Paradigm Shift: Clean Energy Powered Indoor Farms
A solution that can be scaled globally
1) Technology Developers
a) NET Power – Developer of the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle for 100% carbon capture for power plants fueled by natural gas. NET Power is owned by Exelon Corporation, McDermott International Ltd, Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) Low Carbon Ventures, and 8 Rivers Capital.
b) Hydrogen Production from Oil and Gas Fields Without CO2 Emissions by Proton Technologies.
c) Vertical farms and greenhouses: Zwart Systems, Beamsville, ON, Canada
d) Vertical farms: iFarm, Helsinki, Finland
e) NuLeaf Farms Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada
2) Notable articles about vertical farming and food needs by 2050:
a) AeroFarms to Go Public in $1.2 Billion Spring Valley SPAC Deal by Gillian Tan, Mar 26, 2021
b) How Can The World Benefit From Indoor Vertical Farming, April 11, 2021 by Bhok Thompson.
c) How Much Electricity Does a Vertical Farm Use? by iFarm, Helsinki, Finland.
d) The economics of local vertical & greenhouse farming are getting competitive by Peter Tasgal, April 3, 2019
d) The economics of local vertical & greenhouse farming are getting competitive by Peter Tasgal, April 3, 2019
e) How to Sustainably Feed 10 Billion People by 2050, in 21 Charts by World Resources Institute, Dec. 5, 2018
f) Wiki Article: Vertical farming.
3) Notable Articles and Websites Relating to Carbon Capture and Storage
a) Overview wiki article: Carbon Capture and Storage
c) Wolf Mid-stream – Wolf’s Carbon Business Unit
e) Article: Carbon Capture From Flue Gas and the Atmosphere: A Perspective, Dec 15, 2020
f) DOE Article: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage: Climate Change, Economic, Competitiveness, and Energy Security
h) Article: Energy transition: Carbon capture is clean energy, too by Brad Page, CEO, Global CCS Institute, Feb. 14, 2019
i) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) artcle: Post-combustion Capture
4) Videos:
d) 5 Vertical Farms Run by AI and Robots | Future of Farming by TopTechTopic. Segments of this video:
00:00 ● Intro – The Future of Farming source: vertical-film.com
06:58 ● 3. Iron Ox – ‘Iron Ox’ Created The First Farm in America Run Entirely by Robots in San Carlos, California.
08:06 ● 4. Intelligent Growth Solutions – Scotlands First Vertical Farm | Automated Vertical Farming
09:04 ● 5. Urban Crop Solutions – Urban Crops creates automated controlled-environment vertical farming systems
f) Vertical Farming by Just Have a Think, January 3, 2021
g) This Natural Gas Plant Has Achieved Zero Emissions, Jul 3, 2018
h) How carbon capture plant using Mono-ethenol Amine works (for capturing CO2 from industrial plants)
j) CO2 Separation – How It Works, Mar 13, 2018 (using Cameron’s CYNARA Membrane separation technology)
5) Vertical farm system or component suppliers:
a) iFarm, Hämeentie 135a, 00560 Helsinki, Finland.
b) TAVA Systems, Beamsville, ON.
c) Signify (Formally Phillips LED Lighting), GrowWise Center on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Related article: LINK.
d) AgricUltra Advancements Inc., Stoney Creek, ON.
6) Existing food producers using vertical farms:
a) Good Leaf Farms, Ontario, Canada.
b) AeroFarms, Newark, NJ, USA.
c) Local Leaf Farms, Ontario, Canada.
d) Nordic Harvest, Lithuania.
e) Plenty, San Francisco, CA, USA.
7) Vertical Farm Associations
8) Short 2-min. video about current warming trend and links to related information: Current Climate Warming Trend, Expected Impacts & What Can Be Done?