The Aquaponic Solar Greenhouse

该项目旨在彻底改变我们在英国生产食品的方式。它将利用一种古老的、可持续的种植技术--鱼菜共生技术，以闭环生态系统的方式生产鲜鱼和植物。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，提供一个受控的环境，在温和的气候中全年生产食物，同时最大限度地减少能源和水的使用。鱼菜共生太阳能温室（ASG）汇集了许多久经考验的技术，所有这些技术本身都是可持续的和开创性的，但当它们结合在一起时，为全年可持续的粮食生产提供了一个真正可行的交钥匙解决方案。ASG有三个关键组成部分：-一个高效的闭环鱼菜共生系统，以最少的资源投入，全年生产高质量，高价值的新鲜鱼类（罗非鱼，鲶鱼，鲈鱼和肺鱼）和植物作物（沙拉，草药和水果作物）。一个创新的建筑围护结构，一个被动式太阳能温室，它通过ETFE薄膜（如在伊甸园项目中使用的）最大限度地利用太阳能，以在白天捕获剩余的能量，这些能量储存在热物质中，在晚上被动地释放。可再生能源系统：温室的设计首先是节能的，并尽可能被动地满足能源需求，然而，当与废热和生物质形式的可再生能源、厌氧消化和/或太阳能光合作用相结合时，生产有可能变得真正可持续，甚至是负碳的。我们的目标是利用格林纽斯奖迅速扩大到一个工作的商业产品。

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.