Wheel garden solar powered will save California from drought

In California, where water for agriculture is not stable enough, the question of the development of technologies to eliminate this issue is always relevant. Alexander Predon has developed an elegant solution — a rotating desalination plant for water, which is powered by solar energy. It produces clean drinking water for the city of Santa Monica.





Ring Garden is not just a wheel that presnet water. It is also a garden. It can produce 16 million gallons of pure water, 40 thousand pounds aeroponic culture and 11 thousand pounds of spirulina to feed cattle. Energy it is fed by photovoltaic panels that produce 440 MW·h every year. All this energy spent on work wheels.

 


Special screens protect the fish and underwater creatures. 60% of desalinated water is used for irrigation of plants, 30% to the urban network, and the remaining 10%, which can be potentially toxic to marine flora and fauna, fed through the bioreactor for the cultivation of spirulina.

This "farm" can potentially grow and vegetables. In order to create the conditions for crop growth, need water, sun, nutrients and CO2, which the wheel and provides. If it is built, it will consume 9 million gallons of water per year and process 331 million gallons that could be used in 2300 households in California.



In addition, the wheel should be a work of art. For example, an April 22 Earth Day the Sun will Shine right through the middle, and visitors will be able to swim to it boat to build and to plant vegetables in the outdoor garden. published

Source: hightech.fm/2016/08/26/Ring_Garden