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World’s Largest Indoor Farm is 100 Times More Productive
Web Urbanist ^
| January 11, 2015
| Staff
Posted on 01/12/2015 11:06:39 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:09:54 AM PST
by
gaijin
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Israelis should put up one of these things in Gaza to watch the arabs destroy it because it covers up enough semiarid sheep pasture to feed half a sheep.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:11:16 AM PST
by
arthurus
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:11:36 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder what the Co2 level is inside that building? 8^)
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:12:26 AM PST
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have no doubt the US FDA and USDA will make this a requirement within 20 years
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:12:29 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: greeneyes
To: 2ndDivisionVet
For the sheer fun of it, I’ve annoyed liberals by making the comment that the planet could support probably 100 billion people. This article supports that it really might be possible, thanks to human ingenuity.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:14:05 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: gaijin
Years ago, I worked for one of the big power generators in Japan. We had a model power plant to show off to potential customers. It produced not only the power necessary to run our operation, but enough heat and light as a by-product to grow lettuce heads in a scaled down version of what is going on here. Every now and then, they would distribute a large bagful of lettuce for the employees to take home. Other than being uniform and slightly more bitter than lettuce grown in fields, it was indistinguishable.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:16:54 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
25,000 square feet grows 10,000 heads of lettuce per day? Not buying it.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Urban farming is very much the way of “sustainable” food supply, even in the face of sharply rising population numbers, both through extended life spans and the natural exponential increase of humanity over time. The time is coming when only the most productive means of food production will even have space to operate on Spaceship Earth.
To make this possible, the collection and extraction of energy shall have to be optimized to a much higher level than now is considered acceptable.
We have the technological capacity, and we are rapidly developing the economic incentive. When shall the will to institute this new technology be exerted, and the methods more widely adopted?
And yes, people, it is going to require carbon dioxide to make this system work. Lots of it. As much as we can produce.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:17:54 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Je suis Charlie)
To: cuban leaf
PETA will be calling this “rabbit racism”
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:19:12 AM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: mad_as_he$$
What makes you doubt the Japanese? It’s not as if they ever tried to pull one over on us...
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:19:19 AM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: mad_as_he$$
Not buying it either. The only way to even come close would be to stack the beds, still this would be almost impossible to achieve on a daily basis.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:23:59 AM PST
by
muskah
To: mad_as_he$$
Yes, 10k heads of lettuce a day? This story seems like bunk.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interesting. In an enclosed space, you can exclude bugs and weed seeds, thus eliminating the need for pesticides and herbicides. And being local to the consumers would eliminate a lot of transport costs. I would assume the LEDs are supplements for sunlight, rather than the only source of light.
These would be useful in northern European climates, so fresh food could be grown locally in cold months.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:25:03 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: muskah
Not buying it either. The only way to even come close would be to stack the beds, still this would be almost impossible to achieve on a daily basis.
Look at the pictures. They are stacked beds.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:26:48 AM PST
by
FR_addict
(Boehner needs to go!)
To: KC_Conspirator; mad_as_he$$
But, it’s on the internet ! So it must be true !!
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:27:22 AM PST
by
onona
(Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just wait ... China will build these next to their coal plants, vent the CO2 into them and use the excess power during non-peak hours to power the things...
with LED lights and extra CO2, this could truly feed the world very effectively, extra bonus pulling in the nuitriets from waste processing plants.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:29:59 AM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: muskah; mad_as_he$$
Read the article. They stack the lettuce beds floor to ceiling.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:30:04 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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