Global Cooling Technology: Deep Ocean Water Agriculture

Agriculture employing Deep Ocean Water (DOW) can help increase growth rates by cooling garden soil below the dew point, at the Natural Energy Lab where DOW is pumped ashore.
A closed pipe system buried beneath the soil is designed to regulate and circulate the cold water, chilling the soil to 45oF, well below the dew point, so moisture drawn from the atmosphere moistens the cool garden, much like condensation gathers on a glass of iced tea.

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[SpaceHog2099]

No it makes after hearing the temperature of the soil and air at the end of the vid. The soil being cooled and not having the nutrients rising with the heat and transpiring into the air will make the notion of DOW very interesting in its applications besides cooling

[lytrigian]

This facility itself is interesting. It was built as an experimental open-cycle (I think) OTEC plant, generating electricity from the temperature difference between surface and the depths. That's why DOW was available for this project in the first place.

[otivaeey]

Ok, you said "somebody has started", who? Me too has this idea since years ago. We want to know who is the pioneer who has such a money and land, and create a society specially on this project.

[desertblbuesman]

if like me you do not have a source of cold water to spare, I think a layer of straw covered with WHITE plastic would keep root temperatures lower. Whether one would get the dew point effect, not sure. White plastic can be recycled from boat shrink wrap (thrown out annually at marinas conveniently in the spring) and other shrink wrapped items. I think I will try this next year here in high plains AZ where the soil gets hot and large amounts of precious water is needed.

[TOAFN]

You're a sanitation engineer? you mean a toilet fixer?

Nice favorites too for an 35 year old engineer!!

[nritnrat]

Please tell me this is satire. Every attempt man has made to "fix" the environment artificially has failed.

[dannyhill1971lives]

This style of gardening is not exactly new. Its quite old school.

[dickenine]

There's this vid by this dude RichardTrekkerTheII who is a Belgian research scientist who got banned from the scientific community for speaking his mind on this stuff and it really made me think different and get off my ass and do something. I highly recommend it.

[UnderseaCaveman]

Furthermore, because the soil temperature is manually controlled, a plant can be "tricked" into fruting several times per annum (versus the once per annum winter cooling). Higher yields both in season and year!

Dr. Craven Rocks!