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Solar Powered Floating Farm Could Provide 9855 Tons Of Food Per Year
by John Vibes
True Activist
As solar energy is quickly rising in efficiency and lowering in price, more creative solutions are being devised to fully bring this technology into widespread mainstream use.
One possible idea that opens many possibilities for solar power, is solar farms that actually float on water.
According to recent reports, one company named Forward Thinking Architecture from Barcelona, Spain is taking this idea a step further, by farming food as well as energy from the sun.
The company has estimated that their project will yield at least 8,152 tons of vegetables a year and 1,703 tons of fish a year.
Javier F. Ponce, one of the minds behind the project said that, “Facing the current challenges of cities growing, land consumption and climate change, I believe projects like the Smart Floating Farms can help change some of the existing paradigms which have led us to the present situation and open new possibilities which can improve the quality of human life and the environment. Based on a Floating Multi-layered strategy which combines Aquaculture(fish), Hydroponics(crops) and Photovoltaics(solar power), we aim that these floating farms can be located close to areas where food is more needed and potentially become automated Farm Clusters run by the use of IT technologies/software.”
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2015/05/solar-powered-floating-farm-could.html
