AgriPOD - Food Production Unit, designed in Norway for world distribution

It is the sustainable way forward to grow food and is "Greener than Greenhouses".

Project Description: Created to address the worlds chronic food and water shortage while reducing the carbon footprint of existing greenhouses. It is suitable for both Urban and Rural use in areas previously considered unusable for growing due to lack of water and good soil. It is at the cutting edge in food production installations, saving water, increasing yields and its carbon footprint is dramatically small in comparison to traditional existing greenhouses, which in time, it will replace.

Extended notes AgriPOD is a radical new design (patent pending), created jointly by Bruce Michael Edgar (Phoenix Planning Design AS), and Richard Nelson (Life Synthesis AS). This revolutionary solar, bubble greenhouse has evolved over period of 25 years, based on concepts and SolaRoof technology developed by Richard Nelson, a Canadian inventor. An earlier SolaRoof proto-type greenhouse has just celebrated 10 years use in Ottawa, Canada.

Essentially the benefits are that the unique AgriPOD creates a totally controlled environment, that reduces the amount of water required because it capture water that would normally just evaporate into the atmosphere. In addition to this allows the growing season to be extended, thus increasing food production.

The AgriPOD can be used on roof tops, car parks but also arid ground or rock. By using hydroponic and other revolutionary growing technics, such as vertical crops food, this system can produce food in places previously thought as barren. It allows food to be produced year round, extending the growing season to the whole year. This means having two three or four crops a year depending on the situation and location. It also drastically reduces its carbon footprint in relation to other standard greenhouse food production methods.