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The 21st Century has seen a dramatic increase
worldwide in efforts to advance energy innovations to change the
way homes and businesses are powered, cars are fueled and food
production is achieved. Advancing renewable energy and
energy efficiency technologies has become an economic necessity
as demand outpaces supply of non-renewable energy sources
resulting in price increases consumers cannot affort to pay.
Equally important drivers for promoting the development of
renewable energy sourcing is the negative environmental impact
of burning non-renewable fossil fuels. It is believed that
it is believed that fossil fuel energy providers are the largest
source of atmospheric pollution today impacting air pollution,
water pollution, the accumulation of solid waste, land
degradation thereby to human and animal illness.In agriculture,
labor and energy costs are the leading variable operating
expenses contributing to the uncertainties small farmers face
ensuring profitability of their farming operations. The
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™)
mission is specifically designed to encourage the
development of food production facilities and technologies
optimized for low energy consumption and high cost savings.
For the first project, the
GYOM™
executive team is completely focused and committed to
developing an innovative food production facility design that
minimizes operational energy costs even as it maximizes food
prodution capacity. For the first iteration of this
design, the
GYOM™
executive team in collaboration with its partner,
Next Generation Energy has elected to
use solar energy to supply heating and cooling
within the food production facility. In addition to the
use of a renewable energy source, the food production facility
is designed specifically to decrease the cost of energy
consumption in the interior space. Although solar is the
renewable energy resource selected for this first project, many
others such small hydro, modern biomass, wind, geothermal, and
biofuels excellent condidates for future facilities depending
only on location, availability and installation costs. It
is expected the lower, long-term operating costs achieved by
incorporating significant energy efficiences will more than
offset the inital higher cost of building a facility that
implements a renewable energy resource as its power source.
If renewable energy and energy efficiencies are an important
criteria to encourage lending your support,
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™) is a project that
reflects this imperative completely. |
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