight beating in? I'm thinking about high-altitude vegetation transplanted to low altitudes: needing lots of light but susceptible to warmth...
And is your answer different if I tell you that we are trying to do this with steam-level technology, and on Mars?