WHY
We believe in providing humanity with complementary solutions .The purpose of the Smart Floating Farms project is to help reduce communities/growing cities Food risk associated problems , make food production more transparent, using clean energy to produce fresh food closer to home.
SOME OF TODAY’S PROBLEMS:
Climate change
- 2030= Urban areas will grow 185%
FOOD & WATER SCARCITY
- Massive food imports / Landgrabbings : use of more fossil fuels = more CO2 emissions
Energy consumption
- Uncontrolled water consumption, use of food chemicals, pesticides,antibiotics.....
- Natural disasters ( droughts, floodings, etc)
- Cities land scarce & costs
HOW
We propose a productive FLOATING FARM SYSTEM to bring food closer to growing cities
A replicable and scalable modular design
Implementation can be done on a worldwide scale / different locations
THE PROJECT COMBINE DIFFERENT MARKET AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGIES INTO A
SIMBIOTIC SINGLE PRODUCTIVE PLATFORM:
A- SOLAR ENERGY PLANT (rooftop)
B- HYDROPONICS - CROP PRODUCTION (middle level)
C- AQUACULTURE - FISH AND OTHER SPECIES (lower level)
The type of species to be produced and module size can be adapted to the local geographical requirements/needs
A- SOLAR ENERGY PLANT (rooftop) | View of a 60 x 35 meter module ( 2100 sqm footprint - 22604 sqft)
B- HYDROPONICS - CROP PRODUCTION (middle level) | Different crop types - 80% less water consumption
C- AQUACULTURE - FISH AND OTHER SPECIES (lower level) - Commercial recirculating aquaculture system
THE RESULTING PLATFORM WILL INTEGRATE PROVEN COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS SUCH AS:
- Mooring systems
- Pontoons + Floating structure
- Hydroponics: cultivation and irrigation high yields with reduced costs and less water use
- RAS aquaculture / tanks
- Middle size commercial desalination unit (for salt water areas)