Robots Run This Farm (and Save 95% of the Water)
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2020
- Would you drink purified garbage juice or eat food grown in a warehouse? In episode three of Hacking the Apocalypse, Claire Reilly explores the tech saving the planet's water.
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So at 5:45, when I take the garbage juice out of the fridge, you would not BELIEVE how much it stank! Also, can confirm, the wasabi arugula was seriously spicy. It did make me wonder how much the tech could be expanded to larger crops -- is this the future of fruit or vineyards?
I knew this would happen the way the population is expanding. Wondering how fast this tech will be commercialized and will it be enough. Will be people accept it? I could see you cringing at the idea.
What’s the cost comparison of the vertical farming vs regular farming? Also, what are the limitations, like what types of crop vertical farming can’t do.
@@sisenor4091 normal farming hm……could it be purify the soil even liquid water .
@@sisenor4091 same goes to trees n plants.
@@tankahchoon2723 Sorry, I don’t understand your answer. By the way, I believe in vertical farming but like everything else, I have questions.
This series is amazing. You guys are talking about issues and technologies that are crucial to our future. Great job!
They are way too much negative, we should focus on the solution, not the problem.
@@johntheux9238 I’m guilty lately, but putting a cork in it. I agree, my whole life……more positivity or up lifting. Thank you for keeping everything going
2 minutes of showing the automated farm
11 minutes of fear mongering
Seriously. I was hoping for more technical information about the agricultural automation, not emotional manipulation
I LOVE how they bring in various experts to talk about the issues and also show us diverse ways around said issues without denying science or innovation. Also our host is really relate-able so the show is even more enjoyable. It’s also terrifying to watch but this is just the reality we have brought upon ourselves. I really hope we can keep progressing
Her bloopers were my favorite part
Grow rice, wheat, corn and soy first before making bold claims otherwise these indoor farms are just glorified salad gardens.
Thats funny but somehow true. All they do is salads and microveggies. But im sure there are some that produce onions and potatoes. Potatoes are a big win
You can achieve a bigger margin with fresh leafygreens, this is the reason why we don't see potato and wheat vertical farms yet, I guess.
The Netherlands section of this company is growing tomatoes and rice
So, where does the water go? It doesn't leave the planet, does it? So it must be somewhere?!
Probably in the atmosphere. Hence the increasingly powerful tornadoes.
it’s tied up in other products and also in the lad but it talks some years to settle in underground beds to be re-extracted
Dispersed into the sea and mixed with salt water (Glaciers and Ice from south + north pole). Transferred to low-lying areas that causes extreme flooding.
Worst of all, Contaminated Lakes or Rivers.
Ocean level is rising.
You can look at the clean water just like with energy on our planet. We are taking high quality energy (oil, gas) and after we use it, the resulted bi-products are not only useless but harmful. Same thing with the water. Industrial, sewage or biohazard water is the end-result of us using water and that water is toxic for us and the environment.
Really interesting and cool thanks Claire and CNET. I like the serious exploration of the future risks and the tech that's being developed to mitigate them
Loving the series!
Can we also talk about how much better quality vegetables those look like? I’ve never seen such beautiful lettuce in my life
Do the liquid solvents become waste or are they renewable?...because it looks like you need a large amount of the solvent to get just a tiny bit of clean water.
I love this but is there a study on any negatives of producing food this way
That laugh at *11:00* though 😆 , made me laugh 🤣🤣
yes, Yes, YES, YASSSS! It's about time CNET got serious about covering this. Futuristic food production, refrigeration, HVAC, and family planning have the power to save life on earth, literally.
They are way too negative, please focus on the solution, not the problem...
@@johntheux9238 That's what they're doing, that was the whole point of the video. They showed multiple possible solutions.
Great video
You guys are really amazing watching your videos has inspired us a lot and thus we have started our won club where we enlighten as much people as possible about all these. please do not stop this series we absolutely love it
The ending was fab 👌
Eventually when someone eat it ...
Does this lettuce taste a little dry to you.
