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  "id": "texto-caja-se-siembra",
  "language": "en",
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  "title": "Box grows",
  "summary": "Urban cultivation idea with bands and per-plant control modules.",
  "author": "Paynalton",
  "format": "technical",
  "year": 2014,
  "source": "https://paynalton.blogspot.com/2014/02/caja-se-siembra.html",
  "partial": false,
  "topics": [
    {
      "title": "Technical texts",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-categoria-tecnicos/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Technical text",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-texto-tecnico/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Technical proposal",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-propuesta-tecnica/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Agriculture",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-agricultura/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Automation",
      "url": "https://paynalton.tech/en/topics/lectura-automatizacion/"
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  "body": "I've had this idea for a while to do continuous cultivation in endless bands within urban facilities.<br><br>The idea is to create a system that allows for continuous food production in stackable endless bands equipped with temperature, nutrition, and irrigation systems necessary for food production, enabling the construction of food-producing buildings, which would save a lot of space and even allow production to be brought into cities.<br><br>Yesterday I read a bit about the effect of LED lighting on plants, and today, upon reflecting on it, I came up with the idea of complementing the endless bands with individual per-plant control modules instead of equipment along the endless band.<br><br>These would be small vital support modules for plants, connected to a centralized controller, that could provide what is necessary for a plant to achieve its optimal development.<br><br>I'll start experimenting with beans (I love beans) to create a very simple module and see how well a plant can develop in one of these modules.<br><br>If it works well, I would like to create more modules and start producing food at home.<br><br>For now, it would only be with endogamous species, since I still don't have an idea on how to control pollination.\n"
}