From: Adam Scriven (scurvy_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/02/02
Message-ID: <20021003033646.27173.qmail@web9908.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:36:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Scriven <scurvy_at_yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Omega Garden - High-density gardening for small spaces/urban farming
--- c.knight_at_juno.com wrote:
> That's my point. It looks like the plants are supposed to grow
> towards the light source, which is fixed at the center of the drum.
> If we introduce another variable, the overhead sun, what will
> that do to the growth of the plants?
That is an excellent question... I'd never thought about that (since
I'd only planned on using it indoors, not in a greenhouse or
indoor/outdoor conditions.
> On a related note -- artificial light is expensive, and of inferior
> quality to natural light. Even assuming a "tube of light" is
> required for this system, I wonder if a light pipe system
> funneling in natural light for the daylight hours, would serve the
> needs of the Omega garden?
>
> Light pipes are relatively easy to design.
That is an awesome idea... and it brings to mind other things, like a
network of light tubes, that you can plug a new unit into when you get
it... picture a room of these units stacked two high, each with a
natural light tube running through the centre, all plugged into a light
"source", which distributes the natural light to all units, like a
computer network.
What about combining the natural light tube with supplemental
artificial light? I know very little about light tubes (other than
small scale fibre optics, of which I know a bit more). Is this kind of
thing feasible for these kind of scales?
Very interesting!
Adam
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