Looks like the hydroponic farm is a tradeoff between water and electricity (lights). There is also the cost of all the hardware (trays, ramps, frames) and rent on the building.
Temperature solvent extract was a new method for me - very interesting.
the funny thing about these hydro farms is they grow crap "nobody" for the most part eat. We eat sandwiches, cereal, burgers, meat and potatoes, not freaking leaves. Sure, occasionally a salad maybe ten times a year, but these hydroponics farms grossly lack variety of more realistic crops like fruit, berries, bananas, melons, kiwis, stuff people actually want to snack on, sweet things.
Let's have fewer than 5, 4, 3 kids.. it could help
Or YOU could make space
Or, buy less clothes and things in general...and travel less often by car... Look up how much water it takes to make one pair of jeans.
How safe are those chemical used for treating polluted water.
Does Bowery also use solar, and wind to power the farm?
Just save the damn bees
This is nothing new in fact many companies have been running "farms" like this for 20 years. They have failed to catch on or disrupt the industry, not because of a lack of tech or investment or even smart people working on it. The real reasons they have not and never will disrupt traditional farming is that if the math the economics don't make sense and even with the increases in output of these systems the would end up taking up ten times more room in a city then the people do just to grow enough food for those people. The cost of running the lights alone makes it uncompetitive for most crops not to mention the heat buildup of running a skyscraper full of grow lights would be completely unmanageable.
The economics will never make sense at scale or for most traditional high volume staple crops because as you go vertical the capital costs grow exponentially and real-estate costs in city centers are prohibitively expensive. This is why you never see staple crops of feed grown in these "farms" and you only ever see hipster greens because they can mark those up enough to cover their costs and that market will pay it but that market is small and that is not even a small percentage of the overall market. The largest markets are for commodity crops such as wheat, rice, corn, and soy beans which it is completely unfeasible to grow vertically or in city centers.
There is another solution, we retrofit pre-existing farms with much of the same tech and build greenhouses over their land. This allows for that land to produce the whole year just like the project shown here and save the same amount of water but without the huge cost of being in the city center, having to run elevators or lifts, paying for electricity, etc. etc. You would obviously still want to focus on the farms which are closest to the cities first to minimize the shipping and the waste that comes with it. It may seem at first that this would more expensive but this is not correct at any type of scale this is the far more economical option since the cost scales linearly per unit of growing space but your costs scale exponentially for each additional unit of growing space when you grow vertically or in cities.
They havent licked Ice-cream for long time😂😂😂
Developing this technology is certainly helpful in the future for exoterra colonization. They are not true solutions for the problems in our lifetimes, but will allow us to tread water and stay alive until we actually get ourselves out of a drowning situation. The figure of speak is intentionally ironic. I wonder how wasabi arugula would taste when used in sushi. Eat more, Claire! Great work. Cheers!
Out west and Southern California they don't capture the runoff water or rain to recycle it for use as it's done else where east.
Maybe SoCal should start. Have both processing plants that convert pollution into water and desalination plants both use solar panels on their roofs. Problem solved.
Neat video but I was curious why you did not talk about clean and dirty water, not sure the right names here. But the idea is you get freshwater use it for cooking and washing then clean it and use it for toilets. So clean drinkable water would last longer.
The real question is how much more does it cost to produce thoes plants
Come to Kerala, India. We have 44 Rivers and 6 months continuous rain. But I have to admit that we are wasting 99% of those water.
We are not running out of water! Earth is over 70% water. All we need to do is to desalinate it. Something we have been doing for years!
the earth has PLENTY OF WATER. Just need better ways to collect it, clean it, and send it to the places needed.
Exactly.
Thank god I don't live in any states that have major droughts
Cool they actually recreated Graygarden from Fallout
y'all going to do a video on earthships in Taos New Mexico?
I'm a little late on watching this but we've done this to our selves
They made an automatic wheat farm without any villagers!
That's easy
All good until he pops the lid on a dispoable plastic container lol hmm seems a little polished for the screen
There is no water shortage. Fresh water is constantly resupplied trough rainfall. And if you live in a area with little rainfall the ocean is a infinite source of water, you just need energy to desalinate and pump it.
