Omega Hydroponic Garden Claims More Yield For Less Energy

Indoor Hydroponic gardens usually are big and hungry energy sucking installations, with abnormally high electricity usage. The Omega Hydroponic garden though, is a different variety all together as Vancouver based Omega Garden’s Carousel System aims at more efficient use of energy, with claims of higher food yield as compared to conventional hydroponic gardens.

At the heart of the system are LEDs that reduce power consumption, and plants are rotated around these sources, each plant exactly at the same distance from the source, and at the optimal distance for maximum efficiency.

Omega Garden says plant growth depends on plant growth hormones called Auxins. With rotation, the Auxins are distributed through the plant more efficiently, thus leading to quicker growth. The Garden calls this phenomenon “Orbitropism”.

They even have figures and stats to back their claims. While growing a pound of basil used 3.7kWh of energy from a flourescent lamp, the same feat was accomplished by consuming just 0.38 kWh of LED lamps.

Growing plants in the sunlight may not require any use of electricity at all, but then the use of tractors, pesticides and transportation requires a lot of fossil fuels, which isn’t the case with the Omega Garden.

[via TreeHugger]

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