Farms: Onward: Underground Farming in a London Bomb Shelter | National Geographic
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There's a farm one hundred feet below London's streets. In an old World War II bomb shelter, innovators Steve Dring and Richard Ballard are growing salad greens with reclaimed water and lights powered by wind turbines. Finding ways to grow more food using less space will be key to feeding Earth's growing population. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About National Geographic: National Geographic is the world's premium destination for science, exploration, and adventure. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible. Get More National Geographic: Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoOfficialSite Facebook: http://bit.ly/FBNatGeo Twitter: http://bit.ly/NatGeoTwitter Instagram: http://bit.ly/NatGeoInsta Read more about this farm under London: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/special-features/2014/04/140423-food-grown-london-underground-tunnels/ In a special eight-month series, National Geographic investigates the future of food: http://food.nationalgeographic.com Onward is a project to explore the world and share its untold stories. Hit the road with National Geographic multimedia journalists Spencer Millsap and Dan Stone at http://onward.nationalgeographic.com, or tweet them at @spono and @danenroute to join the conversation. Onward: Underground Farming in a London Bomb Shelter | National Geographic https://youtu.be/ZCtSaIme1zs National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/natgeo
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have fun getting all your soil amendments and crops up and down those stairs lol.
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what they invented? because I'm not sure I get it from this video. I get only that they are very proud.
Maybe they have a friend that work for NG. -
Funny how there are always one or two "know-it-alls" who ridicule this sort of thing, but at least these guys are trying something a little different. Perhaps they do have much to learn, but at least they ARE learning while there is, as yet, no real emergency. But when it does all go "tits-up", these guys will be well ahead of the curve and ready to be useful to a struggling society. Good on ya, gentlemen!
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It would make far more sense to put greenhouses on the tops of urban buildings. During winter, combustion exhaust from the furnaces and hot water heaters consisting of carbon-dioxide, water and residual heat travel up the flues into the greenhouse. During summer, hot humid air from the air conditioning cooling towers could be sucked through the greenhouses.
Underground facilities should be used to grow fungi - mushrooms. They don't require light and such an environment reduces contamination from unwanted species. They live off of waste products. Waste goes down and food comes up.
The only place something like this might work would be Antartica. There are places that have very strong winds over long periods, there are long periods of darkness and being under the surface away from the winds and where some insulation is possible is a good idea. -
"Anthropogenic Global Warming" story that Al Gore sold to the world is an absolute LIE and worrying about carbon dioxide is another sham. We eat food, crops, plants which absorbed sun's rays, thus there are people who 'eat' sun's rays instead of food to live. Growing underground? No SUN. Also, so-called 'green energy' is another hoax. Solar, wind power, all actually very toxic to humans but so many people around the world there again, all mislead, brainwashed to believe that's the answer. How pathetic... Anyway, these guys who got onto National Geographic page must be either fake Government's agents or helplessly stupid pair who blindly believed the criminals stories. Why do I say that? National Geographic is one of those who ridiculed 9/11 truth big time, serving for Illuminati evil doers.
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NO MORE HUNGER PROBLEM IN THIS WORLD WITH SUCH IDEA....
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Cool Concept. It will be interesting to see how it scales.
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Grow champions-muchrooms its easier you don t need light
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Grow some pot
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For starters; you need more mylar to reflect the light better than white plastic or cloth, you need more fans or the plants will be too weak to support their own growth.,you'll quickly run out of CO2.. pipe that in from above.
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it's not exactly a new concept, fucktard hipsters >.<
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This is the most pathetic hydro farm I have ever seen. Show me 1000 ears of corn grown down there and I'll reconsider.
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Ha, me and my pops did that in Ohio for two generations, we grew best buds up north there ever was!
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Nice.. you would make more money growing something else lol
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Brilliant!
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they are amazing!