Shadow Master
Banned
For the development of a thread that everyone can use as a common resource on Artificial Growing Environments {AGE}.
My personal focus is on AGE technics that could have been developed from say 1900 onwards, but I am open to anything, really.
I read an issue of Popular Science that had an artists conception of a modern skyscraper, but the whole building was a gigantic multi-story greenhouse sitting atop a grocery store.
That really wow'ed me, and got me to thinking.
So, what could have been developed technology wise, in each decade, starting in 1900, in terms of AGE's?
The standard greenhouse comes to mind, and thoughts of hydroponics getting started, but when did these things actually get started? Could they ever be built in vast numbers or in terms of sq mi farmland equivelants? Can anyone post links to sites/articles where I could go to read up on these?
Anyone who remembers my whacky posts here, will already know some of the crazy ideas I come up with, and this information will definately be fed into more such. OTOH, with a better understanding of what is, perhaps I can make better (less outlandish, more possible) and more thought provoking 'crazy ideas', that if nothing else, might just possibly be entertaining for the forum community.
This is a very crude, limited beginning for research into this quite interesting field.
Anyone interested in this field?
My personal focus is on AGE technics that could have been developed from say 1900 onwards, but I am open to anything, really.
I read an issue of Popular Science that had an artists conception of a modern skyscraper, but the whole building was a gigantic multi-story greenhouse sitting atop a grocery store.
That really wow'ed me, and got me to thinking.
So, what could have been developed technology wise, in each decade, starting in 1900, in terms of AGE's?
The standard greenhouse comes to mind, and thoughts of hydroponics getting started, but when did these things actually get started? Could they ever be built in vast numbers or in terms of sq mi farmland equivelants? Can anyone post links to sites/articles where I could go to read up on these?
Anyone who remembers my whacky posts here, will already know some of the crazy ideas I come up with, and this information will definately be fed into more such. OTOH, with a better understanding of what is, perhaps I can make better (less outlandish, more possible) and more thought provoking 'crazy ideas', that if nothing else, might just possibly be entertaining for the forum community.
This is a very crude, limited beginning for research into this quite interesting field.
Anyone interested in this field?
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