Aeroponics in the news with “vertical gardens”
An angry Mother Nature and increasing urbanization have led Columbia’s Dickson Despommier to urge agriculturalists to consider tilling high-rises.
Using grow lights and conveyor belts powered by renewable energy sources, Despommier and his students came up with an outline (www.verticalfarm.com ) in which approximately 100 kinds of fruits and vegetables would grow on upper floors with lower floors housing chickens and fish subsisting on the plant waste.
This may all sound like pie in the sky, but Despommier says his skyscraper farm has aroused the interest of scientists and investors around the world. And though the project is still in the blueprint phase, if it pans out, not only will large numbers of individuals be able to source their food locally, but ecosystems destroyed by years of exposure to toxic pesticides will also be restored.
Our farming technology includes hydroponics, which uses 70 percent less water than normal agriculture. We also use aeroponics, which uses 70 percent less water than hydroponics. Indoors, we can control everything including temperature and humidity as well as nutrition.
Proposed vertical farming designs presented in “The Living Landscape: Farming the Urban Skyline” by Blake Kurasek
The original article and interview are from http://www.miller-mccune.com by Arnie Cooper and can be found here.
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