The Jellyfish Barge is a floating greenhouse module that uses
hydroponic agriculture and 70% less water compared to traditional agriculture. The barge is made of recyclable materials and uses
solar distillation to collect 150 liters of saltwater daily and turn it into
freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...
. 15% seawater is added back into the water to improve the mineral content and nutritional value of the crops. One module is approximately 70 square meters and can be used to grow between 1400 and 1600 plants per month. 120 units can be constructed on a hectare. The project was included as part of the
Expo 2015
Expo 2015 was a World's fair, World Expo hosted by Milan, Italy. It opened on May 1 at 10:00 Central European Summer Time, CEST and closed on October 31. Milan hosted an exposition for the second time; the first was the 1906 Milan Internation ...
in
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, Italy. The project was conceptualized by
Stefano Mancuso and was financed by the
Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze. The architects of the module are
Antonio Girardi and
Cristina Favretto.
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Jellyfish Barge
Environmental mitigation
Hydroponics
Architectural design
Agricultural technology
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