I've read that cotton is one of the biggest water wasters..? That growing hemp uses much less water, can make more goods per harvest and it even grows a bit faster.. why are we still growing cotton?
Hey, I saw that Karl Fischer titration at 6:16 don't think you managed to sneak it by me!
...I freaking hate that test, does anybody have any advice to make replicates more replicable at low water levels?
Okay! So how do you Plant a Mahogany in this high tech farm?
The issue is not going big but growing stuff that need more sunlight. Pretty sure those industrial LED's produce less than 1/100th the illuminance of direct sunlight.
The good thing is, lettuce could probably grow on Titan without any lighting besides the sun ^^
@@johntheux9238 well ive grown weed indoors years ago in a 2x2m box who need a lot of sunlight too. It just needs bigger setup. Its all about the Watt numbers
why are they doing that? i remember as a child the two pressure cookers on the boat. you heat the water and it goes threw coils as steam and into the other cooker. it lleaves the alge and salt and bad stuff behind. so while out on the boat we make our own fresh water. you can even use a little salt water to boil vegetables. so using a solar panel and boiling water and steam we can make drinking water which they have been doing for years.
the ocean is getting plenty of water and the sun gives us solar to use to make fresh water.
6:28 🤨😂
this is awesome and I love the ingenuity, but some of the issues in CA are related to their policies. I heard in this video many times that 'climate change' was the cause of many of the problems. It was not mentioned in the video that CA actually has enough rainfall every year to satisfy its water needs and the needs of some of the surrounding states but due to the policies pushed in the state and the lack of run-off reclamation the state is categorized as being in a 'drought'.
During an apocolypse the garnish is your pizza.
Give us less deepstate fear narrative and more about the tech. Free energy >> desalination >> no more water shortage. Have you seen the oceans?
I like her... funny!
Isn't easier to desalinate ocean water than the garage juice, i mean the oceans r huge no???
I don't understand. May someone enlighten me. Global warming/Climate change thaw tons of ice and cause flooding. Would it not be too much water that causes flooding? And why water then is scarce?
Things I "learned" from this video:
- There's going to be a drought apocalypse
- There's going to be a flooding apocalypse
- There's going to be a winter apocalypse
- This is the _first time ever_ anyone ever cleaned/purified water
- California and South Africa, two areas that border oceans, are running out of water
- In the future, warehouses will only produce salad
- Global warming, climate change and imminent doom are upon us (date to be determined)
- A vertical farm warehouse is so clean, visitors have to wear protective suits, while workers can dress casual
- If something is new & shiny, we don't ask about cons or limitations
I went from shitpost status to this
So 1 percent water use growth just like world population. Ok I can see that. Now the only thing I would like to about the indoor farm is how much power does it need in a year
What about wheat?
People need to trace the nutrients...
Where and how those chemicals are made.
Ok, but aren't the ice caps are melting and the sea level rising.....?
if people had to go out to get their water rather than paying some money and it comes automatically we probably would have more of it.
Running out of water!!….😂😂
Lol
I’m ignorant, apologies. Why is it that we can’t convert salt water to fresh water?
It’s too expensive
Did I miss something, where are the robots?
How much more before people start to realize
Lots of Pepsi fans out there are going to be offended by that 2 liter
What we wish for & repeat it all the time is wat will be given us. No no to any apocalypse. It should go far far away from earth. Lets pray water bodies does not dry. Let keep the environs free from waste, plastics & its entourages . Teaching the public, schools churches, hospitals how littering waste everywhere should be avoided can go a long way. Especially schools & market places. No to apocalypse!
...... Other people says we are getting more water because the ice in the Antarctica is melting, even some small countries are in danger of being flooded and yet this video is saying about we are running out of water and global drought. I can't even. 🤦
Canada's new oil will be fresh clean water. There's no water shortage here... EVER.
So basically they are farming "Chinampas" but with artificial light. the aztecs really knew how to farm.
