{"id":149899,"date":"2022-11-10T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/divers-growing-veggies-in-underwater-greenhouses"},"modified":"2022-11-10T19:23:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T01:23:16","slug":"divers-growing-veggies-in-underwater-greenhouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/divers-growing-veggies-in-underwater-greenhouses","title":{"rendered":"Divers Growing Veggies in Underwater Greenhouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/divers-growing-veggies-in-underwater-greenhouses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s hoping that his plastic orbs, which rest between 15 and 36 feet below the ocean\u2019s surface and hold about 528 gallons of air, will provide a water-conserving, overall sustainable alternative to on-land agricultural operations, particularly helping dry coastal nations grow more food without having to desalinate more water \u2014 a costly and resource-intensive process. The plants require just a small bit of starter water, but from there, they\u2019re self-sustaining. Sunlight heats the submerged spheres, which contain humid air that naturally condenses into freshwater on the walls and drips back into the soil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the underwater farm needs an external source of water only for the start-up of plants growing,\u201d reads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nemosgarden.com\/underwater-vs-standard-agriculture\/\" class=\"\">company\u2019s site<\/a>, \u201cour system could be useful for those locations far from the bodies of water available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s hoping that his plastic orbs, which rest between 15 and 36 feet below the ocean\u2019s surface and hold about 528 gallons of air, will provide a water-conserving, overall sustainable alternative to on-land agricultural operations, particularly helping dry coastal nations grow more food without having to desalinate more water \u2014 a costly and resource-intensive process. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}