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Re: sustainable production 2040



Joost Mogendorff <G.J.E.Mogendorff@ATO.DLO.NL> wrote:

>As part of the STD-programme (Sustainable Technology Development; a Dutch governmental programme) 
>everybody with original, innovating ideas for Sustainable High-Tech Food Production in the year 
>2040 is invited to send in pioneering thoughts.	
>Prizes of 25,000 Dutch Guilders (approx. 15,000 USDollars) will be granted to the two best ideas 
>on how to make High-Tech Food Crops Production possible. The targeted production system should be 
>based on the following (technological) starting points:
> - production units use only solar light as energy source  
> - optimized supply of light to the plants
> - optimized conversion and storage of energy
> - application of specific sensors and actuators
> - total-crop principle: utilization of all wastes and by-products
> - production is local and demand-oriented
> - integration of the above mentioned technologies

Optimized conversion and storage of energy, and high-tech both sound
unsustainable to me!  Perhaps low-tech and sub-optimal conversions
would be a more appropriate avenue for investigation?
-j


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