Geodesic Domes and Food Self-Sufficiency

I live in Fort Simpson, which is located in the Northwest Territories of Canada. If you look at a map of Canada, you will find the Territories are located above the 60th parallel.

The bush lands of the North have a very deep and rich soil. In fact all the land from a little north of Fort Simpson to a little south of the 60th parallel (a vast area) has been classified as A-1 prime farm land by the Federal Government of Canada. In the past, there have been some very successful farming operations in the NWT. However, because of the very short growing season, there has been very little exploitation of the land in this area for the purpose of farming. Also in the past there have been large greenhouse operations in the north, but this has proven to be a very expensive way to extend the growing season.

It can be demonstrated that the use of geodesic dome technology would be a very cost effective way to extend the growing season. There are 15 very good reasons why it would be ideal to use geodesic dome technology for the

purpose of food production. These reasons can be found in; "Critical Path" by R. Buckminster Fuller on pages 209 to 213. I will present four of them here:

"If in producing the geodesic domes-within-domes we make them transparent or translucent on their sunny side and opaque and inwardly reflecting on the non-sunny side, they will entrap progressively greater amounts of Sun energy as heat for longer and greater periods of time as the diameters are increased."

"If growing vegetation--i.e., trees, vegetables, corn, sugar, ground cover, etc. --is planted within the dome, the photosynthetic conversion of Sun radiation into hydrocarbon molecules will chemically and simultaneously:

--convert the monoxide gases given off by human occupants into human-supporting (air) atmosphere, thus eliminating all necessity for windows or air conditioning apparatus, and

--harvest hydrocarbon molecule-trapped energy as food or as fuel-alcohol energy."

"Sum-totally it is now demonstrable that properly designed domes with in domes become energy-harvesting machines that provide more energy than is needed for the high-standard life support of their human occupants, wherefore such dwelling machines may become exporters of energy in variously stored and controlled forms, such as alcohol."

"World Game's design science treats the tensegrity-structured, dome-within-dome geodesic environment controls as comprehensive energy-harvesting, -storing, and -exchanging devices. Typically, the vegetation most efficiently employed includes the growth of corn and the "winged bean" in the sun light area and mushrooms in the hot, dark areas."

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"The Earth is but one country, and mankind it's citizens." --Baha'u'llah