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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: muskah
Never mind, with 15 layers of plants and artificial days it is probably reasonable. Always pays to read the source site before commenting.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:30:14 AM PST
by
muskah
To: mad_as_he$$
The photos show 16 levels of plants, so 625 per 25,000 sq ft of FLOOR SPACE per day. It might be possible. I don’t think the lettuce are that big at harvesting.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
... Japan ... 25,000 square feet producing 10,000 heads of lettuce per day ... plants grow up to two and half times faster ... this place ... the 2011 earthquake and tsunami ...
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I wonder what the Co2 level is inside that building? 8^)
Oh I am sure it is ZERO because CO2 is bad bad bad and it kills plants deader than a hammer....
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:35:40 AM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Open field farming will always be preferable because natural soils contain hundreds if not thousands different micro-nutrients that are not defined. Just like chicken or hogs confined to facilities and only fed processed feed that cannot possibly replicate a natural diet, what will be the long term effect on us?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hydroponics is for more than tomatoes and marijuana.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We could use this tech to easily grow enough food on Mars for human expeditions.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This would be interesting with a crop that can store appreciable amounts of starch and vitamins like sweet potato or turnip (and associated greens), instead of something that is mostly water and has relatively little nutritional value... like lettuce.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:41:50 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: 2ndDivisionVet
There is a similar but much smaller plant doing the same thing in a suburb of Chicago, Beford Park, near Midway airport.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:43:29 AM PST
by
mosesdapoet
(Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
To: onona
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:43:55 AM PST
by
FR_addict
(Boehner needs to go!)
To: FR_addict
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:44:44 AM PST
by
FR_addict
(Boehner needs to go!)
To: alloysteel
Spaceship Earth
Wow. I haven't heard that one bandied since the '70s. The world is not a spaceship. I fear that those want to present as such do so to justify more government control.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:47:35 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The whole thing is backed by a shadowy consortium of billionnaire bunnies.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:48:58 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: PapaBear3625
” Read the article. They stack the lettuce beds floor to ceiling. “
It also makes it FAR FAR FAR easier to automate the harvesting and planting of said lettuce too...
Rise of the Robots....
The liberal LIE that ween need illegals to pick lettuce has another stake in it’s heart!!!!!
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:49:57 AM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: PapaBear3625
Reading it seems like a lot of work. ;’)
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:50:20 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
not really ground breaking. Backyard Farms has been growing tomatos indoors in Maine since 2010. Backyard Farms Our Story: On a cold February day in 2004, we noticed that every tomato in the grocery store was grown in Canada. Or Mexico. Or Holland. So they werent really ripe. They had just turned red while traveling long distances. As lovers of great tomatoes (like the kind we get from our own backyards in summer), we wondered, wouldnt it be great to grow fresh tomatoes right here at home all year long? The seed was planted. Through a lot of hard work and a bit of New England ingenuity, Backyard Farms was born. Today, Backyard Farms delivers great tomatoes to the Northeast all year long. Even during the long, cold New England winter. Weve introduced a new way of doing business to the tomato industry. One where freshness and quality of the tomatoes comes first. One built on relationships with our community. And one where we never compromise. To us, thats the only way it should be.
From Our Backyard: We think people should know where their food comes from and whos growing it. We believe in and support local produceparticularly the desire of people to have a higher-quality, fresher, better-tasting tomato. Quality comes first. Quantity second. Thats why we are just as excited as you to enjoy a local, garden-grown tomato in late summer. We know great tomatoes dont come easy, and were all for anyone that wants to join in our pursuit, or simply enjoy the fruits of our labor. http://www.backyardfarms.com/ 60 Minutes last night had a story on a major indoor marijuana grow operation in Colorado. It is the future of some type of plant production. I don't see it working for wheat, corn, potatos or some other plants, but it is a business RIPE for growth.
To: PapaBear3625
Those do not look like LEDs.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:51:46 AM PST
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: muskah
Places like Japan with limited land could become agricultural urban “breadbaskets”, especially since they are very good with robots too!
Not to mention crops like soybeans and rice could be bread and optimized by slective breeding anf even genetic engineering to thrive in these setups.
For instance, the rice plants don’t need to have such a long stalk to waste energy on growing, it can be only a few inches high as long as the grain is the same size.
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posted on
01/12/2015 11:53:18 AM PST
by
GraceG
(Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
To: justa-hairyape
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posted on
01/12/2015 12:00:05 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: mad_as_he$$
“25,000 square feet grows 10,000 heads of lettuce per day? Not buying it.”
You neglect to consider that they have multiple levels for each square foot.
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