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There's so much preoccupation with food shortages and starvation, it's nice to see something good for a change
Oct 27, 2022
“New carbon dioxide ventilators could turn fumes into fertilizer to bring vegetable patches to high rise rooftops, suggests a new study.
It wasn’t just suggested, the study included an experiment that found spinach by the new air vents grew four-times larger than the other plants.
The breakthrough is a promising development for healthier city life, say scientists.
Scientists at Boston University created new technology that turned carbon dioxide (CO2) pumped from building air vents into fertilizer to improve the challenging plant-growing conditions for rooftop plant-life.
Rooftop vegetable gardens—big ones even—can be found in cities around the world, but they’re mostly hydroponic systems, receiving nutrients and water via a special mist channeled through tubes.
Rooftop farms and gardens are often suggested as ways to improve air quality, but conditions are difficult. Plants are often smaller and less healthy because the sites catch more solar radiation, wind exposure, and the soil is less moist.
The researchers decided to intercede by repurposing the CO2 emitted from building exhaust into a fertilizer.”
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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new...makes-spinach-grow-4x-bigger-in-roof-gardens/
Sep 8, 2020
“Rooftop gardening is becoming very popular as a means of getting high-quality produce into the hearts of the world’s great cities, a method that has the double-advantage of cutting back on tailpipe emissions and spoilage from the otherwise necessary transportation of food.
Launched in 2009, Lufa Farms now has four such rooftop gardens. The latest addition, built atop their own distribution center of 160,000 square feet (15,000 square meters), is about the size of three football fields, and cultivates 100 different varieties of fruits and vegetables using hydroponics.
Looking like something out of a Star Trek episode, hydroponic gardens utilize pipes in which the roots of the plant can dangle freely, and where a steam bathes them in essential nutrients and water—eliminating the need for soil entirely."
“The advantage of being on a roof is that you recover a lot of energy from the bottom of the building,” he adds, noting that they can save a significant amount on heating during the notoriously cold Quebec winters.
Savings can also be found in the water-use department where Lufa Farms has a rainwater collection system that reduces time spent running taps by 90%, while ladybugs, wasps, and bumblebees work in tandem as both pollinators and pest control.”
More
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rooftop-greenhouse-in-montreal-is-worlds-largest/
Apr 30, 2019
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rooftop-panels-of-microplants-cleanse-polluted-city-air/
JESUS!!!
New Rooftop CO2 Ventilators Funnel Fumes into Fertilizer that Makes Spinach Grow 4x Bigger in Roof Gardens
By Good News NetworkOct 27, 2022
“New carbon dioxide ventilators could turn fumes into fertilizer to bring vegetable patches to high rise rooftops, suggests a new study.
It wasn’t just suggested, the study included an experiment that found spinach by the new air vents grew four-times larger than the other plants.
The breakthrough is a promising development for healthier city life, say scientists.
Scientists at Boston University created new technology that turned carbon dioxide (CO2) pumped from building air vents into fertilizer to improve the challenging plant-growing conditions for rooftop plant-life.
Rooftop vegetable gardens—big ones even—can be found in cities around the world, but they’re mostly hydroponic systems, receiving nutrients and water via a special mist channeled through tubes.
Rooftop farms and gardens are often suggested as ways to improve air quality, but conditions are difficult. Plants are often smaller and less healthy because the sites catch more solar radiation, wind exposure, and the soil is less moist.
The researchers decided to intercede by repurposing the CO2 emitted from building exhaust into a fertilizer.”
More
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new...makes-spinach-grow-4x-bigger-in-roof-gardens/
World’s Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse in Montreal is as Big as 3 Football Fields – Now Can Feed 2% of the City
By Andy CorbleySep 8, 2020
“Rooftop gardening is becoming very popular as a means of getting high-quality produce into the hearts of the world’s great cities, a method that has the double-advantage of cutting back on tailpipe emissions and spoilage from the otherwise necessary transportation of food.
Launched in 2009, Lufa Farms now has four such rooftop gardens. The latest addition, built atop their own distribution center of 160,000 square feet (15,000 square meters), is about the size of three football fields, and cultivates 100 different varieties of fruits and vegetables using hydroponics.
Looking like something out of a Star Trek episode, hydroponic gardens utilize pipes in which the roots of the plant can dangle freely, and where a steam bathes them in essential nutrients and water—eliminating the need for soil entirely."
“The advantage of being on a roof is that you recover a lot of energy from the bottom of the building,” he adds, noting that they can save a significant amount on heating during the notoriously cold Quebec winters.
Savings can also be found in the water-use department where Lufa Farms has a rainwater collection system that reduces time spent running taps by 90%, while ladybugs, wasps, and bumblebees work in tandem as both pollinators and pest control.”
More
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rooftop-greenhouse-in-montreal-is-worlds-largest/
Rooftop Panels of Tiny Plants Can Cleanse Polluted Air at 100 Times the Rate of a Single Tree
By McKinley CorbleyApr 30, 2019
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rooftop-panels-of-microplants-cleanse-polluted-city-air/
JESUS!!!