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Idea 2 - lesson 2/3

Looking at the hydroponic farms I figured they are quite efficient, and adding artificial light might help. But then I thought why don’t you grown on both sides? i.e. why cant you grow the plant upside down? This way you can fit more around 1 light source.

http://sustaindane.org/blog/post/part-1-hydro-what b pod system is an idea, but this is industrial and huge so can I make it smaller? Growing upside down is ok – but how do you start off the seeds?

This idea again is only really an improvement on top of existing solutions.

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Idea 1 - lesson 2

After looking at some existing designs like the veg trug and ergrownomics these are quite traditional products, they still take up quite a bit of room – could they be made to take up less room and multi tiered?

This idea is pretty boring, and there are already greenhouse style multi tear solutions. It did however  get me thinking of a way to compost the house waste food to use in the planter – this is an avenue worth pursing so I need to find out more about home composting and avoiding the smell. So I looked into it but I dont think many people who live in a flat would want to keep their food waste hanging about, also the are likely to produce more waste than they can compost.

Thinking about the composting situation some more I found http://www.re-nuble.com/ they use waste food and turn it into liquid food, process is very secret so will see if I can work out some of it and see if it is feasible to turn into a product.

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a way to reduce domestic food waste

My starting point

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T317 - Project

I decided to make a tumblr to log my project work and research, also any cool things I find which might be useful!