–A Japanese farmer builds an impressive indoor veggie factory
http://www.gereports.com/post/91250246340/lettuce-see-the-future-japanese-farmer-builds
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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What if we could reduce the amount of light – and therefore energy consumption – needed for indoor farming? Erico Mattos has found a way to let plants tell us just how much light they need.
Erico Mattos is a scientist inspired by his stint at the Singularity University’s graduate studies program to put his agronomic engineering training to use to improve food economics so that food supply can cost-effectively keep up with population growth.
He holds a Ph.D from the University of Georgia and has co-authored two patents on the bioogical feedback control of LED lights. He is currently the co-founder of PhytoSynthetix.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
What a time to be alive….
Lettuce in abundance!
Even if I don't get to live to see the day all food is abundant, I see the beginnings!
No longer do I have to worry about my lettuce consumption
What will be the next food I can say the same for!? :D
Use solar panels to generate power and how much water are we saving doing this indoors?
problem is with japan is the weather, never sun always cloudy and cold. you could never get this production outside. in addtion to not being any availabe land anywhere. its a great idea for japan but this would not work in texas
That has to be tens of thousands of watts..
I can see this beeing powered by wood-gas-generators. Zero carbon footprint, and free fuel
omg you are so beautiful
I'm not sure this really has a bigger energy footprint than a conventional farm producing the same amount of food. Consider the energy used by tractors, energy used to produce and transport pesticides (this would use less or none, since a screen door can keep the bugs out), and the cost of transporting that 100-fold amount of water a conventional farm uses. Finally, if these can be used close to cities, the energy used to transport already-grown food plummets.
Even if it does use slightly more energy (as as above, I'm not sure it does), it's all electricity and can thus be gotten, at least in part, from solar, wind, or biofuels. Finally, whatever its energy footprint, its WATER footprint is itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny, like a yellow polka-dot bikini.
And yeah, GE is using it for promotion. As long as it works and is an improvement over what we're doing now, I don't care if GE gets some promotion out of it.
as long as it is all power by solar panels then yes I'm all for it.
Given the efficiency #'s alone, this is a game change for agriculture. Urban farming in dense cities could take off; and this is a bonanza for highly urban regions that import absolutely everything. Having a domestic industry to supply local needs would greatly shave off needs of some imports. As renewable energy production advances, this gets more and more attractive. Rock on!
Crap.
Growing using the sun or high powered sodium light bulbs ≠ LED growing AT ALL.
I have one friend who goes the LED route and another doing the high powered light bulbs and the difference in yield and overall quality is like night vs. day. Yes, more energy efficient etc. etc. but LED growing is a crap novelty.
I hope he gets rich off this.
But at the same time I don't want the little farmers going out of business.
This could be good in very crowded cities in order to reduce shipping costs.
Growing lettuce is easier than growing weeds, it is seriously the easiest thing you can grow… I don't mean marijuana. 1:45 Exactly. This is only interesting because of scale. A lot cheaper outdoors? No. Indoor is inexpensive when you calculate in yield, turnover for harvesting… etc. My indoor garden costs me about 1 dollar a day with electricity costs, and where I live electricity is very expensive. Growing outdoors with pests is a pain in the fucking ass. You have rodents, spider mites, aphids, snails, fungus etc. I have a closet full of cape goose berries (20 cape goose berry plants) (100grams costs 3 dollars about 10 cape gooseberries (supermarket cost), extremely expensive to buy) I am growing with a 150watt cfl… it's easy, plus 60 strawberry plants being fed by 1 65watt cfl… Seriously more Japanese farmers should be doing this, when you find out how expensive fruit is in Japan, it's crazy.
Bout fucking time, do you know how fucking expensive food is in Japan… fucking nuts.
This will be our way to the stars.
If something can be done in a building, it can be done on several levels.
Farmscrapers, ho!
Sure, problem-solving… But there is no comparison with sun-grown food. I'm sorry.
japan is land pooor…..so maybe hi efficiency farming will relieve global pressure to grab land and other resouces
What are you doing with your hands? Stop it
so all we gotta do is stick a cow under a LED light and it will give us quick and nutririous beef?
the flash of light can mess up a flowering cycle in certain plants. see ed rosenthal