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Collaborating with Priva to Help Create Sustainable Urban Deltas.

November 2019 We have just returned from a wonderful trip to The Netherlands. The Netherlands is probably one of our favorite countries. They are so forward-thinking and progressive in so many ways and most especially in Agriculture and Protected Cropping. One of the global leaders in this industry is a company called Priva. Priva is the leading climate control company in the world. The team at Priva is totally committed to helping the world do things differently and to create a vision for Sustainable Urban Deltas. We were invited to Priva to discuss how our technology could integrate with theirs to bring Waste to Energy to Growing to life, especially within Sustainable Urban Deltas. We sat with Priva for three days and had some wonderful discussions that ended with an agreement to work together where we can to bring clean energy solutions to growers and sustainable precinct developers. CEO of Priva MEiny Prins is a wonderful person and a true passionate visionary for how ...

Verti Farm Nethlands 2019

VertiFarm 2019 OCTOBER 2019  This is where Enesys founder John Norwood is right now. The first International workshop on vertical farming, taking place at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.  Industry leaders and academics are gathering to discuss all things vertical farming, from lighting, climate control, and automation to crop responses.  Vertical farms offer so many solutions to help our future food crisis. They can be built within cities, in unused resources such as underutilised buildings or car parks. Being close to the city, vertical farms drastically reduce our food miles. The food produced is safe, has consistent quality and is unaffected by outside climate and extreme weather conditions. One of the greatest benefits is that hundreds of liters of water are conserved compared with conventional farming methods and the necessity to use pesticides and herbicides is dramatically reduced. However, o ne of the greatest challenges for verti...