This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water
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Watch the next episode about San Francisco becoming a zero waste city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3OA1s8-SI&list=UUJsSEDFFnMFvW9JWU6XUn0Q As urban populations continue to rise, innovators are looking beyond traditional farming as a way to feed everyone while having less impact on our land and water resources. Vertical farming is one solution that's been implemented around the world. Vertical farms produce crops in stacked layers, often in controlled environments such as those built by AeroFarms in Newark, New Jersey. AeroFarms grows a variety of leafy salad greens using a process called "aeroponics," which relies on air and mist. AeroFarms' crops are grown entirely indoors using a reusable cloth medium made from recycled plastics. In the absence of sun exposure, the company uses LED lights that expose plants to only certain types of spectrum. AeroFarms claims it uses 95% less water than a traditional farm thanks to its specially designed root misting system. And it is now building out a new 70,000 square foot facility in a former steel mill. Once completed, it's expected to grow 2 million pounds of greens per year, making it the largest indoor vertical farm in the world. For more on AeroFarms: http://aerofarms.com/ Join the Seeker community! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeekerNetwork Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seeker-Network/872690716088418?ref=hl Instagram: http://instagram.com/seekernetwork Tumblr: http://seekernetwork.tumblr.com App - iOS http://seekernetwork.com/ios App - Android http://seekernetwork.com/android
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Yes we don't need GMO fodd, we need vertical farms like this
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excellent, but suspect this process uses synthetic fertilizers and nutrients.
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"plants dont need the yellow spectrum" what a twat...plants dont "need" it but studies have shown the plant pigment phycoerythrin and phycocayanin that utilizes yellow light can significantly increase terpene production....and if plants dont need yellow light to show full genetic potential then why do thesesuckers have white leds which emit yellow light? fucking idiots....yet again people spouting misinformation with arbitrary and conjecture.
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the taste comes mainly from the soil.... so guess what no taste and with no real sun the one they evolved with ... i can only doubt the quality...
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this is more like an apocalypse farm
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This will never take off until they can grow staple foods. Right now, they're just growing greens. Look at the kinds of plants shown in the video, spinach, leaf lettuce, and other stuff like that. These kinds of plants are probably the easiest to work with, you can grow that kind of stuff anywhere, they're as tough as dandelions, and they're cheap and they probably make a good bit of money.
But if you really want to solve overpopulation and grow food for a population, greens absolutely will not cut it. Greens, while mineral and vitamin rich, are calorie poor. That's why people eat salads to lose weight, and eat more things like celery or spinach or whatnot. It's mostly water and fiber. This isn't exciting and it's not going to save our planet from overpopulation.
The reason this isn't catching on is because you can't grow things like corn or wheat or potatoes or rice, anything that's actually going to support a population with vertical farming and make a profit. You can grow so much more of this stuff with such a higher yield for an incredibly lower cost outside in soil with the sun.
Right now our best bet is making the best fertilizers we can to maximize our yields and making the best pesticides and herbicides we can to minimize bugs and weeds from killing or ruining the crops we produce. Vertical farming, which is indoors, eliminates bugs and weeds, but the massive energy costs and limited space for staple food crops hold it back. You might as well grow things in a giant greenhouse. -
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Yes, I do think it is a great idea. I have been following vertical gardening for years now. Current farming practices not only take up too much land but also is a big pollutant of our world. They cannot keep up with the demand of populations It would be great to bring it to our city as we have an empty manufacturing building sitting empty and this would bring jobs back into our city. Bravo for moving ahead with new innovations in farming.
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great idea. I think it it is wonderful. I hope they get several verticle gardens in every city.
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it does not consume water, but it consumes energy
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YES
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yea whenever your grow plants instead of animals flesh you definitely help out the planet and all of the life that benefits
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this is the America I love
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There is no food production problem or else that would have been part of your video. I think any type of growing that doesn't involve using soil is a much better idea and could save the world time, space, energy, water and money. Thirdly the problem is not starting businesses like these to increase food production, but educating the population that supporting standard soil farms harms the earth and that they should either support new models, or grow their own plants.
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I like to know the cost/benefit analysis. How much it cost to build/maintain a vertical farm and how much food/money return. This is the only way we could tell if this is a net benefit to humans. It needs to be a net gain, not a net lost
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cancer
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Absolutely
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This is the future
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Lol... What happend with planting vegetables outside so it can grow with SUNLIGHT.. I don't eat frankenstein food. You cannot take something from it's natural nature and change it like that.
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I want to learn about this, how to do it, all the essentials. Where is a good place to learn? Are their any opportunities for OJT? Like to set up something like this in the Philippines.
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