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by incomingpain 1514 days ago
>HELP SOLVE WORLD HUNGER

I read the plan from the UN on how to solve world hunger and it basically was 'keep giving us billions a year so we can buy more food' which is idiotic and in violation of the 'give a man a fish, teach a man to fish'

What I have been considering, I wish I could entrepreneur and try this.

Could there be a fully automated system in which produces food? Sure I've literally been to greenhouses that didn't need humans in a day2day fashion anyway. But this greenhouse was not sustainable in the 50+ year range.

What I've been wanting to do is build a fully automated aquaponics system. Very low input requirements other than the costly LED lighting and energy. Theoretically could produce tons of food at tremendously low cost.

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Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.

Give a man an industrial-grade hydroponic fish farm, he will eat in perpetuity until the machine fails and someone has to pay an engineer to go fix the fish machine on a Saturday morning.

>Give a man an industrial-grade hydroponic fish farm, he will eat in perpetuity until the machine fails and someone has to pay an engineer to go fix the fish machine on a Saturday morning.

With my luck I'm the engineer.

Maybe give a hydrolysis plant for an ammonia generator, feeding an ammonium nitrate cooling pack factory. Extending the workable time catching fish, while producing sterile fertilizer for deep water.