The Aquaponic Solar Greenhouse

这个项目旨在彻底改变英国生产食物的方式。它将利用一种古老的、可持续的养殖技术——鱼菜共生技术，以一种闭环的、生态系统的方式生产新鲜的鱼和植物。生产生态系统将被封闭在一个创新的、低能耗的、最先进的温室结构中，提供一个可控的环境，在温和的气候下一年四季生产食物，同时最大限度地减少能源和水的使用。Aquaponics太阳能温室（ASG）汇集了许多久经考验的技术，这些技术本身都是可持续的，具有开创性的，但当它们结合在一起时，就提供了一个真正可行的全年可持续粮食生产的交钥匙解决方案。ASG有三个关键组成部分：-一个高产闭环水培系统，一年四季以最少的资源投入生产高品质、高价值的鲜鱼（罗非鱼、鲶鱼、鲈鱼和undi）和植物作物（沙拉、草药和水果作物）。-创新的建筑围护结构，被动式太阳能温室，通过ETFE薄膜（伊甸园项目中使用的）最大限度地利用太阳能，在白天捕获多余的能量，储存在热质量中，在晚上被动释放。-可再生能源系统：温室的设计首先是节能，尽可能被动地满足能源需求，然而，当与废热和生物质、厌氧消化和/或太阳能光伏等形式的可再生能源相结合时，生产有可能成为真正可持续的，甚至是负碳的。ASG已经在小规模上进行了开发、原型和验证，我们的目标是利用Greenius奖快速扩展到可工作的商业产品。

This project aims to revolutionise the way we produce food in the UK. It will utilise an ancient, sustainable growing technique, Aquaponics, to produce both fresh fish and plants in a closed-loop, ecosystem approach to farming. The productive ecosystem will be enclosed in an innovative, low energy, state of the art greenhouse structure that provides a controlled environment in which to produce food all year round, in a temperate climate, whilst minimising the use of energy and water. The Aquaponics Solar Greenhouse (ASG) brings together a number of tried and tested technologies, all sustainable and groundbreaking in their own right, but when combined provide a truly viable turnkey solution to year round, sustainable food production.The ASG has three key components:- A highly productive closed-loop aquaponic system producing high quality, high value fresh fish (tilapia, catfish, perch and barramundi) and plant crops (salads, herbs and fruiting crops) year round with minimal resource inputs.- An innovative building envelope, a passive solar greenhouse, which maximises use of solar energy through its ETFE film (as used at the Eden project) to capture surplus energy during the day which is stored in the thermal mass to be released passively at night.- A renewable energy system: the greenhouse is designed first and foremost to be energy efficient and to meet energy needs passively wherever possible, however when integrated with waste heat and renewable energy in the form of biomass, anaerobic digestion and/or solar photovoltaics, production has the potential to becomes truly sustainable and even carbon negative.The ASG has been developed, prototyped and validated on a small scale and we aim to use the Greenius award to rapidly scalee up to a working commercial product.