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, one of the greatest challenges for vertical farming is high energy usage to run lighting and climate control. Not only does the energy cost inhibit profitability but using fossil-fuelled energy, of course, has a major impact on our environment.
Enesys has developed extensive models to demonstrate the economic feasibility of vertical farms by crop, location, and energy use. This enables vertical farming entrepreneurs to assess the viability of their potential project before anything is built. Accompanying this unique modeling system, Enesys has also designed fully automated vertical farms that are world-class and unlike any others can be linked to a waste to energy solution, where the vertical farm, in fact, becomes an energy producer rather than an energy consumer.
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