Staying on the topic of farms
Global Indoor Farming Market Size Worth USD 45.23 Billion in 2032
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-i … 00939.html
I had fallen behind news of discovery of lava tubes inside the Moon ... I asked Google for help, and it came up with numerous links ...
Sixteen such collapsed pits over lunar lava tubes are known; the first was discovered by the Japanese SELENE mission in 2009. Most are in the lunar maria, the dark regions you can see by eye that are lava-flooded plains, and all are in areas known to have once been volcanic.
Jul 29, 2022
Bad Astronomy | Lunar lava tubes may be great places for a base
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Lava Tubes on the Moon Maintain Comfortable Room Temperatures ...www.universetoday.com › lava-tubes-on-the-moon-maintain-comfortable-r...
Jul 28, 2022 · For years before their existence was confirmed, scientists thought there were hints that the Moon had lava tubes based on observations of long, ...
Lunar lava tube - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lunar_lava_tube
Lunar lava tubes are lava tubes on the Moon formed during the eruption of basaltic lava flows. When the surface of a lava flow cools, it hardens and the ...
Observational evidence · Proposed exploration · Sites for human habitatsSkylight of Underground Lava Tube on the Moon / The Forefront of ...
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Accordingly, it is no surprise that lava tubes are also found on the Moon. Naturally, for lava tubes to be formed, lava would run through the tubes. If so, lava ...
Could something similar to Ingenuity be sent to the moon in order to ...www.reddit.com › nasa › comments › could_something_similar_to_ingenu...
Mar 25, 2023 · Lava tubes are good in the sense that some of them are deep enough and provide enough radiation mitigation to abide by NASA3001 standards and ...
Intact lava tube found on Moon - NASA Spaceflight Forum
forum.nasaspaceflight.com › ...Oct 19, 2017 · A paper from researchers at JAXA claims to have found at least one intact lava tube in the Marius Hills on the Moon using data from ...
Lunar Fountain? Accessible Ice Could Lurk in Moon's Lava Tubes
www.space.com › News › Science & AstronomyJan 18, 2018 · Going forward, the researchers plan to further investigate Philolaus Crater to confirm whether or not the pits are lava tube skylights, and if ...
Massive lava tubes on the moon and Mars could be used by ... - CNN
www.cnn.com › 2020/08/19 › world › moon-mars-lava-tubes-scn-trndAug 19, 2020 · Lava tubes beneath the surface of Mars and the moon could be large enough to hold entire cities and skyscrapers, according to a new study.
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Online translation
'the lunar lava pipeline is located deep underground, and the thick lunar soil and lunar rock can effectively resist external radiation'
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Interstellar Lab seems to be a company which named its product 'biopod'
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZw0IPtCIeg
Testing vegetable cultivation for the Moon and Mars and 'DLR-Institut' research for the food production of the future in climatically unfavorable areas such as deserts and Arctic.
]]>Will "Liquid CO2" Work you use it to drive electric generators Condense and you Boil, you can also use it hydroponics, your algae for your Aqua-Farm your Aquarium? Liquid CO2 the substance that can be found on Mars, both underground and on the surface. Perhaps set up your own Bio-domes and heat pumps and ecosystem within a Martian colony and part of a gravitational energy storage device.
'Liquid CO2 and Water'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf7Ifg8fnRg
This Vertical Farm Gets the Price of Fresh Vegetables Down to $1 per Pound
https://vegnews.com/2023/8/vertical-far … bles-price
This is NOT a time for the kind of thoughtless emotional rants that so often show up in the NewMars forum.
It seems to me that the Mars enterprise requires a cooperative undertaking to build a viable, sustainable agriculture that does NOT depend upon imports.
It is not clear (to me for sure) why the Sri Lanka experiment failed, but it would seem there was a significant mismatch between the plan and the performance.
The education level of the work force has to have been a factor in the failure.
The communications required would seem to have been missing, but that is a detail I hope to see revealed in a thoughtful analysis.
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]]>Faced with a deepening economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter. From a report in March:
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised in his 2019 election campaign to transition the country's farmers to organic agriculture over a period of 10 years. Last April, Rajapaksa's government made good on that promise, imposing a nationwide ban on the importation and use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and ordering the country's 2 million farmers to go organic.
The result was brutal and swift. Against claims that organic methods can produce comparable yields to conventional farming, domestic rice production fell 20 percent in just the first six months. Sri Lanka, long self-sufficient in rice production, has been forced to import $450 million worth of rice even as domestic prices for this staple of the national diet surged by around 50 percent. The ban also devastated the nation's tea crop, its primary export and source of foreign exchange.
By November 2021, with tea production falling, the government partially lifted its fertilizer ban on key export crops, including tea, rubber, and coconut. Faced with angry protests, soaring inflation, and the collapse of Sri Lanka's currency, the government finally suspended the policy for several key crops -- including tea, rubber, and coconut -- last month, although it continues for some others. The government is also offering $200 million to farmers as direct compensation and an additional $149 million in price subsidies to rice farmers who incurred losses. That hardly made up for the damage and suffering the ban produced. Farmers have widely criticized the payments for being massively insufficient and excluding many farmers, most notably tea producers, who offer one of the main sources of employment in rural Sri Lanka. The drop in tea production alone is estimated to result in economic losses of $425 million.
]]>Retro scifi is back?
Futuristic ‘automat’ dining thrived a century ago. Can covid revive it?
https://wapo.st/3jpzfUJ
Fungi could be used make soil from asteroids, as well as provide the structural backbone for homes built on Mars.
https://astronomy.com/news/2022/04/fung … es-on-mars
Indoor vertical farm expanding to Muncie
https://www.wishtv.com/news/inside-indi … to-muncie/
A New Jersey start-up is using vertical farming to start selling fruit.
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