The Modern Green House or Glass House

Basically a green house is a building or a place where plants are grown and is made up of different types of materials such as glass or plastic roofs. These are also called a Glass House…

The structure of these houses is built in such a way that the incoming solar radiation from the sun is absorbed by the plants and the soil. The glass inside these green houses is partly opaque. This is because the thermal energy re-radiated by the green houses is trapped inside. The primary heating mechanism of the green house is convection.

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