Creation of an Environmentally Sensitive Greenhouse Using Low Cost LED Lights and Non-fossil Fuel Energy for heat and light

This project is to use the 60'X96' geothermally powered production greenhouse located at Chena Hot Springs Resort, as a site to test various commercial technologies currently used for greenhouse crops. Greenhouse projects are no common in Alaska. In reviewing the complete list of projects currently being funded in Alaska by the Denali Commission or the Alaska Energy Authority in the last two year, there are listing of many studies, reports and analyses of geothermal and alternative energy systems. But there are no actual construction projects to put "hardware into the ground" or demonstrate improvements. Our goal in this project is to address this lack head on: to tangibly validate the latest comparative developments in new lighting technology and environmental control and show the improvements in plant growth.