New technology allows you to grow forests even in the desert. An innovative device called Groasis Waterboxx allows you to grow plants in extreme conditions. Even in the Sahara Desert, about 90 percent of the Waterboxx assisted plants survive. The Waterboxx looks like a manual fruit and vegetable dryer, only without a lid. This device allows you to grow trees and bushes in places where there is no water and turn the desert into an oasis. The new technology allows you to grow forests even in the desert
Dutch inventor Pieter Hoff developed an innovative device called the Groasis Waterboxx. It allows you to grow plants in extreme conditions. Even in the Sahara Desert, about 90 percent of the Waterboxx-assisted plants survive. The Waterboxx looks like a manual fruit and vegetable dryer, only without a lid. This device allows you to grow trees and bushes in places where there is no water and turn the desert into an oasis.
Waterboxx is a no-irrigation incubator that collects water from night dew or rainfall and then feeds the seedling with it for quite a long time. The container also prevents water from evaporating and protects the roots from the sun and from small rodents, keeps the rhizome at a constant temperature, which allows the trees to grow in a protected mode. Thanks to Groasis Waterboxx, the seedling no longer needs a planting hole: the capillary roots will always be intact, which will allow them to transfer moisture regularly and in the right amount to the future tree.
The new technology makes it possible to grow forests even in the desert. Each seedling is attached to a fabric or cardboard substrate inside the container and moisture enters the roots by capillary action. The system consists of a cylindrical body, which contains about 15 liters of water, and an inverted cone-shaped cover allows you to capture drains inside the body. In case of heavy rainfall, the device has a filling valve that draws out excess water. Inside each container there is a place for planting two seedlings.
Over the past five years, the Waterboxx system has been successfully implemented in five lifeless sites – deserts and former quarries with a total area of 65 hectares and the plant survival rate was 80-90 percent, although even 5 percent of the trees did not take root here before.
New technology makes it possible to grow forests even in the desert. Regular monitoring of plant growth was carried out using drones that scanned areas using thermal imagers. So it was possible to grow more than 25 varieties of trees and bushes and significantly increase biodiversity in a practically lifeless expanse. The first prototype of the device was made of plastic, but it was quickly replaced with recycled cardboard, which significantly reduced the cost of production. This invention can help combat hot and dry climates.
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