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| Volume 6, Issue 9 |
Fall Sale!
Looking to overwinter those prized plants? Now is the time to take advantage of LED Grow Master's plant lighting Fall
sale for seriously reduced pricing.
Shipping Container Gardens
As a natural result of importing more than we export, the United States takes in far more shipping containers than we
fill. The imbalance leaves our seaports with stock piles of empty containers crying to be recycled. Human innovation has
responded with shipping container sculptures, homes, malls, motels, playhouses,
and more recently as a portable year round garden. The idea of growing in a
shipping container is ingenious on many levels.
The containers themselves are inexpensive and nearly indestructible with over
320 square feet of growing space in each 40 foot container. The infrastructure for
transport already exists so they can be easily moved by ship, truck, or train. Once
outfitted with the proper environmental controls- the shipping container could provide
an instant garden anywhere in the world with access to electricity.
A company called "PodPonics" in Atlanta has provided a model for local food
production growing greens for local businesses. The CEO, Matt Liotta, is producing
the equivalent of an acres worth of lettuce in each 40 foot container. The containers
can be placed close to the point of consumption on land that is otherwise non-arable
and produce greens 365 days a year regardless of the weather. The system
developed by PodPonics is able to produce these greens using a fraction of the
water required for traditional farming and without the use of pesticides.
One of the hurdles to true efficiency has been the energy and cooling costs
associated with running traditional lighting year round. By integrating LED Grow
Master lighting into the system, we are able to drastically reduce these costs and
open up new possibilities. Growing crops like microgreens we could eliminate the
traditional lighting entirely using up to 90% less energy with the LED light bar
producing virtually no heat within the container. For crops such as tomatoes,
running the hybrid LED light bar and HID system can reduce energy consumption
and cooling requirements.
LED plant lighting is designed for use with alternative energy sources; opening the
door to off grid shipping container gardens. We can run 50 LED light bars off of
fifteen 12 volt sealed batteries for 28 days. The future could bring a day where instead of delivering food aid, we deliver
shipping container gardens equipped with solar panels to famine stricken areas. Fresh perishables are already shipped
in a controlled transport environment, with the addition of LEDs and solar panels we may someday see plants that are
actually growing in transit to be harvested on site. Without the heat of traditional lighting the possibility of multi-tier
planting beds is feasible replacing one level with three. While an end to our trade deficit doesn't appear to be around
the corner, the shipping container garden may soon be. --AL
Looking to overwinter those prized plants? Now is the time to take advantage of LED Grow Master's plant lighting Fall
sale for seriously reduced pricing.
Shipping Container Gardens
As a natural result of importing more than we export, the United States takes in far more shipping containers than we
fill. The imbalance leaves our seaports with stock piles of empty containers crying to be recycled. Human innovation has
responded with shipping container sculptures, homes, malls, motels, playhouses,
and more recently as a portable year round garden. The idea of growing in a
shipping container is ingenious on many levels.
The containers themselves are inexpensive and nearly indestructible with over
320 square feet of growing space in each 40 foot container. The infrastructure for
transport already exists so they can be easily moved by ship, truck, or train. Once
outfitted with the proper environmental controls- the shipping container could provide
an instant garden anywhere in the world with access to electricity.
A company called "PodPonics" in Atlanta has provided a model for local food
production growing greens for local businesses. The CEO, Matt Liotta, is producing
the equivalent of an acres worth of lettuce in each 40 foot container. The containers
can be placed close to the point of consumption on land that is otherwise non-arable
and produce greens 365 days a year regardless of the weather. The system
developed by PodPonics is able to produce these greens using a fraction of the
water required for traditional farming and without the use of pesticides.
One of the hurdles to true efficiency has been the energy and cooling costs
associated with running traditional lighting year round. By integrating LED Grow
Master lighting into the system, we are able to drastically reduce these costs and
open up new possibilities. Growing crops like microgreens we could eliminate the
traditional lighting entirely using up to 90% less energy with the LED light bar
producing virtually no heat within the container. For crops such as tomatoes,
running the hybrid LED light bar and HID system can reduce energy consumption
and cooling requirements.
LED plant lighting is designed for use with alternative energy sources; opening the
door to off grid shipping container gardens. We can run 50 LED light bars off of
fifteen 12 volt sealed batteries for 28 days. The future could bring a day where instead of delivering food aid, we deliver
shipping container gardens equipped with solar panels to famine stricken areas. Fresh perishables are already shipped
in a controlled transport environment, with the addition of LEDs and solar panels we may someday see plants that are
actually growing in transit to be harvested on site. Without the heat of traditional lighting the possibility of multi-tier
planting beds is feasible replacing one level with three. While an end to our trade deficit doesn't appear to be around
the corner, the shipping container garden may soon be. --AL
| Multi-Tier System |
LED Gardener September, 2011