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by peridotoak 2140 days ago
This is amazing, I'd really love to learn more! Do you have any resources I can look into?
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I don't have a website yet or anything so that I can solely focus on the building, but my email is in my profile.

Essentially, the prototype is a tiny house with greenhouse attachment. Looks like it will come in around ~$25k. The greenhouse is 95% automated using hydroponics and sensors for any adjustments to turn on ventilation, water alerts or ph alerts for making sure the nutrient solutions are where they need to be. We are currently experimenting with deepwater and nft hydroponic systems.

After the prototype, we are going to raise money to build the first neighborhood. Houses will be a bit bigger, ~1500 sq. ft. and be fairly modern style, potentially in Denver. Powered via Solar for now. And basically get 10 or so people to move in all with a skillset that could help push the technology and needle forward on how this could be implemented at a larger scale.

That's pretty good. From my experience just the greenhouse, foundation, growing apparatus, monitoring, growing supplies, and permitting would cost $25k. The labor costs and tiny house would easily put it over. I'd be curious in seeing the breakdown of costs.