- First of all, very welcome
at the first floating farm
in the world.
My name is Peter, and we are
here in the Port of Rotterdam.
We're designing, developing,
engineering floating farms
on the water.
It's a challenge in the world
to find space inside cities
to produce healthy food
very close to consumers.
One of every four trucks is food related.
When you look at New
York City, for instance,
1500 trucks comes in every day
just to bring in food from the Midwest.
So we really have to change
the way we are producing
and distributing food.
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You were working in New York
shortly after Hurricane
Sandy hit New York.
And Hurricane Sandy hit
New York really really bad.
And we saw that the stores were empty.
The shelves were empty with fresh food.
And that's how we came up with the idea
to make a farm within the city
so we can always produce healthy
food close to the consumer.
Make the farm part of a city.
It's what we call transfarmation.
We want to be completely
self-sufficient over here
on energy, water and feed
stock within the city.
So if you look at the
building we developed,
it is a three layer building.
There's one part below the water,
and it's really cool, the temperature.
So we can use that cool space.
And there's a processing
area on the first layer.
And then we have the
third layer as a stable.
We collect rainwater from the roof.
The rainwater is being filtered
with a membrane technology
and then goes back as
drinking water for the cows.
We have floating solar panels next door,
and we also reuse the manure
to make it a fertilizer
to give back to the city.
So we not only give
back dairy to the city,
but also the manure as a fertilizer.
We're still waiting for a windmill,
and we're looking into hydrogen.
But next year there will be
7,000 chickens on the water.
So we have dairy, eggs and vegetables
within one and half year over here.
All on the water, completely floating.
And that's really important.
Because then we reduce transportation.
We do not get soil from
somewhere else in the world.
We do not have to kill forests.
We maintain all nutrients
here in the city.
We created, in our opinion,
one of the best stables in the world.
I strongly believe that
this model can be reapplied
everywhere in the world
where there is water.
We have requests now
from all over the world,
because there are countries
that do not have space at all,
like Singapore for instance,
there are countries that
are continuously flooded
like Bangladesh.
We have created an engine.
You put the plug in and it runs.
And that can be done everywhere.
For us, creating a better
world is essential.
It's our key drive.
It's not only a passion,
but we strongly believe
that we have to change.
And we have to change now.
We wanted to do something
to create a better world,
and that's what we're showing on here.
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