Inspiration
Our project was inspired by our love of good food, concern for the environment and wish for all people to have access to abundant, high quality, nutritious food.
What it does
Our integrated platform produces purified water to grow an algae-based soil amendment in photobioreactors. This soil amendment product is harvested and used for growing fruits, vegetables, grains and all crops. The yield of the crops is at least 30% higher with no chemical or synthetic fertilizer inputs. Our platform integrates with aquaponics to grow fruits and vegetables along with fish.
The Center of the Hub acts as a food distribution point and offers job training and opportunities for the community to learn about food, cooking, gardening and other skills.
How I built it
We first needed to start with the cleanest, purest water possible and found a nanobubble water purification system. Once we had purified water, we designed a growth system that can be installed in any type building or greenhouse. If it is in a warehouse or building, we use LED light for photosynthesis. We have integrated other systems to further increase the algae production along with an organic nutrient. Our small algae plant produces enough product for 4,000 hectares. The algae farm has no limitations in scaling up.
The aquaponics systems benefits from our purified water and algae. The aquaponic system can be scaled from a small teaching system to a large-scale commercial system capable of producing thousands of pounds of fish and produce annually.
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