Iceland's vertical farm turning algae into food | BBC News

With short summers, a cold climate, and a landscape of lava fields and glaciers, Iceland's not the first place you'd link with food production.

But pioneering entrepreneurs are growing some surprising crops, and doing it sustainably.

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[rufusmecs]

Iceland has one HUGE advantage, unlimited geothermal energy (Very low cost).

[Ivan-fsgo]

Algae - the dinner of the dinner of my dinner

[curiositycloset]

Better than the bugs the BBC usually pushes

[djayjp]

2:41 "Energy, CO2, and water--that's all that's needed for this aquatic organism to grow." False. You stated that it's "rich in iron". Where does the iron come from...?

[edmundprice]

if nothing else, algae makes good fertiliser or animal feed

[patrickskramstad]

I would suggest sharing this algae idea 💡 with the Shell oil company, because if memory serves they were trying to make a type of bio diesel or fuel with algae.

[alexdarby]

I take algae oil, fantastic stuff, used it to replace cod liver oil

[lfeb]

Every area around the world should have one of these farms.

[publics.public]

Mushrooms don't need lighting to grow.

[mulchas.]

Of course, it can be.
I saw it in stardew valley.

[mont]

I'd wish that my area of Northern California had a lot more geothermal energy, but the last time we did the hotspot ubder our geysers was under a mountain that erupted & gave a petrified forest.

[___beyondhorizon]

Blue humus is designed by cookie monster 😅

[JT-Works]

I would like the algae plant made super small and put in places where people are starving. From there optimize for taste and nutrition.

[miggle]

How is it reducing CO2 exactly? Seems great though and the blue algae hummus looks delicious and nutritious.

[pippalewisNYC]

I'm ready for blue food actually. The other food looked like dark chocolate cake frosting to me.... which I'm always down for.

[Shaun.Stephens]

Not 'umlimited' geothermal energy. Words have meaning - I remember when the BBC understood that.

[facitenonvictimarum]

Yes, if you're a Marine Iguana on the Galapagos.

[bwillans]

You never see Triticeae crops, in any of these urban farms.

[cheese-power]

As long as you put enough sugar in it, people will have no trouble eating it ;)

[gg.youlubeatube]

Keep your sustainable blue grass, I will keep my old fashioned steak.