Floating greenhouses

From Fast Company:

Philipp Hutfless, an industrial designer from Germany, is trying to develop Vereos, an idea for coastal cities with limited space for growing food. It's a floating greenhouse that recycles freshwater and gets power from built-in solar panels.

The greenhouse is 42 square feet with shelves for growing vegetables inside. It has a reverse-osmosis plant onboard, which pushes saltwater at high pressure through a membrane to produce freshwater. Then there's a tank and pump, powered by electricity. The frame is aluminum and the covering is made of a hard-wearing plastic. Most importantly, the greenhouse uses hydroponics, which is less water-intensive than conventional growing (50 percent of the water is recycled) and less heavy, because there's no soil involved.

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