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I agree with you. I think there are several issues here:
I agree with you. I think there are several issues here:


Food production is a major source of pollution in the world, it wrecks native ecosystems and generally is not good for our biodiversity. We have to figure out how to produce food for the 1st world, as well as everyone else, without wrecking the environment for everyone. The Seawater Greenhouse is part of the solution.
Food production is a major source of pollution in the world, it wrecks native ecosystems and generally is not good for our biodiversity. We have to figure out how to produce food for the 1st world, as well as everyone else, without completely wrecking the environment. The Seawater Greenhouse is part of the solution.


There is plenty of unproductive land, which can not be used for any food production. We have a major challenge ahead. We need to grow more food. Taking unproductive land, with a minimum of environmental impact and creating food seems like a good thing.
There is plenty of unproductive land, which can not be used for any food production. We have a major challenge ahead. We need to grow more food. Taking unproductive land, with a minimum of environmental impact and creating food seems like a good thing.

Revision as of 12:57, 2 July 2010

Less pesticies > unclear why

@theunk asked @bjelkeman seawatergreenhouses, nice idea! That could openup lost of growingspace. one little comment: less pesticides > unclear why.

The reason why we should be able to use less pesticides in a Seawater Greenhouse is the relatively stable internal climate in the greenhouse. This means that it is easier to keep a good and healthy population of natural enemies. We are still working on the numbers on this, but it is the opinion of one of the worlds most renowned biological control specialists, Prof. Joop van Lenteren, that this will be the case. Joop is working with us on this and we hope to be able to show this conclusively later on.

I will have a look at the essay to see if I can make this clear without significantly adding to the volume of text.

Bjelkeman

Potential 1st world landgrab?

@RooftopJaxx wrote .@bjelkeman ...The Future We Deserve, Seawater into Food http://bit.ly/theFWDbjelkeman1 #theFWD <hope won't turn into '1st world' landgrab

I agree with you. I think there are several issues here:

Food production is a major source of pollution in the world, it wrecks native ecosystems and generally is not good for our biodiversity. We have to figure out how to produce food for the 1st world, as well as everyone else, without completely wrecking the environment. The Seawater Greenhouse is part of the solution.

There is plenty of unproductive land, which can not be used for any food production. We have a major challenge ahead. We need to grow more food. Taking unproductive land, with a minimum of environmental impact and creating food seems like a good thing.

My intent is to make the technology as available as possible. In the long run, this type of technology will be available widely, which can only be a good thing. It may take a while, but just like mobile phones eventually is within reach of everyone, this will get to the same point too in the future.

Bjelkeman

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