Have followed this project from its earliest days prior to sundrop farms.wonderful example of sustainable technology.congratulations to everyone involved for the tenacity .we look forward to many more projects in even more extreme environments.
Sustainable food production on unproductive land without using fossil fuel and not harmful to the environment and also with minimal chemical poisons. A big step forward in a world with a a changing climate. This environment in Port Augusta is already climate challenged. Australia has a huge potential for further safe agriculture. Today it's a variety of tomatoes, in the future other fruits and vegetables.
It gives me WOW feeling at the 1st stage and indeed till ends. I am also a CSP engineer and always wanted to do sustainable agriculture development in food hungry country like India.So Sundrop farm is like dream come true for me.I would like to invite Sundrop Farm team to come to India and share their knowledge in developing a pilot project here in Indian desert.
You had me until you didn't deal with the waste brine... dumping that back in the ocean is not good. You need to be able to capture the salts. Talk to the team at the sahara forest project for tips.
Salt has commercial value in of itself, but I can understand why they wouldn't, the difficulty of the logistics of it on this scale wouldn't be worth it
The sun does the same sea water is concentrated then diluted by clouds then rain.the waste in this case only needs to be spread into the ocean.it is 8ndeed a drop in the ocean
It is related to the pollination of the flowers. Hitting the crop support wires makes the entire plant shaken and this helps the flowers release their pollen. Normally it is used the bumble bees, but I think due to the high temperatures, this ones are not so reliable.
COUNT THE CORN PLANTS IN A CORN FIELD AND MATCH IT IN GREEN/GLASS HOUSES AND WE ARE ON!! IF A FIELD HAS 1000 PLANTS THE HOUSE NEEDS 1000 OR MORE!! SAMPLE JUST SAYING OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T RETIRED NAVY
Anybody ate those tomatoes? Are they tasty? I live in Siberia. We grow everything and got used to very tasty food... Would be interesting to try those tomatoes. Their taste, their smell....
Unfortunately, the variety grown is that which travels well, stores well and appears regular and therefore appeals to the public conception of what a Tomato should look like. This is Driven by the Market supplier in this case "Coles". So there is a compromise to Flavour in that these are somewhat bland and thickskinned. Grow your own and experience the difference!!!
So what happens to the toxic waste from the desalination process? And what happens to the used and discarded grow wool slabs that are chock full of toxic salts from the hydroponic solution? What happens to the runoff/exhausted solution from the watering process that's effectively salts tainted water? All this for some tomatoes? But yea the solar collector system is kinda cool, nice work coles. Make us pay for a plastic carry bags under the guise of better for the environment even though we are still using plastic bags anyway at the very same time that you decide to ramp up plastic use by wrapping almost everything in the store in a plastic tray with plastic wrapping. Open your eyes people these people are nothing but hypocrites and profiteers pumping the give you less charge you more for the investors.
Have followed this project from its earliest days prior to sundrop farms.wonderful example of sustainable technology.congratulations to everyone involved for the tenacity .we look forward to many more projects in even more extreme environments.
Sustainable food production on unproductive land without using fossil fuel and not harmful to the environment and also with minimal chemical poisons. A big step forward in a world with a a changing climate. This environment in Port Augusta is already climate challenged. Australia has a huge potential for further safe agriculture. Today it's a variety of tomatoes, in the future other fruits and vegetables.
Great job ❤
Wonderful example of sustainable technology
Congratulations to everyone involved in this project
its a great project but the question is, is it viable long term
Congratulations to everyone!
It gives me WOW feeling at the 1st stage and indeed till ends. I am also a CSP engineer and always wanted to do sustainable agriculture development in food hungry country like India.So Sundrop farm is like dream come true for me.I would like to invite Sundrop Farm team to come to India and share their knowledge in developing a pilot project here in Indian desert.
Excellent
Should get some bees to pollinate the flowers.
Awesome... well done
Make one in Mexico! Near California good market plenty if sun, salt water and affordable labor.
