I am just one of the hopeless environmentalists in our family, and maybe in the whole wide world; but who cares? I love dreaming up ways to help nature, and most importantly, I love people and our future together. That's why when I first come to see the Elenco EDU-8740 Hydro Lab.

Greenhouse System I think to myself, 'this is what I need!' I am going to put it somewhere in the house and have my nephews and nieces, who are always in our house, come along for a grand tour. And I did just that! Now, every little kid in the family knows about the greenhouse system and its effect to the world we live in. With that, I think I have inculcated in their minds the important things that a kid should know about the environment. That way, I can expect that they will grow as earth loving people.

This group works to inform the management of water and nutrients to improve agricultural profitability, environmental quality and the delivery of ecosystem services for the sustainable prosperity of rural and urban communities.  The research activities are primarily applied combined with some basic processes and theoretical studies and development research.

This group incorporates the core disciplinary strengths of soil science , plant and animal physiology, atmospheric physics and spatial systems modelling  to address greenhouse gases (GHG) emission mechanisms and quantification as well potential mitigation and adaptive responses of land bases industries The research covers, basic, applied and development activities although the large part focuses on the applied research to develop national and international mitigation and adaptation strategies in the following areas:

The packing house has been constructed according to the international standards. Its area is 4.700 m2 and can pack a production of 100 ha greenhouses.

Structure The packing structure is done from galvanized iron. The galvanized iron has the big advantage of preventing corrosion, particularly in humid zones. The corrosive material can drop on the fruits and eliminate them for exportation. The packing house is ventilated well and isolated by isolating material, in order to maintain low and uniform temperatures. The doors are electrical. The sides and the roof of the packing house are covered by galvanized "Ascorit" material that is painted in white color for reflect the radiation excess.

A hybrid system can be generally defined as an electricity production and distribution system which consists of a combination of two or more types of electricity generating sources (example solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbine generators,). Hybrid systems usually also include an energy storage.

Battery provides storage energy, which is delivered at the time the solar radiation is low, in cloudy periods or at night-time. Lead-acid batteries operation is characterized by the limited range of depth of discharge (DOD), the value currently being limited to a maximum of 80% at the best operating conditions. If this value is exceeded, the battery suffers from over-discharge, and permanent damage may result if the battery remains at this state for long. Armenta-Deu (3) concluded that the state of charge (SOC) has revealed to be an influencing parameter onto the battery voltage evaluation, especially during the charging and overcharging process. The inverter has to be capable of handling the maximum expected power AC loads (4).