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Food Tree

Food Tree is a portable, fully automated, freely supplied, automated  food factory. All the products come from the renewable resources of water, air, sunlight and wind. This technology reduces the pressure on finding and changing natural habitat land into farmland, the stress on wildlife sancturies  and the pollution from growing, packaging and transportation of food products. The Food Tree products are food, energy and communications.

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Charity

Mission

811 million people — about 10% of the world’s population — regularly go hungry for more than two days. The Ukraine war worsened conditions in 2022 as conflict continues 2023 will restrict global food supplies, drives up prices, and threaten the world’s most vulnerable people and countries with malnutrition and dehydration.

 

More than 48 million people are facing emergency levels of starvation, with the threat of acute malnutrition, dehydration, desease and death, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). Reports from Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) indicate that the condition is worsening with a sharp increase of nearly 40 million people in over 57 countries this year.

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Vision

Food Tree is a portable, fully automated, freely supplied,  integrated food factory. Designed to have no dependency on land or power to grow the diversified crop.  All the required inputs come from the renewable resources of water, air, sunlight and wind. This technology reduces the pressure on finding and changing natural habitat land into farmland, and effective water management reduces the stress on water aquifers, dams, wells and monsoons and the pollution from packaging and transportation of food products. 

 

We optimise resource utilisation and vegetation production through the innovative integration of five commercially available mass-produced technologies:  

-  Long-range wireless communications, 

-  Solar and Wind Generator supplying renewable power

- a mass-produced computer with an AI learning program, 

-  mineral wool growth medium 

- ultrasonic & light parasitic defences to protect the vertical growing tower from insect and animal attack. 

 

Basing our design on bio-mimicry whilst including a robust, sophisticated automated sensor array like a forest has enhanced to value and productivity of the technology. The towers establish a communication network infrastructure connecting the vertical farms. Sharing environmental and production data enhances community income whilst warning of environmental or parasitic threats to the communities they serve.

 

Tools for Sustainable Earth will use all donations to build Food Tree prototypes. We will continue to validate our lab's proof of concept results in field conditions. Your contribution will bring this revolutionary technology closer to commercial reality - eradicating dehydration, malnutrition and all forms of poverty globally. 

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Design

Multi-modal communication - Food Tree has an integrated Satelite Communications (SatCom), Wide Area Network (WAN), Local Area Network (LAN), WiFi for a local/community area network. and a fibre/cable port for connection to a physical internet point of presence (POP) if available. This facilitates communication to other units within line of sight or low orbit. This free communications infrastructure enables the sending of environmental data, early warning environmental alerts to isolated villages and the delivery of education material / interactive tuition to remote communities. 

 

100% renewable energy - Powered by a vertical wind turbine and a thin film deployable P.V. solar power collector, the technology has no requirement for additional power sources. A battery array stores any extra power for community use. 

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Vertical Floraponic Farm - Floraponics is a novel plant communication technology that allows plants to request changes to their environment - including water, shade/light and temperature. the vertical plant growth structure enables the computer to fulfil these needs accelerating  plant growth, food yields and quality.

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A.I. Sensor Array - Food Tree includes a broad spectrum sensor array collecting environmental, ecological and climate data. This information is transmitted to the cloud in real-time. The Artificial Intelligence unit monitors all aspects of the technologies operation and makes fine adjustments to optimise water, communications and energy production. Communication with other units enables the non-chemical biological defences to be primed for potential regional or airborne parasitic attacks. 

Some innovative solutions can universally disrupt our current 'Fire Age' society.  

Our vision of meeting all humanities needs with renewable resources is probably the greatest of these: 

Sustainably supplying humanity's need for combustion(heat, light and cooking), land (food, grazing and cash crops)

connection, communication and environmentally sourced water.

Whilst simultainiously providing an income for everyone trapped in poverty today

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