You had me until you didn't deal with the waste brine... dumping that back in the ocean is not good. You need to be able to capture the salts. Talk to the team at the sahara forest project for tips.
What's the issue? It's not a huge amount of brine given 1 million litres per day but they could sell it in the future as sea salt.
Salt has commercial value in of itself, but I can understand why they wouldn't, the difficulty of the logistics of it on this scale wouldn't be worth it
The sun does the same sea water is concentrated then diluted by clouds then rain.the waste in this case only needs to be spread into the ocean.it is 8ndeed a drop in the ocean
Whay's new at the farm??? Please, let us know!
10:23 what is the fellow doing, waking the plants?
I think this helps pollination.
It is related to the pollination of the flowers. Hitting the crop support wires makes the entire plant shaken and this helps the flowers release their pollen. Normally it is used the bumble bees, but I think due to the high temperatures, this ones are not so reliable.
I thought he was just counting plants
awesome :O
after all the underpayments in the industry i wonder if those asian workers in there are being paid less that minimum wage or not
Forgot one thing you put salt on tomato's to eat lol
Should be Aquaponic
Riiiight cause you know more about this stuff then they do...
It's a really effective way of desalinating sea water it's a good idea
Sprinkle sea water over the greenhouse. It will cool greenhouse further
Supplement tomato with potato... Potato grows under soil. Tomato grows over soil... Potato grows in saline water...
COUNT THE CORN PLANTS IN A CORN FIELD AND MATCH IT IN GREEN/GLASS HOUSES AND WE ARE ON!! IF A FIELD HAS 1000 PLANTS THE HOUSE NEEDS 1000 OR MORE!! SAMPLE JUST SAYING OLD ONE LEGGED JOSEPH T RETIRED NAVY
Anybody ate those tomatoes? Are they tasty? I live in Siberia. We grow everything and got used to very tasty food... Would be interesting to try those tomatoes. Their taste, their smell....
They taste great
Unfortunately, the variety grown is that which travels well, stores well and appears regular and therefore appeals to the public conception of what a Tomato should look like. This is Driven by the Market supplier in this case "Coles". So there is a compromise to Flavour in that these are somewhat bland and thickskinned. Grow your own and experience the difference!!!
Do birds get cooked that fly across the sun beam
How many birds are there in the desert?
@@koenkeep you will be surprised how many migrate
www.in-the-desert.com/birds.html
Desert is not dead lot of life that you don’t see
What's the medium in the heat storage tanks?
will be a 'salt' that will be liquid at high heat, probably a lithium bromide salt which is most commonly used
@@stephengous5811 I heard this project went belly up.
@@Chobaca I don't think it did?
@@pale_oblivion9496 oh yeah! Cool! Have you got any news on it?
@@Chobaca No lol, I'm not sure. I just didn't find any news that is failed
Like smwd
So what happens to the toxic waste from the desalination process?
And what happens to the used and discarded grow wool slabs that are chock full of toxic salts from the hydroponic solution?
What happens to the runoff/exhausted solution from the watering process that's effectively salts tainted water?
All this for some tomatoes?
But yea the solar collector system is kinda cool, nice work coles.
Make us pay for a plastic carry bags under the guise of better for the environment even though we are still using plastic bags anyway at the very same time that you decide to ramp up plastic use by wrapping almost everything in the store in a plastic tray with plastic wrapping.
Open your eyes people these people are nothing but hypocrites and profiteers pumping the give you less charge you more for the investors.
amazing video; very funny/ keep up the god wrork i have liked a ndd subscirbde i rrally hope i win. i laso urtned on notifcifications.
How much is funded by the Australian tax payer, and how much per tomato dose it represent?
If you spent any time listening to it, you could have heard it was funded by the financial market
Smwd
BlakeTheSnake_28 lol exposed
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Update for February 2019: they are not making a profit and are losing lots of money.
Let me shit on you for real they had 10 year contract how is it possible
Troll
Or maybe you have a link to a source with a more trustful brand then your YT handle...
Lol
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