Sentences with phrase «using aquaponics systems»

People might purify irradiated water using a substance called graphene oxide, and they could grow food using aquaponics systems that cycle nutrients between plants and fish.

Growing Power raises tilapia using an aquaponics system.

Not exact matches

Aquaponics uses the wastewater from farmed fish to supply nutrients to a hydroponic system, which in turn purifies the water.

Starting in 1997, Dr. James Rakocy and his colleagues at the University of the Virgin Islands researched and developed the use of deep water culture hydroponic grow beds in a large - scale aquaponics system.

Sweet Water's aquaponic system simulates a natural wetland by using fish waste to fertilize plants, and plants to filter the fish's water.

Aquaponics uses a hydroponics system in conjunction with aquaculture, which integrates the waste and water from the fish (or other aquatic animals) as fertilizer for the plants.

Planter boxes were built around the wall within the dome, and initially an aquaponics system using a 2000 liter water tank took up the central space, but Mikkelsen ended up swapping the aquaponics system for more traditional grow beds, because he said the system needed too much of his attention.