Posted on 05/21/2015 12:41:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When it comes to farming, there is no better time than now to get into the field. Thanks to technological advances ushered in by the green movement, farming has evolved from a traditional means to sustain a personal living to a science with the potential to feed millions. The Inquisitr previously reported on how technology-assisted farming has become a blessing to others. Former NFL football player, Jason Brown, watched DIY videos on Youtube to learn how to grow 46,000 pounds of sweet potatoes and 10,000 pounds of cucumbers, which he donated to pantries and kitchens. In Irvine, California, an entire park was transformed into a garden that uses advanced growing methods to grow enough food to feed 200,000 people every single month!
Though the above are fine examples of how farming can be a blessing, Japan seems to be at the forefront in its evolution. They house the World’s Largest Indoor Farm. That’s not the amazing part! Apparently, this farm produces 100 times more food than any traditional farm can.
According to an article by Good News Network, Shigeharu Shimamura put his plan for the farm into fruition back in 2011. As mentioned before, the farm produces 100 times more food than traditional farming, but an example would probably do best for visual purposes. Right now, the farm has produced 10,000 heads of high-quality leafy lettuce. What is truly mind-blowing isn’t the quantity or the quality of the heads of lettuce. It is the fact 10,000 heads of lettuce is the farm’s output in a single day! If that rate were to be calculated annually, the farm produces about 3,650,000 heads of high-quality leafy lettuce per year!
The farm can also be recognized as a beacon of hope rising from disaster. The year 2011 wasn’t only known for the farm’s initiation, but also when Japan suffered through an earthquake and tsunami. It is out of the wake of these disasters that Shigeharu Shimamura made the farm a reality. Taking over a giant semiconductor factory vacated after the earthquake, Shimamura’s company, Mirai (which means “future” in Japanese), drew up designs for the indoor vertical farm. They contacted General Electric (GE) to co-develop the special LED lighting system while a third company reconstructed the facility using the structure’s special characteristics like clean-room facilities, thermal insulation, and high ceilings.
After the facility was repaired and optimized for farming, Mirai added towering rows of thin soil trays and exact measurements for temperatures, humidity, light, and darkness to create 100 times more vegetables per square foot than conventional farming methods. The facility is also bacteria-free, pesticide-free, and cuts food waste by 30 to 40 percent. The growing method uses 40 percent less power and 99 percent less water. Finally, the farm incorporates food safety and year-round availability.
TOMO News actually did a short special on the World’s Largest Indoor Farm. The video of the special is attached below for your viewing.
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As the world learns to deal with the upcoming problems of both food and water shortages, plant factory farming operations – just like the World’s Largest Indoor Farm – will become a very viable solution. As a matter of fact, The Daily Meal reports that Mirai has installed twelve factory farming operations around Japan. They have also expanded outside of the country too, including Hong Kong, Russia, and even Mongolia. Very soon, such operations will expand to other places as well.
Put this thing in an under ground salt mine with a thorium reactor to supply power and you could survive a Dino-extinction event...
I think we should build a few underground cities, just in case.
Hmmmm. Maybe they pump extra See Uh Oh two in to enhance the food supply for the plants. You know, that evil pollutant.
Ultrafarm Ping for later viewing
Every few days, each of the 5000 or so employees who worked at our campus would get a bag with 5-7 heads of lettuce to take home. It didn't taste half bad either, just a slightly more bitter flavor than traditional sun-grown lettuce.
I wondered then why it hadn't gone commercial yet.
[ I think we should build a few underground cities, just in case.
I’ll take my chances on the surface over the living death of being forced to live in a city. ]
I would too, but when it comes to preserving humanity in face of the unforeseen, diversifying the environments that humans live on/in is a great way to ensure one single event will not wipe out humanity.
They may have to be color coded if man is to survive.
Found it. You were right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=extgjud6ME0 Freeze frame at 2:46
Green cylinder denotes CO2 in Japan.
[ I think we should build a few underground cities, just in case.
They may have to be color coded if man is to survive. ]
That is only if we build them before the year 2525....
LOL! SWAG (scientific wild bass guess) was right.
Moorlocks?
A twisted version of Moorlocks.
Liberals are already Eloi.
Zager and Evans, that song will stick with me forever.
LOL! Roger that. Bunch of birkenstock wearin’, toga sportin’ panty ‘wastes’.
But..But...I thought we were all gonna be eatin’ each other by now
Professor Ehrlich told me so
Lettuce is great in a salad and lettuce plants are conducive to being grown this way, but what about other crops?
How about crops with better nutritional value?
I’d like to see beans, peas, wheat, rice, potatoes, corn, onions and cabbage grown this way before I would say it is an answer for humanity.
And no to veganism. If you can grow nutritious crops, feed them to chickens, pigs, cows and other tasty critters first.
“The facility is also bacteria-free . . .”
I have a bit of trouble with that statement.
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