Vertical farming update

[Lauxa]

I know there are some vertical farming buffs here, so thought I'd pass on this recent update from Valcent (I subscribed to their email list) :

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Re: News Release - Thursday, December 04, 2008
Valcent Nearing Completion Of Its First Commercial H.D.V.G.
Vegetable Production Plant
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El Paso, TX. - December 4, 2008 -Valcent expects to complete
construction of the first full scale commercial High Density Vertical
Growing System project at its El Paso Research facility. Site
preparation is complete and erection of the one eighth acre plant
expects greenhouse containment structure is at an advanced stage.
Valcent COO Forrest Ely has forecasted completion of the project to
occur in mid - February, with the first harvest expected in mid-March.
The High Density Vertical Growing System will now be known as
"VertiCrop".

Glen Kertz, Valcent's President and CEO commented, "The completion of
the VertiCrop plant will demonstrate, on a commercial basis, the high
quality food products the technology is capable of producing. With ten
to twenty times the yields of conventional field crops, while using
only 5% of the water and nutrients, VertiCrop technology will provide
sustainable, renewable, high density food production, sited in urban
areas, insuring food supply at reasonable cost. This new commercial
plant represents a key sales tool in facilitating the Company's plans
to market this technology globally."

Discovery Communications' Science Channel announced that its first
series available for international distribution is "Brink," a show
about cutting-edge breakthroughs in technology, research, inventions
and discoveries from the scientific world. The series is hosted by
Australian Josh Zepps and the second episode will feature Valcent
Products' advances in algae biofuel and vertical farming! Be sure to
tune in on Friday, December 5th at 10 p.m or you can catch a repeat on
Dec 6th 1:00 am, Dec 7th 5:00 am or Dec 8th at 5:00 pm.

The company is pleased to announce the launching of a Business Blog
site at Valcent Blog —
as of Friday, December 5.

[RRR]

Awwwwesome. I want to visit it when it opens Fits very well into my ideals

Do you know if it is organic?

[Dan.Linehan]

I know who I'm buying stock in from now on..


@RRR, it should be 100% organic. There is no need to use pesticides / GMO seeds in a greenhouse environment.

[garentee]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

I know who I'm buying stock in from now on..


@RRR, it should be 100% organic. There is no need to use pesticides / GMO seeds in a greenhouse environment.

Au contraire... There are usually serious pest populations in greenhouses.. due to the nature of growing a lot of different things in a small enclosed space.. not to say that there are not organic options or that you need to spray chemical stuff.

[Dan.Linehan]

I just bought 2,500 shares @ $0.24 / share. We'll see how it does.

Way cheaper than Google, that's for sure!