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Indoor farming recommendations for my solar powered bunker vault

Oh for soil based the cocoa coir is the way to go. It's impressive how much a brick expands.
I'd mix that in with some good soil from FoxFarm and a bit of Perlite. Plants love it.
 
I wonder if a decent above ground pool pump and sand filter would be the way to go circulating all this.

I see them all the time at habitat for humanity re stores
 
I wonder if a decent above ground pool pump and sand filter would be the way to go circulating all this.

I see them all the time at habitat for humanity re stores
For a huge system I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I was using a cheap amazon pump when I bought a recirculating DWC bucket system.
I'd skip the sand filter, that's the roots job.
 

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Danner™ Aqua-Mag Magnetic Drive are rebuildable and unless you drop them they will out live you. This one is probably to powerful. Ran on my marine aquariums for years then moved it to the hydroponic garden. Soak it in acid to clean it off or replace the impeller. The large body is just a 60hz coil.

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I am pretty ignorant to the hydro and aquaponic space. Planning to build a large indoor farm and/or jungle in my bunker vault.

Are there indoor farm modules I can mount on my wall and hook up easily?

What requires the least maintance to fulfill the needs of the plants.

I really do not want to waste water. I'm in the desert and if the grid were to go down, water would become very scarce.

Put an aquaponic system be the easiest? I want to be able to not touch it for a month and come back with food ready.

Word instead of these water systems should I just plant some potatoes on a wall mount planter and run water lines to each one? Those can produce a lot of food.
the humidity/moisture inside bunker would get a bit funky I would think. I believe you have a mini-split...does it have a 'dry' mode for humidity removal? that will be one heck of a load.
Also not sure why I thought this, but weren't you thinking of moving to southern washington for a while? Maybe bought some land already? Didn't expect you to remain in the dessert long term.
 
the humidity/moisture inside bunker would get a bit funky I would think. I believe you have a mini-split...does it have a 'dry' mode for humidity removal? that will be one heck of a load.
Also not sure why I thought this, but weren't you thinking of moving to southern washington for a while? Maybe bought some land already? Didn't expect you to remain in the dessert long term.
Yes. Two of them already installed and running. Very true.
 
the humidity/moisture inside bunker would get a bit funky I would think. I believe you have a mini-split...does it have a 'dry' mode for humidity removal? that will be one heck of a load.
Also not sure why I thought this, but weren't you thinking of moving to southern washington for a while? Maybe bought some land already? Didn't expect you to remain in the dessert long term.
No I would never ever move there. I said in one video that I was going to buy a property for Bitcoin mining next to a hydroelectric dam. I would never in a million years live in Washington State. Haha

No plans right now. I don't want to buy more property though. The properties I have in Utah already pain in the butt.
 
The influx of cryptocurrency miners into Central Washington's Columbia Basin, drawn by cheap hydroelectric power from the region's dams, has significantly impacted the local power grid and economy. Chelan County, for example, charges miners roughly triple what it charges residents for electricity.
 
The influx of cryptocurrency miners into Central Washington's Columbia Basin, drawn by cheap hydroelectric power from the region's dams, has significantly impacted the local power grid and economy.
Then make more power lol they can make a ton of money from it. Sounds like they are mismanaged
 
No plans right now. I don't want to buy more property though. The properties I have in Utah already pain in the butt.
Whats up with those properties? I invest a lot in real estate, not bitcoin or securities. Feel free to DM if you prefer, know you are busy.
 
"Their company, Giga, places a shipping container full of thousands of bitcoin miners on an oil well, diverts the natural gas into generators, which convert the gas into electricity that is then used to power the miners."

WOW, not you have to admit that was pretty clever. Now if they only grew potatoes and kale it wouldn't be off topic :fp2

Good story though..
 
I am pretty ignorant to the hydro and aquaponic space. Planning to build a large indoor farm and/or jungle in my bunker vault.

Are there indoor farm modules I can mount on my wall and hook up easily?

What requires the least maintance to fulfill the needs of the plants.

I really do not want to waste water. I'm in the desert and if the grid were to go down, water would become very scarce.

Put an aquaponic system be the easiest? I want to be able to not touch it for a month and come back with food ready.

Word instead of these water systems should I just plant some potatoes on a wall mount planter and run water lines to each one? Those can produce a lot of food.
There was a self contained egg shaped pod looking thing I saw at CES this year. Can't remember the name of the company. Seemed like it was potentially somewhat automated.
 
end of days when money, bitcoin, and basic supplies are hard to find or lost there value.

Food and entertainment will rule. Since Will doesn't drink he would be the perfect supplyer

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