use for old swimming pool

Nothing personal but Kurt saxon is a fool . 99% of the BS he has published is stolen after the copywrites expire . Are you really going to trust a man who blew off parts of his own hands attempting to do some of the BS he wrote??
Considering the number of children injured do to his "Poor Mans James Bond" and "Grand dads fireworks" books along with the fact that he has personally done nearly none of what he writes about . I would take anything hes written with about 25 pounds of salt .
It doesnt take any knowledge to plagerize.

Hi Josh,

No, that is not the article I was referring to, but your article, although older had some great information. Thanx for sharing that. The article I am speaking about was more current and showed actual photographs. I am thinking the article was from the mid 90's. The geodesic dome greehouse was placed on a stone base of probably 3 feet tall. It was very nice looking. It looked relatively simple but I remember thinking, other than the 4 foot pool it would not be as inexpensive as the article led one to believe. I do plan to try it some day in the future as I just love the concept, I enjoy preparing and eating Tilapia and raising fish fits in with my plans for the farm. My feeling is if it were to flop, it would not be a loss as I could always use a greenhouse space, I would have learned something, the pool could be used in a more traditional manner plus it would serve as a public service around my small town. The oldtimers love me I always give them something to wonder about, scratch their collective heads over and chat about, in the kindest of ways, down at the Post Office. LOL Seriously though, I have had some good talks with my fellow townsfolk generated by some of the "out there" things that take place here on the farm.

I will try to dig up that info tomorrow, I am assuming that the stuff I have is based on the stuff Josh provided. Very cool!

*Peace*
Debra

This place has some info, and it appears that they actaully did this commercially.

http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/page2.htm

It looks really interesting, but I can't find out how much money they want for their information packet! Must be expensive, since they offer teachers a 20% discount.

The New Alchemy Institute was a big proponent of aquaculture. They had had the fishtanks in greenhouses but they used Kalwal fiberglass to make the tanks. Tanks grew algae which fed the Tilapia, added humidity to the greenhouse and acted as heat storage area for the greenhouse and fish.

Heres a link to one article on the topic

http://www.vsb.cape.com/~nature/gree.../solaraqua.pdf

Pretty slick and integrated but it doesn't help use up a pool liner.

do you think the lettuce would taste fishy? It sounds like I would probably need to raise catfish becouse of my climate here or build a green house around the pool which would not be all bad except a lot more money than I planned on spending right now. I do think I see some potential with this if not to make a few bucks but to provide another source of food for my family that I know what went into it. Thanks for all the responces, there has been a lot of good links and information given. Keep it coming if you can.

You might want to hold off on getting rid of the pool for now - or converting it in to another use. Go through a summer of farm work and that pool is going to look pretty good to you after a hot days work.

We used to have a pool at our town house, but when we moved to our acreage our kids were getting old (almost out of high school), and would be going off to college, so we decided not to put in a pool at our new place. We've regretted it every summer! They are not that hard to take care of, and you don't have to be a lap swimmer or Olympian to enjoy just taking a quick dip after working in the garden, or cleaning livestock pens or cutting wood - anything kind of outdoor work in our area.

We're starting to work on a hot tub area that will be a cool tub for the summer. Can't stand it anymore, and we don't have a close by swimming hole. But having a place to cool off in water just makes all chores a bit easier to take in the hot summer days.

CindyOR