"A One-Acre Farm in a 320 Square Foot Box"- title of an article
I recently read two articles about how companies have figured out how to use a 320 square foot shipping container with LEDs, climate controls, and hydroponics in order to be able to produce 900 heads of leafy greens per container each week. The cost of the one company's containers are $60,000.
Wow!
I am not impressed with the price but the idea of re-using the containers. The cost of old used containers can not be much. Lets go with $1000. To outfit it with the electronics and necessary tools to make it functional , probably another 9k. All together maybe $10,000 would do the trick.
So if you can create a way for someone to buy up a bunch of containers, update them and place them in inner cities on old lots that have a power and water connection, you could turn a profit pretty quickly.
Today's question is:
"What other uses besides gardening could old containers be put to use?"
I recently read two articles about how companies have figured out how to use a 320 square foot shipping container with LEDs, climate controls, and hydroponics in order to be able to produce 900 heads of leafy greens per container each week. The cost of the one company's containers are $60,000.
Wow!
I am not impressed with the price but the idea of re-using the containers. The cost of old used containers can not be much. Lets go with $1000. To outfit it with the electronics and necessary tools to make it functional , probably another 9k. All together maybe $10,000 would do the trick.
So if you can create a way for someone to buy up a bunch of containers, update them and place them in inner cities on old lots that have a power and water connection, you could turn a profit pretty quickly.
Today's question is:
"What other uses besides gardening could old containers be put to use?"
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