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    Creating a vertical farm (any feedback, advice, ideas, criticism is very welcome)

    A small update, we have decided to go with air atomization and pressure fed water. Some things we would like to hear your thoughts on: Internal vs external mixing nozzles: internal mixing nozzles seem to make best use the water and air pressure, internal mixing nozzles have (in theory) a...
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    Creating a vertical farm (any feedback, advice, ideas, criticism is very welcome)

    @rkymtnman you are correct there are already working farms with a high level of automation using NFT and DW, and yes these methods reduce the initial investment. Now I think that aeroponics especially air atomized aeroponics can be as reliable or even surpass any other system (using drain to...
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    Creating a vertical farm (any feedback, advice, ideas, criticism is very welcome)

    @rkymtnman thank you for the two references, I have not seen these two but there are many others (I can not post links since I am new here, but put this into google): "innovatus inc" "aerofarms" "boweryfarming" The list goes on and on, we are under no illusion that we are the first. But we are...
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    Creating a vertical farm (any feedback, advice, ideas, criticism is very welcome)

    Hi everyone, we are designing a automated indoor vertical farm for leafy greens specifically targeted for areas where ether the environment is harsh or the water is scarce (parts of Africa, India, country inside the Polar circle...). Our idea is a modular system where each tray/rack bay is in...
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