Smart Floating Farm: Forward Thinking Architecture’s invention could help feed the world - TomoNews
BARCELONA, SPAIN — A Barcelona-based company has developed a solar powered floating farm system that could ease growing food demand around the world. Smart Floating Farms, otherwise known as SFF, was developed by Forward Thinking Architecture. The idea was inspired by traditional grid-shape fish farms in Asia. The structure is 200 meters wide and 350 meters long, which is roughly the size of 6 football fields. They can be connected to form a cluster of modules. The floating farm has three levels: the top level is installed with photovoltaic panels to harvest sunlight for electricity and it has rainwater collectors for irrigation purposes; second level serves as a greenhouse for the vegetables, which are grown without soil under the hydroponic system; and the ground level is used as a fish farm on the open sea, as well as a fish egg hatchery, a slaughterhouse and a storage room for the fish. All the modules are centrally controlled by software via Cloud technology. The production data will be analysed and can be used to make comparisons on food needs for specific cities. Each SFF is estimated to have a maximum production of 8.152 tons of vegetables and 1.703 tons of fish per year. The floating farms are ideal for densely populated cities near coastal areas such as Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong. ------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.com Check out our Android app:http://bit.ly/1sYjIzc Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Get top stories delivered to your inbox everyday: http://bit.ly/tomo-newsletter Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus
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This system isn't sustainable. The fish - nets are on open water, so their excrements falls down to the sea floor and destroys the local flora. And hydroponic planting needs a lot of fertilizers, mostly chemical due to the price. The solar on the roof reduce the maximum sun light going to the plants at least by 50%. So the plants are growing slower or need a lot of additional electric lightning.
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i though of this idea a while back haha, ow well
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It's just a dream!
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What about hurricanes or thunderstorms?
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👍👍👍👍
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This sounds very familiar to News direct's report on this.
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Nice
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Good idea! Now I'd like someone to do something to help other countries fight off diseases. And BTW... 100th Comment!
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This idea lost me with the fish farm and slaughterhouse. When will people learn to leave the animals the fuck alone and GO VEGAN.
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Then a storm happens and it is all over.
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Cancer helps the growing food demand better
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How about reducing the human over-population problem. All of this technology is not worth anything if we run out of drinking water. This will guarantee more garbage dumped into the ocean. It will guarantee the alteration of natural light getting into the ocean. Now we can have even bigger feed lots for pollution problems. This is the nature of man, destroy something in the name of survival.
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i hope those things are sturdy
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OMG the Indians of central America actually did this first. I guess they were "first" *puts on nerd glasses
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So wait you mean we have the floating food farms and a chance to end world hunger but put it in the richest areas?
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FUCK SPAIN
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Looks modern that's how I like it
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That sounds genius! But wouldn't they be worried about dangerous weather?
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Fantastic, now people can get paying jobs from this and help solve world hunger.
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Cool
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