#SolarFarm - Crop failures and other food crises could become a thing of the past thanks to a revolutionary proposal to develop an offshore mobile 'solar farm'.
According to the Huffington Post, the concept relies on so-called 'vertical farming technology' whereby plants can be grown in nutrient-rich water rather than soil.
Such plant beds could be stacked on floating pontoons powered by solar panels as a solution to feeding coastal cities in a sustainable manner.
The concept also includes a fish farm element even less ambitious than the 500-hectare Galway Bay proposal to produce but which could produce more than 1,700 tons of fish – along with 8,000 tons of vegetables – each year in a space of just seven hectares.
The Huffington Post has much more on the story HERE.