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   Hello Wilfred!   
      
   ** On Thursday 04.03.21 - 09:56, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> I just thought since it's not uncommon for people to build   
    AA>> "green spaces" and gardens on rooftops, maybe the two can   
    AA>> be combined so that the heat produced from the animal   
    AA>> husbandry from below can offer some warmth to the plants   
    AA>> above.   
      
    WvV> Maybe, but I've never heard of it before, either as idea   
    WvV> or as an implementation. So maybe it's impractical, or no   
    WvV> one had thought of it before.   
      
   I suppose it would be a rare circumstance to have an     
   animal+plants operation combined in one business/location.. so     
   maybe that's why no one is trying that.   
      
    WvV> One thing though, the greenhouses over here are usually   
    WvV> much larger than the stables that house a couple of   
    WvV> hundred cows, for the average cow farm. So the energy in   
    WvV> the form of warmth that can be harvested from a stable is   
    WvV> probably way to little to heat an average greenhouse...   
      
   Have you ever visited a stable in the winter that is full of     
   animals?  Even when the waste is cleaned out fairly well, it can     
   be pretty warm inside.   
      
   Growing up on a couple of small farms, the worst of the waste     
   was removed (manually, primarily because the interiors were     
   never built large enought for driving machinery inside) during     
   the winter.  But there was always a remnant that was just easier     
   to leave inside and just cover the damp areas with straw.  Over     
   the course of the winter, there would be quite a bit of     
   decomposing straw to remove.  Anyway.. the barns never really     
   needed any auxiliary heating.  Every one was comfy cozy inside.   
      
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