Farms: This Farm of the Future Uses No Soil and 95% Less Water
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Watch the next episode about San Francisco becoming a zero waste city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3OA1s8-SI&list=UUJsSEDFFnMFvW9JWU6XUn0Q As urban populations continue to rise, innovators are looking beyond traditional farming as a way to feed everyone while having less impact on our land and water resources. Vertical farming is one solution that's been implemented around the world. Vertical farms produce crops in stacked layers, often in controlled environments such as those built by AeroFarms in Newark, New Jersey. AeroFarms grows a variety of leafy salad greens using a process called "aeroponics," which relies on air and mist. AeroFarms' crops are grown entirely indoors using a reusable cloth medium made from recycled plastics. In the absence of sun exposure, the company uses LED lights that expose plants to only certain types of spectrum. AeroFarms claims it uses 95% less water than a traditional farm thanks to its specially designed root misting system. And it is now building out a new 70,000 square foot facility in a former steel mill. Once completed, it's expected to grow 2 million pounds of greens per year, making it the largest indoor vertical farm in the world. For more on AeroFarms: http://aerofarms.com/ Join the Seeker community! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SeekerNetwork Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seeker-Network/872690716088418?ref=hl Instagram: http://instagram.com/seekernetwork Tumblr: http://seekernetwork.tumblr.com App - iOS http://seekernetwork.com/ios App - Android http://seekernetwork.com/android
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it does not consume water, but it consumes energy
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YES
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yea whenever your grow plants instead of animals flesh you definitely help out the planet and all of the life that benefits
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this is the America I love
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There is no food production problem or else that would have been part of your video. I think any type of growing that doesn't involve using soil is a much better idea and could save the world time, space, energy, water and money. Thirdly the problem is not starting businesses like these to increase food production, but educating the population that supporting standard soil farms harms the earth and that they should either support new models, or grow their own plants.
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I like to know the cost/benefit analysis. How much it cost to build/maintain a vertical farm and how much food/money return. This is the only way we could tell if this is a net benefit to humans. It needs to be a net gain, not a net lost
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cancer
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Absolutely
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This is the future
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Lol... What happend with planting vegetables outside so it can grow with SUNLIGHT.. I don't eat frankenstein food. You cannot take something from it's natural nature and change it like that.
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I want to learn about this, how to do it, all the essentials. Where is a good place to learn? Are their any opportunities for OJT? Like to set up something like this in the Philippines.
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THE PROBLEM WITH TRADITIONAL FARMING IS THAT GMO/PESTICIDES/HERBICIDES ETC ARE BEING USED. NO TILL SOLUTIONS AND NON GMO IS THE WAY TO GO. GROWING IN CLOTH THAT IS MADE FROM RECYCLED PLASTIC IS NOT HEALTHY!
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yea sure, why not.. we already have fake attitudes, why not fake food!
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everything is profitable if you are a Rosenberg or Rotschild etc.
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this is future farming???
cus its less water????
what about electrycity???
its 95% less water, but 100% electric -
wait... if you use the energy from the sun, doesn't it make you have even less energy footprint? :O (1:23)
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this is genius
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Food grown in a lab? Poison!
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This idea PLUS going vegan. That's the future. But mankind is not ready for the future yet
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Ergonomics? You just hire people who're accomplished technical climbers and bungee jumpers?