So here's even more reason that we do not need illegals in our country to do manual labor.
I'll do my job and let those hydroponic folks do theirs.
LED Farm food is JUNK food & unhealthy.
Real light comes from fire like the sun or wood. 1 million years of human evolution cannot be voided by FAKE light of an LED bulb.
LED grown food long term will make you sick. It lacks the btoad spectrum of sun light. It cannot be simulated without a heat source. But the heat source makes that good light cost more. You must burn something.
Good light is still a chemical reaction not electrical.
Sorry to piss on your Wheaties but the Big State will force this LED piss Wheaties junk food on to people crammed into coffin apartments.
But there is still room for a solar room in every house that delivers great healthy food. But business is instead making the junk version.
this is a nutritional disaster waiting to happen just like factory hog and chicken production.
this is a nutritional disaster waiting to happen just like factory hog and chicken production.
“Each Farmshelf unit costs $7,000, and can produce 10 pounds of herbs per week and 140 heads of lettuce per month, or $350 to $800 worth of produce each month. Farmers pay a $105 monthly subscription fee that includes nutrients and seed pods.”
Do the math. The production cost of a head of lettuce is around $5.00.
Anybody here pay $5.00 for a head of lettuce?
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In the Netherlands—or Holland if you prefer—they are growing almost all their crops under glass and inside. AND they are a net exporter of food.
Until seeds are all privately owned.
Its a nice, neat, turnkey product for a corporate environment. Let them work out the best design features on their dime.
The Chinese will probably make a knock-off version for $300 - it’s basically just a rack with four trays and four fluorescent light fixtures. Gro-light bulbs are probably a main cost driver.
The home model (one four foot tray, one light fixture), for a reasonable price, would be something I’d be interested in. It could be enough to keep me rolling in fresh basil, cilantro and mint; and probably some salad greens.
One big thing this can’t do, is any vegetables that need pollination - basically for herbs and salad greens.
My mother worked with a Vietnamese guy who grew Bean Sprouts at home in his bathtub and sold them to restaurants ,yuck , I stopped eating packaged beans sprouts
I think these things will remain fringe, until general purpose household robots come along.
When you have a general purpose robot, it will initially be hard to keep them productively busy 24x7. Housecleaning is probably no more than an hour a day, and security would be an on-call function, just monitoring sensors in the background. Growing and cooking your food will probably be an early selling feature of the general purpose domestic robot.
That is when home systems will be really turnkey, and production can really be optimized for flavor and nutrition, with world class AI expertise, and super-human sensors for ripeness or disease.
Such a general purpose robot could probably run a few side businesses for you, a few hours a day each. With software updates making them instant experts, they could fix whatever needs fixing, and potentially even make a lot of what you might need.
Good fresh food is a universal requirement. Everyone is going to want it - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Another expensive gimmick to separate fools from their money.
Hydroponics is hard. I’ve seen more than one expensive system fail. They become fouled with contaminants.
These are future coat hangers.