Comments on: Japanese “Farmers” Trade Boots for Lab Coats

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:54:33 +0000

Population explosion will make veganism a rule not a passing fancy in America and someone has to supply all those veggies! This way we can control quality more closely and incidentally employ more people – win win I say!

By: Dr. Greenthumb

Dr. Greenthumb — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:47:02 +0000

Haha…i like the undue fear you express. What i don't get is where your morality regarding plants comes from? If you so cared about the earth then you would realize that a system like this would effectively solve or at least alleviate some of the damaging effects that modern farming practices have on the environment and more importantly, our health. Having factories that produce healthy, nutritious, and readily available food for our ever growing world population would not only improve our health, size of our wallets, and lives but it would allow the massive tracts of land used for agriculture now to revert back to their natural rhythms thus increasing the health and prosperity of the world's various ecologies. Furthermore, due to the lack of pathogens the plants encounter we will be allowed to avoid use of harmful pesticides, eliminate the emergence of deadly pesticide resistant pathogens that are a result of extended exposure to said pesticides, and be able to utilize natural/renewable fertilizers to their maximum potential without fear of crop loss. What were you saying about dystopias again?…i was too busy proving you wrong. Kudos to the japanese for actual trying to solve problems.

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:39:25 +0000

Growing food from the earth has been working for thousands of years. Fixing something that ain't broke sounds like what's going on here. I do like the advantage of more harvests tho.

By: el dusto

el dusto — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:51:16 +0000

this isn't new. it's pretty standard hydroponics. yeah, they were doing it at Epcot in the 80's. as a trained horticulturalist, i can say that it is VERY efficient and rather cost-effective. however, it would be best if energy inputs came from sustainable sources such as solar, geothermal, etc. Uncle B had the right idea with collecting waste energy from cooling towers.

By: aliaskajan

aliaskajan — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:36:54 +0000

cool……..