Simple diagram of a hydroponic system. They just pump it back through the system.
Posted on 08/20/2018 5:54:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We all starve on lettuce and good intentions.
Bacon
Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming, Whether You Like It or Not
https://www.wired.com/story/lab-grown-meat/
A picture would be a lot easier to explain what it is
Bingo!
The only reason this could work is if the gimmickiness was attractive enough to potential customers to warrant the extra cost. Like paying more for "organic" products.
I am in Texas. It will be pasture or finished feed lot.
When Nolan Ryan starts sells lab meat, then I will be in the ground.
The market for lab grown meat will be quickly overshadowed by massive supplies of 3D printed meat.
Fine, doesn’t mean I have to eat it.
No, they did not invent hydroponics but have engineered the vertical farm with the detail and scope of a state of the art soft drink manufacturing facility. Very impressive and I am looking forward to seeing how the economics pan out in actual operation versus the detailed prediction used to justify the capital commitment.
I think the world population was around 100 quadrillion people.
Anyway, each super-skyscraper was completely self-sustaining and at least 10,000 stories high - with many higher than that. It would take occupants a lifetime to discover every nook and cranny of the super-skyscraper they were born in.
Not to mention the basements, would would stretch several hundred stories into the ground.
Millions of people or more would live in each one of these super-skyscrapers.
These structures were so gigantic that over time, the occupants began evolving their own language and culture so that going to the building adjacent was equivalent to entering a foreign country. You would need a passport to gain entry and you would need to obey the laws of that particular structure which could be radically different.
For example, one building required the wearing of women's clothing, whether you were male or female biologically. Another building mandated a maximum age of 30 years. Once you reached 30 years, you were to sacrifice yourself to become food for the livestock being raised.
So the super-skyscrapers basically became their own nations with their own government and military. Wars between buildings were common.
People basically spent their lives in the building they were born in. As the population increased, additional stories would be built upwards and downwards (into the earth). Because the upper stories went into the upper atmosphere, the buildings had to be pressurized and built like spaceships.
Some buildings were more powerful than others and stretched ever higher into the sky. I think one of them ended up being nearly 500 miles above the earth's surface and had a population of several billion people. Constantly building upwards.
I forget exactly how the story ends but there was some kind of massive world war and trillions and trillions of people died. It was a crazy scene. Buildings were set on fire a couple thousands stories above the ground and there were still people thousands of stories above that had no idea what was going on far below them - in the same building.
Simple diagram of a hydroponic system. They just pump it back through the system.
As high as the home of the Fee Fi Fo Fum giant.
/Sarcasm alert/
Link please.
Thank you for the excellent post.
I have a book, "Hydroponics, the Bengal System", by Sholto Douglas, 1955. It works, there is zero runoff.
Green Mountain Harvest Hydroponic in Vermont is doing well. Fully automated.
I cannot believe the ignorant remarks by Freepers on any somewhat technical subject, where they know so little, they don't know what they don't know.
Makes us look like idiots for the possible new person thinking of fleeing the democrat party.
Maybe do a little online research before typing foolish gibberish?
How the high purity water is produced and how the blowdown is handled will have a very large impact on economics. There are only three companies I am acquainted with that have the rock solid process breadth and industrial qualities to handle the total water side technologies. One is a USA company, another is a European company and the third is Israeli. The Israeli company probably has the best global resume or at least did 5 years ago when I was working on a related system. Sorry Japan, etc, you guys are not likely to be in the game.
I thought tall objects were not supposed to placed near airports.
No doubt it’s great, and extremely efficient...once you exclude the cost of building the thing.
You’ve been drinking your namesake?
Don’t give up hope for the future tomato.
Seedless watermelons were terrible when they first hit the market. This year they are consistently excellent.
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