Comments on: Red LEDs to Grow Lettuce

By: tribe.net: www.metaefficient.com

tribe.net: www.metaefficient.com — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:05:29 +0000

LEDs…

Apparently Lettuce loves Red LEDs It’s way better than florescent light and……

By: Robotic Farming » Blog Archive » LED hydroponics in Japan

Robotic Farming » Blog Archive » LED hydroponics in Japan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:46:59 +0000

[...] Japanese firm grows 7000 heads of lettuce per day in a 10-story building under red LEDs. They say that red LEDs are 60% more efficient than [...]

By: Red Icculus

Red Icculus — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:57:50 +0000

I really want to grow using LED’s. Their heat and power consumption is so much lower compared to traditional HID lights.

By: LOL_MEME

LOL_MEME — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:38:12 +0000

…Now imagine a world in revolt because all they have to eat is lettuce.
…Joshua, you just made me LOL so hard I scared the cat.

By: lol

lol — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:13:03 +0000

lmao

some tool linked this to overgrow.com

u little florou kiddie gonna grow with ur LED light now?

By: Loxosceles

Loxosceles — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:25:24 +0000

http://lox.powerblogs.com/posts/1114280617.shtml

The best link hover I’ve seen in years (ok, maybe ever) is on metaefficient.com (just hold your mouse over any link).

When link hovers were starting to come into fashion (around 2000 or so, when the…

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:26:03 +0000

I hate lettuce, especially iceberg lettuce, which is as nutritional as cardboard — it’s an insult to the patrons of the resturants that serve it.

Hopefully this technology works for tomatoes, eggplants, zucchini, and peppers, because I like those. And if we want to save the world, it has to work with potatoes, rice, soy and wheat, because that’s what most people eat. And corn-syrup for all us fattiest in the US.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 05:35:31 +0000

…Now imagine a world in revolt because all they have to eat is lettuce.

By: Bill Bumgarner

Bill Bumgarner — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:03:49 +0000

Now imagine a thousand story building growing lettuce in this way.

Sure. Now, imagine the energy and water consumption of thousand story buildings growing lettuce underground. While this is certainly wonderful technology, until we have renewable, cheap, non-globally-polluting energy sources, solutions such as this are not viable for feeding the world.

By: Whats.IN

Whats.IN — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:40:27 +0000

RED LED makes veggies grow more efficiently.

Apparently red LEDs are 60% more efficient than fluorescent light when growing
vegetables hydroponically…
Entire story here [metaefficient.com]