Creative Way To Prevent World Hunger In Future

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:58:39 +0000

In article named Would You Like To Drink The Air? we talked about the problem of lack of drinking water even with fact that 70% of Earth is covered by water. Food is even a bigger problem. By the year 2050, the human population will count 9 billion people approximately. That is 50% more people than today. More people equals more food, but there is over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops (world wide) in use today (sources: FAO and NASA). So, by today’s standards, if we use current techniques, there will be not enough food for whole world population (even today we have huge problems in Africa and in some other parts of the world ).

Vertical Farm Project offers a solution:

The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. What is new is the urgent need to scale up this technology to accommodate another 3 billion people. An entirely new approach to indoor farming must be invented, employing cutting edge technologies. The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world’s urban centers. If successfully implemented, they offer the promise of urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming.

Designs

Piramid Farm by Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier

"The Living Skyscraper: Farming the Urban Skyline" by Blake Kurasek

Zabeel Park Vertical Farm

"VF - Type O" by Oliver Foster

Source: Vertical Farm Project

Car For The Entire World

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:55:31 +0000

Weather conditions can significantly affect the way that we drive our cars. Sometimes you need to change tires to adopt to different weather conditions. It would be interesting to go to Italy with your car and then “drive” with that same car to streets of Venice. This will probably be possible in the world of the future. And very common!

Amphibious Hybrid is one of the possible answers. It is a concept vehicle that was created by Janne LeppÃ¤nen, Tuulia Miettinen, Roope Kolu, Tiemen Stelwagen, and Jaap Van Der Voort.

Amphibious Hybrid

It can be used on land, ice and on water. So how is this possible?

“The wheel exists of movable parts which can increase traction or even transform in a paddle wheel to propel the vehicle in the water. The wheel is controlled by terrain sensors which decide when more or less traction is needed. This system provides the vehicle with more safety because it can answer to different kind of terrains. Inside each wheel is an electric engine, which has energy from batteries.”

Amphibious Hybrid - ready for water

Amphibious Hybrid

Source: Amphibious Hybrid

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Creative Way To Prevent World Hunger In Future

Car For The Entire World