permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself
https://www.nytimes.com/…/how-singapore-is-creating-more-la…
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/how-singapore-is-creating-more-land-for-itself.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2>

Wow!
A few excerpts:
4 GWatt!
"Last October, to test a proposal from two government agencies, Singapore
floated a hectare of solar panels in one of its reservoirs; it hopes,
eventually, to build a four-gigawatt solar plant at sea."
Vertical farming and an $18 billion farm in China, 15 years to complete!
"Singapore already has high-rise factories: towers occupied by dozens of
manufacturing units, all sharing amenities like cargo elevators,
electricity and truck ramps. Since 2012, the government has funded vertical
farms, shelves of aluminum planters that grow spinach, lettuce and Chinese
cabbage. Singapore grows only 7 percent of its food, having decided long
ago that its land has more profitable uses. In the 1980s, it began
dispatching its pig farms to outlying Indonesian islands like Batam, which
still supplies Singapore with pork. The government has invested $380
million in agricultural projects in Australia, and it is renting land in
northeast China to build itself a farm that will measure double the area of
the island of Singapore. The farm will take 15 years to complete and will
cost $18 billion. Given enough ready money, thorny issues of territorial
sovereignty swiftly dissolve."


-- 
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared