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- celotil, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6The only problem with hydroponics, and making it vertical to boot, is convincing your neighbours and the local police that you're NOT growing dope.
Too many people, who will pick up the phone at the first sign of anything they think is illegal or even just immoral, like to whinge and bitch about anything "unusual" or "strange" to anyone who'll listen, and often badger said listeners until something is done.
@Lamien,
Most stuff will scale quite well. The trick is not to approach it from the prospect of trying to scale it up but to scale it "sideways" - if hydroponics works for a small crop of strawberries, for example, and you want to use it on a large crop of strawberries, then make lots of small crops of strawberries, not one huge one.
@Nickolassc,
Any produce will taste like crap if not grown correctly. It's not necessarily hydroponics which is the problem but the farmer not using the right nutrients to compensate for the missing soil. - Nickolassc, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6Hydroponic food tastes like crap. I really hope it isn't "the future of agriculture."
- Garofoli, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6Hydroponically-grown weed is awesome.
- BlackJackJester, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Launch Arco?
- Humpasaur, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2There's low tech options that work even better!
http://www.brainsturbator.com/articles/saving_the_ ... - Nickolassc, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Good soil, compost, and cow manure grows the best tasting food.
;-) - dirtpoorchris, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Try using organic plant food. Works real well for the taste of.... well... n/m.
- BineySyndrome, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1This is news? I remember going on a ride all about this at Disney Epcot when I was a kid.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attract ...
Neat stuff though. - macrumpton, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1It actually scales better than regular farming because it uses so much less water and fertilizer, also the density of the planting means less land needed and less labor for harvesting and no moving heavy dirt around (which uses a lot of gas).
- lornali, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1This is against nature. Will it work?
- hawk0168, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Annnd where do these nutrients that you're supposed to add to the water come from? That's right folks, petrochemicals. A good cropping system will take care of almost all required nutrients without the need for expensive greenhouses.
- donjacko, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1actually no- petrochemicals as the name suggests do not contail sufficient quantities of inorganic chemicals such as phosphate and sulphates so are actually completely useless.
most fertilizers are made by the Haber process and actually it is conceivable that hydrophonics would use less than conventional farming methods - macrumpton, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1It depends on what you feed the plants. They get their taste from the minerals in the growing medium, whether it is soil or water. Add the identical minerals to a hydroponic garden and I don't think you could tell the difference.
- macrumpton, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0Hydroponics can use fertilizer made by typical organic methods of decomposing vegetable matter and manure very easily, in fact because the farms are so much denser there is less energy needed to move the vegetable waste, so it is easier on a hydroponic farm. There is also a system called Aquaponics that uses a combination of a fishtank and a hydroponic garden. The hydroponic garden filters the water from the fishtank by using the nutrients in the water (fish poop) as fertilizer, so you get both fish and vegies to eat with no risk of contaminants in the soil or water.
- skankbowlfight, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0dugg because I dig the hell out of the concept of vertical farms. I get off to looking at chris jacobs' 3d renders of vertical farms. This is the future of farming indeed, we can return the land to the mighty buffalo and gazelles
- Iamien, on 11/23/2008, -7/+2FIRST!
But really. that sounds awesome, Just cannot see it scaling well.
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