GeekyGarden

GeekyGarden t1_iugg49l wrote

Nice. It's amazing the wide use cases for kapton. I work in IT for a wholesale greenhouse and the environment inside the greenhouse is extremely rough on electronics (temperature extremes, dust, and moisture). We use loads of kapton tape as an extra layer of thermal and dust protection for sensor and relay boards. I'm working on an older greenhouse now where the controllers were installed 25 years ago. Amazingly, the company that makes the equipment keeps their software backwards compatible. It'll be running Windows 11 by the end of the week.

With the automation we use in our facilities from environmental controls, to water filtration and recycling, and massive amounts of robotics, it's not hard to imagine greenhouses on the moon or mars in a few decades. I think aeroponics is going to be a huge game changer for growing crops on lunar and martian outposts. I grow enough produce for my wife and I using an aeroponics tower that has a footprint of 4 square feet.

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