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| May, 2010 Volume 5, Issue 5 |
How LED Grow Lights Will Revolutionize Food Researchers at the University of Arizona worked with the United States Department of Agriculture to find out just how much food the average American family threw out. The answer- over 470 pounds of food in the average household falls victim to spoilage and lands in the trash. Americans throw out 25% of their produce because it has gone bad. This is just the final link in the problem. Food is damaged and spoiled in transit, and then again at the grocery before we even get a chance to buy it. Not only is this an incredibly wasteful method, it causes food to undergo additional processing to prevent it from being spoiled before and during transport. There are many methods utilized to make food "safe" including pasteurization, boiling, refrigeration, freezing, drying, vacuum treatment, antimicrobial agents, and ionizing radiation to name a few. What if there was a solution that not only decreased the need for processing but enabled us to buy fresh picked fruit and vegetables? This solution could well be found in the LGM5 LED grow light. What we know is that the decay begins at the moment food is harvested. Breaking the initial plant tissue lets in microorganisms that begin this process of decomposition. Right now, harvest is the first step in getting food to the consumer, leaving food to spoil through transport and storage. The LGM5 opens the possibility of keeping plants growing through transit and in storage, leaving harvesting as the final step- making "fresh produce" truly fresh. Imagine a system of production where plants are grown on movable plots. Instead of harvesting the vegetables and then loading them onto the truck- we move the entire plot into a storage vessel then onto the truck. Vessels are equipped with the ability to control temperature, carbon dioxide, and humidity. It is adding the light that has proven problematic in the past. Our only lighting options were fragile, high voltage lights, that created a great deal of heat; making supplemental lighting in transit unpractical. The LGM5 has changed all of that by providing durable, low wattage lighting. A small battery pack can easily run the LED grow lights for eight weeks at a time while adding only trace amounts of heat to the environment. We can revolutionize food storage by combining the harvest and transportation stages into one. Instead of unloading produce to cold storage within grocery stores, the climate controlled containers could be left with growing produce to harvest as needed. Some crops, such as lettuce, can literally keep growing in the produce section by installing the LGM5s within the store shelves. Consumers would be well served by installing LGM grow lights under their kitchen cabinets or cold pantry. This way the produce and herbs they just paid too much for at the store could be quickly placed under the LGM grow lights for continued life support. If you listen carefully you may hear the "snap" of fresh vegetables as the food revolution approaches...--AL Aqua-Bar in the Science Fair For those who haven't followed along... Matt G. is a high school student who has been experimenting with the SolarOasis Aqua-Bar for the last several years. You can see some of his original work here. With the support of his school science department, he was able to do this year's experiments in the school. The project culminated with their annual science fair for students all over the state. Out of over 75 projects and 10 judges- Matt took second place at his first science fair. We are proud. If you are interested in the pictures and observations that won him the award- Click here.--AL
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