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1. Vertical farming is a cool concept, but sadly it won't work, because you need way too much energy to provide enough light (link)
2. Hydroponics is nice, but it may be a bit costly when it comes to building your custom installation
3. The idea: mass produce hydroponic sachets, in transparent,
biodegradable, bioplastic bags.
-the bags contain (1) a bit of earth, (2) a seed, (3) a sachet of water, (4) a sachet of a nutrient rich solution (3 and 4 can be combined, but for style we keep them apart).
-the nutrient and water sachets are like a baxter; they contain a precise dose for a particular crop
-even though water and nutrients are distributed very precisely, any excess is recycled, via a capillary tube
-you can hang these hydroponic bags in front of any window and your plant will begin to grow
-this allows for 'vertical' farming in skyscrapers
-this can be mass produced, and distributed according to any customer's needs (you can tear off your preferred amount of sachets from a big roll)
-the transparency of the bags makes it so that light still enters the office / building's / skyscraper's spaces; the liquids in the sachets are translucent too
-the biodegradability of the bags makes it so that you can throw them away along with the earth after harvesting your food; or if you have a special green collection / recycling service it will gladly accept the waste sachets to make organic fertiliser out of them
-thus you could massively produce food in the megacities, without requiring new land!!
-lettuce, small tomatos, spinach... I can see them hanging all over town!!
I made a drawing of the idea (link).
Vertical farm
http://www.verticalfarm.com/
Sadly not very feasible [django, May 29 2007]
The sachet
http://i3.photobuck...et.jpg?t=1180485981
This one is spinach, a very healthy plant. [django, May 29 2007]
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Makes sense as a fashion statement too. |
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Yep, design is crucial to get good ideas [not mine, hydroponics in general I mean] accepted. Permaculture and hydroponics are too often associated with plastig buckets, PVC pipes, pieces of scrap metal... put together by amateurs in a shack in the backyard. Too bad.
Nice design may change that. |
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Nice idea, but is it really hydroponic? You are using soil there. How about a transparent gel instead? |
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Oh, and for fruit crops(like tomatoes, peppers, squash), how are the bees getting in to pollinate? |
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Galbinus_Caeli, I thought hydroponics meant recycling water and nutrients in a closed loop, but you're right, it's actually based on using no soil at all.
A nicely colored translucent gel would even make the design nicer. |
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has my vote, could throw a load of these things on the roof of a house. neighbors may complain though. |
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//Makes sense as a fashion statement too.// |
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I like it - misinterpreting slightly (I think) - you could even WEAR these things! 8~) (Although some people might prefer a less transparent version for this purpose.) |
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People who work out of doors could wear
these, as they're exposed to daylight a lot
more. They could even offer transactions
on their crop. For example, the postman
could deliver lettuce. |
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//the postman could deliver lettuce.// |
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Young lady postpersons might find they sold rather a lot of their clothes if they weren't careful. |
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