Seems a bit silly.
Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
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Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#22The real question is if we are changing a very productive system for a not soo good one. Octopuses growth much quicker than strawerries, and are also more expensive. Any aquaculture system in the same area will provide much more human food and better revenues (you are using a 3d volume for production instead a 2d surface). Marine soil is not apt to cultivate, so you need to put terrestrial soil underwater (or hydropo…
Octopuses are some of the smartest animals. Not a vegetarian, but I can't eat one. It's like eating a monkey.
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#23The real question is if we are changing a very productive system for a not soo good one. Octopuses growth much quicker than strawerries, and are also more expensive. Any aquaculture system in the same area will provide much more human food and better revenues (you are using a 3d volume for production instead a 2d surface). Marine soil is not apt to cultivate, so you need to put terrestrial soil underwater (or hydropo…
Octopuses are some of the smartest animals. Not a vegetarian, but I can't eat one. It's like eating a monkey.
Well, if this make you feel better, only dumbest octopuses will be caught and fried. They have short lives in any case.
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#24The real question is if we are changing a very productive system for a not soo good one. Octopuses growth much quicker than strawerries, and are also more expensive. Any aquaculture system in the same area will provide much more human food and better revenues (you are using a 3d volume for production instead a 2d surface). Marine soil is not apt to cultivate, so you need to put terrestrial soil underwater (or hydropo…
> There is also a real possibility of contamination of beaches with manure after a storm. One of the few advantages of underwater agriculture would be the absence of storms. Only a few meters down, you won't notice a storm at all.
Trust me, you will notice it. River deltas are made of sediments and carry heavy stones and trunks for several km after a strong storm. Even the slightest flood will nuke your small underwater plastic balloon and carry the remains many miles offshore.
If you want to have any opportunity with underwater "put-some-activity-here" you absolutely need to have a way to put all your stuff safely out of the sea before a gale or a strong storm. I will not recommend to invest a single cent in underwater permanent activity that do not have a solid plan B for bad weather days.
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#25Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what being under the ocean has to do with anything? You can get humidity in a simple greenhouse, and there is no more CO2 in air exposed to the ocean than there is in ordinary air.
Ocean-floor real estate is very abundant.
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#26I see it 20 years from now: "Ocean floor crops: Gift or curse? Ocean floor pollution and released nutrients ecosystem problems"
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#27The real question is if we are changing a very productive system for a not soo good one. Octopuses growth much quicker than strawerries, and are also more expensive. Any aquaculture system in the same area will provide much more human food and better revenues (you are using a 3d volume for production instead a 2d surface). Marine soil is not apt to cultivate, so you need to put terrestrial soil underwater (or hydropo…
You compare apples to oranges.
Octopi would need food to live and that food is a huge cost in resources. Octopi consume a feed that could have been human to begin with. Plants need only water and reused plant material or any other natural fertilizer.
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#28Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what being under the ocean has to do with anything? You can get humidity in a simple greenhouse, and there is no more CO2 in air exposed to the ocean than there is in ordinary air.
I'd think of it as part art project, part developing technology that might one day be useful else where.
The dangers in sending down divers to pick strawberries alone make it not practical as a business.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There is also a real possibility of contamination of beaches with manure after a storm. One of the few advantages of underwater agriculture would be the absence of storms. Only a few meters down, you won't notice a storm at all.
Trust me, you will notice it. River deltas are made of sediments and carry heavy stones and trunks for several km after a strong storm. Even the slightest flood will nuke your small underwater plastic balloon and carry the remains many miles offshore. If you want to have any opportunity with underwater "put-some-activity-here" you absolutely need to have a way to put all your stuff safely out of the sea before a gale…
I think they've implemented the plan "don't put it in a river outlet"
Re: Underwater greenhouses are growing strawberries
#30"The company is also planning to launch a crowdfunding campaign next week to support further development." Why would a CEO wait till the week after an article with this many readers to launch such a campaign? Surely he could have launched it before this article?
Probably because their campaign is not directed at americans, this is a small italian company so they likely focus on advertising in italian.