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amannamedtruth · 01-12-2015, 05:33 PM

Pretty cool. Too bad they don't do organic!

https://weburbanist.com/2015/01/11/wo...re-productive/

Mikell · 01-13-2015, 12:54 AM

Ah, very cool. I assumed Asia when I read the title :P

J-zee · 01-25-2015, 04:41 AM

Cool spot

squarepush3r · 01-25-2015, 05:01 AM

wonder what kind of LED's those are?

OGEvilgenius · 01-25-2015, 09:03 AM

It says in the article they were developed and manufactured by GE specifically for their project.

It's interesting for sure.

armedoldhippy · 01-25-2015, 05:08 PM

boy, what a Sea of Green that would make...THOUSANDS of lollipops as far as you could see!

Hank Hemp · 01-25-2015, 05:11 PM

Good post, thanks.

TheRealHash · 01-25-2015, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by amannamedtruth

Pretty cool. Too bad they don't do organic!

https://weburbanist.com/2015/01/11/wo...re-productive/

Nice thread K+ (you may not vote on anymore threads today)

I need some of those LED's!!!

The 100 watt bright eye LED's that DJXX is rocking look decent too-

amannamedtruth · 01-25-2015, 09:03 PM

id like to see how baby greens do under those things. Plant, harvest once a week for a few weeks...great way to get quick greens. I wonder how much the get for a head of butterleaf.

titoon29 · 01-26-2015, 01:59 PM

Interesting R&D, but totally useless as an industrial system.

For sure they did good work on their marketing, but their arguments are extremly short minded from an agricultural point of view, to the point it s almost dishonest.

More details can be found here : https://www.fieldrobotics.org/~ssingh.../SHIMAMURA.pdf

Where you learn p 22 that they use about 370 MWh or 370,000 kWh per month to produce 300,000 lettuces head / 30 tons of lettuce (10,000 / 100 kg per day)

Meaning in term of energy, approx 12 kWh is needed for a kg (2.2 pounds) of lettuce, representing about what you can extract from a gallon of petrol. Yep, a gallon of petrol per kg of lettuce. And that doesn' t account for the energy to manufacture the whole systems, for instance the LEDs.

and 10,000 lettuce head per day @ 100g per head ??? Well, in real life (ask.com) " On average, a head of lettuce weighs about 800 grams"...

80% less food waste ? Their powerpoint mentionned that they waste about 2/3% of the biomass, compare to 30-40% for conventionnal growing. Where the waste go back to the ground, or can be composted, therefore should not be considered as a waste but rather nutrients and water for the soil.

I could probably go on....

Maybe if lettuce was illegal, it would be worth it ^^

T.

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amannamedtruth Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,566	World’s Largest Indoor Farm is 100 Times More Productive Pretty cool. Too bad they don't do organic! https://weburbanist.com/2015/01/11/wo...re-productive/ __________________ Schools, not prisons. Bread, not bombs. 'You forge your own chains.'
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amannamedtruth Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,566	id like to see how baby greens do under those things. Plant, harvest once a week for a few weeks...great way to get quick greens. I wonder how much the get for a head of butterleaf. __________________ Schools, not prisons. Bread, not bombs. 'You forge your own chains.'
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Mikell Dipshit Know-Nothing Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Van Isle, BC Posts: 4,973	Ah, very cool. I assumed Asia when I read the title :P
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J-zee Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Just north of here Posts: 120	Cool spot
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OGEvilgenius Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 662	It says in the article they were developed and manufactured by GE specifically for their project. It's interesting for sure.
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titoon29 Travelling Cannagrapher Penguin ! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: it depends ! Posts: 1,697	Interesting R&D, but totally useless as an industrial system. For sure they did good work on their marketing, but their arguments are extremly short minded from an agricultural point of view, to the point it s almost dishonest. More details can be found here : https://www.fieldrobotics.org/~ssingh.../SHIMAMURA.pdf Where you learn p 22 that they use about 370 MWh or 370,000 kWh per month to produce 300,000 lettuces head / 30 tons of lettuce (10,000 / 100 kg per day) Meaning in term of energy, approx 12 kWh is needed for a kg (2.2 pounds) of lettuce, representing about what you can extract from a gallon of petrol. Yep, a gallon of petrol per kg of lettuce. And that doesn' t account for the energy to manufacture the whole systems, for instance the LEDs. and 10,000 lettuce head per day @ 100g per head ??? Well, in real life (ask.com) " On average, a head of lettuce weighs about 800 grams"... 80% less food waste ? Their powerpoint mentionned that they waste about 2/3% of the biomass, compare to 30-40% for conventionnal growing. Where the waste go back to the ground, or can be composted, therefore should not be considered as a waste but rather nutrients and water for the soil. I could probably go on.... Maybe if lettuce was illegal, it would be worth it ^^ T. __________________ Nepal smoking TOUR Across the Atlantic and beyond : Hashish and Ganja Tales Carribean Sativa Tour !! Australian Strains Report, for Sativa lovers... !! My BUDs Thread
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