Lol guess someone never heardof the natural water cycle. We need to start panicking when the sea levels starts dropping.
Hice una Tiny House ecologica con microgreens, invernadero adosado bioclimatico y un huerto circular biodinamico...
What about chemicals? What about bees?
Love it shame the world doesn't share our views
Maybe because most people have a positive mindset?
Basic farming you mean!!!
Vertical farming con luz solar...
Only CNET can make a video apocalyptic. What a joke of a video
POV you step into a Minecraft farm
Why Don't we get all the water back from the air?
i like some of your this series, but this episode is based on a lie, and if "klimate change ' is happening, we cant do annything about it annyway, your hunt for solutions for more drink water i find amazing tho (L)
Why aren't countries that have an ocean front building desalination plants to pump water inland? This would provide more water & help the rising oceans from climate change that is melting the glaciers.
Curious can we turn salt water into drinking water
Yes - there are places doing that now.
Yes it's called water desalination
It takes thousands of gallons of water to grow your McDonald’s meat burger, while that same amount of water is used for an entire year’s worth of vegan food.
Turns out humans need water to survive?
Well i'll be damn thanks for letting me know.
Water doesn't disappear it just moves. We might have to ruin someone's beachfront view with a desalination plant but that will be the worst of it. The real issue is NIMBYism. People know the problem and solution but no one wants to fix it. We have thousands of miles of coastline we can use a few miles to build a few plants problem solved no more fighting for water. Figure out how many miles we need put that in a lottery and the property that is drawn the owners get bought out at FMV install the plant and be done with it. If there was ever a reason for eminent domain potable water for everyone would be it. Installing water storage towers would be a big help as well. Watching rain water just go down the drain is maddening as someone that lives in CA. We got money for trains that go nowhere but no money for water towers. Obviously this is not a problem or else they would have solved it instead of just producing documentaries.
Everyone in the comments suggests just building destination plants but that is not possible for the scale we need. It would take more like 10s of thousands of desalination plants at a minimum to do what you suggest. And desalination plants are extremely expensive and extremely inefficient. If it was as simple as just building a few desalination plants then that would be what was being done, but it is not a workable solution.
Inazarab have you considered there may be an innovation in the future that makes it inexpensive at scale?
@@JBB685 Yes, of course. That's the whole point lets innovate and find better solutions. I am saying with technology as it is right now desalination is not feasible but with innovation it may be in the future.
Fearmongering is great business. I would love to see a video on the billions made because of it.
It makes no sense to me why California, located on the coast, would have water supply issues. Seems like they should be following what Israel has done with their desalination plants.
Well, less water means less population, and less population means less to worry about since the population determines the usage of water... soo........
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I would not worry too much about California and the other Western states. They still have green grass in their desert.
"dust ball as far as the eye can see," is quitter talk
Graygarden in real life
Making the simple complicated because of sin.
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 1 Timothy 6:10
80% of our planet is water? So how could we ever run out? Why haven’t they figured a way to use ocean water? They can desalinate it
Desalinating water is extremely expensive and extremely inefficient and to do it at the scale we need is next to impossible.
@Amusis Treating sewage and desalinating seawater are very different things. America is the wealthiest country in the world, so why was California in a drought for 5 years? Do some research and use your brain.
@Amusis The fact that you think treating sewage and desalination are the same tells me a lot about your level of education. Educate yourself on material science and chemistry then get back to me.
@Amusis Hey both of you need to be solution funders instead of name calling. Grow up you 2.
@@Inazarab Grow up u 2. Solve this problem instead of calling each other names.
Easy way for anyone to make a buck is to get a "Scientist, and or Expert" to scare the he'll out of the public with the worst case scenario then present a "possible" solution and collect your fee
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Desonilasation plants
Ask bear gryll how he surviveda desert with no water, he has the answer to all this.
Help me with my project, read my ‘about’ page.
Cyberpunk represent
Not the year thank you
Been making vertical farms in minecraft for years, this is amateur 😉
Lol