Farms: Vertical Farms and the Future of Agriculture
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Share on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1x6rHqL Modern agriculture comes with some pretty big drawbacks, but an elegant new approach called vertical farming could be the solution we’re looking for! We've already seen successful vertical farms like Sky Greens in Singapore and The Plant in Chicago - so what would this look like on the large-scale? If you were designing an urban agriculture environment, how would you do it and what would you grow there? Let us know in the comments! -------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to Fw:Thinking: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=fwthinking For the audio podcast, blog and more, visit the Fw:Thinking website: http://www.fwthinking.com Fw:Thinking on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/fwthinking Jonathan Stickland on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jonstrickland Fw:Thinking on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FWThinking01 Fw:Thinking on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108500616405453822675/
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I'd go the opposite direction, underground, underground vertical farms (granted with advances in subterranean building and excavation) with genetically modified crops could produce all year round food by purifying waste water from the city above.
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use mirrors to reflect the sunlight back at the center.
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I think the towers would work better if they were a donut shape instead of a dome, for more solar aspects. Or bounce sunlight down through the middle via strategically placed reflective surfaces. Already available on a domestic scale for retro-fitting sky lights in buildings. It's called the Sun Tunnel.
Grow a polyculture instead of monoculture crops. Put plants that thrive in semi-shade in the shadier sections and leave the full sun positions for plants that need it. -
How about food balloons. Huge containers of warmed gas covered by a super light fibrous growing substrate. It absorbs water from the atmosphere and grows some sort of leafy green. When it accumulates enough biomass it sinks and lands somewhere in a food desert.
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mirrors lots of mirrors
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my favorite idea would be to introduce this method or variation of it to be set up vertical farms over road ways so you can literately drive underneath these plants bringing some much needed green into our citys and highways the cost wouldn't be to great using light weight materials and considering the water needed is 90% less then conventional farms it would be a sound government investment especially in arid climets.
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This idea not only can produce food but also energy. Recycle your water, light up LEDs instead of bulbs and use solar energy for instance.
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As a matter of fact, I think there's another and absolutely relevant problem to add: the "Light Problem". I'm talking about Chemtrails and their function of blocking, by filtering, sunlight.
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upper floors would be plants other floors would be animals, so now i can have a full meal from one building.
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I wouldn't be growing GMOed crops!!!
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can't you just put like a giant hole through the center of the building or use mirrors to direct sunlight from different times of the day?
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there systems that can send sunlight directly via optic cables and mirrors. so can put one collector on the roof that will send lite itself through entire structure without using a single watt of energy!
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I think the vertical farm is a VERY viable solution provided you don't try to reinvent nature. If we took design cues from nature, it would be unnecessary to use artificial lighting, or a very minimal amount of it. Take a look at the pine tree, for example. The trunk of the tree is the main artery, so to speak, through which all of the nutrients and water necessary are transported. The trunk also supports all of the branches. The branches are arranged in such a manner that each branch (ideally) gets sufficient sunlight to generate energy via photosynthesis. If you look at how the branches are arranged, the bottom branches have the most needles to the outside, and the branches above sit closer to the tree so as to not block the bottom branches from getting sunlight. As you go up the tree, the branches sit closer and closer.
If we built a vertical farm like a pine tree, it would likely look as follows. The service elevator, water and nutrient pipes, and other utilities would all run up the central column. At the base of the tree, where it is largest, is where all of the various preparation facilities would be. As you go up, you're servicing less and less plant life as there is less and less room to grow, so too does the column shrink. It would be a serious of ring like platforms built around the service column that each shrink in size as you go up. -
With today's advances in fiber optics, is it possible to attach a large sunlight collector on the roof and convey that light, via fiber optics, to light disbursing fixtures throughout the building?
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Tower Gardens the only way to go!!! There are lots of big growers using them. Uses only 10% of water then conventional growing.
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if you go to "envisioning emerging technology".com it says vertical farming will arrive in 2025-2026.
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My thesis is about urban farm. Can you please suggest reliable sources for me to use?
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I hope this will become the reality, not only can we save plenty of forests from being cut down, but we may even give back some farm land back to nature.