The cutting edge technology of Europe's biggest greenhouse | DW News
The cutting edge technology of Europe's biggest greenhouse | DW News
Europe’s biggest greenhouse is the size of 80 soccer fields. A technical organism, but does it also make ecological sense? Plants are illuminated with LEDs, heated with waste wood, and irrigated with rainwater. Everything is coordinated.
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Too much "feel-good" cr*p.
move away from fossil fuels. hahaha!😁 have a look at every bit of material used to build your greenhouses. all produced from manufacturing companies using fossil fuel. Enough with the climate change rubbish.
Few comments here. Just because its not a political content.
fantastic, they should offer consultancy services so that other countries can also use these techs and farm in a more efficient way
Eficiency eficiency, when the company will be 100% efficient, neither the hand labor of workers and owners will be needed. And then, was that the porpouse of the company?
You have no idea how dangerous is the creation of such giants for both fair competition and consumers. And this is possible only based on EU subsidised capital form EU taxpayers. This is exactly what brought the EU farmers and consumers to today's uprising and desolation.
The music is too loud and distracting.
Want to feed the world? Ask the Dutch🇳🇱🎉❤
We need an in-depth documentary for this.
tell me where they get all the water from for the farm and especially the power plant? im gonna miss our aquifers
Cutting edge if you consider a total divorce from nature and use of plastics as a good thing.
Technological advances doesn't mean its good for the planet.
Chemicals, chemicals, chemicals.
How much cost dig the peat and make plastics in terms of enviroment? Ship plants from africa to netherlands? If you take the same criteria used in normal farming this would be extreme
Capitalism is awesome
great, now you can invade other countys to force them to compete with this kind of industrialization in market economies
Imagine growing marijuana in this greenhouse
I am sorry, but the video is soo badly cut and paced. It feels super random and very badly thought through.
I'd love to watch videos about all the different processes that this company employs, it would be fascinating
Maybe the directors should mention that greenhouses in Ethiopia use so much water from lakes that the people around are starving. Dont buy for example roses from Ethiopia!
The downfall of Europe will cause the uprising of Africa.
So ecological no plastic in sight 😁. Some would say that it would be more ecological for people to grow their balcony plants on the spot from seeds, but Its apparently more green to transport them from a plastic greenhouse using diesel and trucks 😅
Interesting.
One of the important elements would be the wages paid to overseas workers (benefits, retirement plans, vacation…) and also the types of plants (genetically modified, pesticide free or not, fungicide, organic or not).
It would also be interesting to test the limits of such a model in colder or warmer climates, including for sustainance microcrops.
Indigenous populations might benefit from such greenhouses, including sunken ones in colder climates taking advantage of geothermal set ups.
Nice PR job, would be interesting to get the real inside scoop
Another example of monopolization by capitalism. This displaces local farmers, they cannot afford to build such multibillion-dollar complexes.
Cool, now I have like 40 years to get to that level 🙂
Sorry, I must add a point: Greenhouses are still a major thread to ecosystems and biodiversity: native animals and plants cannot live there, unlike openfield farming. The abundance of insects and birds (acting as pollinators and pest control) are replaced with a single specie of bumblebee, ladybird or hoverfly. This means loss of all other species and fragile ecosystem (if those bumblebee gets a disease, no other species can replace this function, unlike natural ecosystems). YES it is economically profitable, NO it's not ecologically susteinable.
Since when the German – Dutch border is considerer the middle of Europe? :)) DW News is in need of some serious Geography lessons!
As a 35 year blueberry picking veteran,i give this place an A+.
Ecology? Are you speaking orwellish?
Fantastic report, great company, ethical and morally responsible, leading future concept. It must have cost millions though, and worth every penny 😅
ahahaha the're riding a bike inside the factory, but still using plastic packaging
No thanks. That plastic goes in your food and is an endocrine disruptor.
A model to follow once cities decide to become self sufficient
i bet all this workers are from ukrain
The water system is more or less standart in germany and Austria for modern greenhouses.
I think it will be a great buisness idea for agriculture and hoticulture students But capital investment & consulting base should be enough strong
I thought, how weird the Netherlands🇳🇱 is normally the World Leader of greenhouses and their innovations. But now I it's a Dutch🧡 family who has their company just over the border within Germany😂 hahaha smart, because the land, gas and minimum wage prices are way lower there🙌🙌 Go Holland!🇳🇱🧡
Family business. It doesn't mean anything.
ah yeah the good old "family business model", as if Germany did not have enough oligarchs already..
How much turf (torf) do they use?
Impressive, but this operation is in no way an eco friendly climate change prevention sustainable business.
Firstly, they import plants grown in Ethiopia that have to be delivered as air cargo.
Secondly, the sheer amount of plastic, most of which is likely to be made from virgin feedstocks, has a VERY heavy greenhouse gas footprint along it's (entire) supply chain and will largely end up being 'single use plastic' in nature that will be either landfilled or incinerated. It's very difficult as a gardener to find a way to recycle the types of plastic you acquire from the horticultural industry; trust me, I know from years-long experience.
Thirdly, the burning of waste wood simply returns the carbon contained therein to the atmosphere along with the nitrous oxides and sulphur dioxide produced as byproducts of biomass combustion, all of which are heavy greenhouse gas pollutants.
The use of solar panels on the greenhouses rooftops is an excellent choice and I understand the economic benefit to the business of selling the excess electricity to the grid. But a much better choice would be to use most, if not all of this excess electricity to power industrial sized heat pumps to heat the greenhouses instead of using polluting biomass.
I was expecting content with a little more depth to it from DW.
During narration, the music was too loud. During dialogue, the music was lowered properly. I was riding my volume using some quality headphones on a Mac using Firefox browser.