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The Ultimate Recycle Bin Nourishes As Well
All those people who scorn at green ideas, here’s the Mother of Them ALL, and its by biggie Philips, so lets see what you’re gonna do about it! Biosphere Home Farming is a structure that houses fishes, root veggies, grasses, plants and algae all under one roof. It takes all your kitchen-trash as fodder for the farm and manages to generate food, water and cooking gas for the family. In short you consume your trash in a more refined way! Ok, enough of green bashing hit the jump to see what exactly Philips has to say about this concept.
“Biosphere home farming concept generates food and cooking gas, while filtering water. The concept supplements a families nutritional needs by generating several hundred calories a day in the form of fish, root vegetables, grasses, plants and algae. Unlike conventional hydroponic nurseries this system incorporates a methane digester than produces heat and gas to power lights, similarly algae produces hydrogen and the root plants produces oxygen, which is fed back to fish. CO2 is pumped into the plants. It is a closed loop interdependent system. The system uses waste water and non-consumable household matter and delivers food in return.”
Designer: Philips
19 Comments »
Wybie says
excellent, absolutely brilliant
Carl says
what an unworkable crock.a complete dreamer..
Noah says
Not really, think “space station”, not quite so unworkable is it? Besides, they sell small-scale things like this in the Mesopotamian museum, sure in that case it’s a glass globe with algae and krill, but it’s the same idea.
Carl says
go and live on a spacestation then
agatzebluz says
Excellent !! Just have to own a very big house and kitchen …
foodtown says
hope one day it might come into our life
zippyflounder says
well my guess is that it would survive (produce) for 60-120 days until the owners got tired of it and let the fish/plants die from neglect.
Lexi says
That’s a lame way to put it. Might as well not get pets then. Since it’s going to die anyway from neglect.
AlienzExist says
We need more ideas like this.
christiaan says
Cool! This is the same topic we are working on for an Urban Farming project in Philadelphia at the University of the Arts.
Roger says
Having some experience with a “planted tank” that had Supplemental Co2 Injection, special lighting and an eye on keeping it all in balance, I can only imagine how hard it would be to keep the above setup in equilibrium.
I’d love to see the designer give that a try and then draw up a new tank design.
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