The Green Wheel would grow herbs and veggies, Halo-style

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Back in the 80s, NASA envisioned a system for growing herbs and other edible plants in the zero-gravity environment of a spacecraft. Although it never got off the drawing board, that system consisted of a rotating ring with built-in hydroponics, which the plants grew on the inside of. Flash forward a few decades, and Italian design firm DesignLibero has taken that concept and re-imagined it as a consumer device, known as The Green Wheel... Continue Reading The Green Wheel would grow herbs and veggies, Halo-style

Section: Good Thinking

Tags: Food technology, Garden, Hydroponics, Plants

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