Blinking LEDs Could Fight Food Poverty

Nov-01-17 A new vertical farm design from the students at Carnegie Mellon University relies on rapidly blinking LEDs.

While vertical farms as a way to fight food poverty are not particularly new, the system from the team at CMU stands out in its simplicity and novel experiment. Rather than an array of expensive equipment, the students’ farm design relies on basic metal shelving, opaque plastic, and LEDs. The key to the students’ experiment lies in the blinking rate of the LEDs, which flash at different speeds, allowing the team to determine the minimum of light (and energy) required to produce the best plants.

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