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Pieter Hoff grows trees with very little water

DateWednesday, June 22, 2011 at 11:21PM

Pieter Hoff

Pieter HoffDutch bulb grower, Pieter Hoff has an idea about how to make deserts bloom: capture the humidity in the air, store it in a box, and use that condensation to water plants. He calls this box the Groasis waterboxx and he thinks it can change how we feed the world and reduce greenhouse gases.

VIDEO: Pieter Hoff - 10/2010 by Beth Cohen

 

His solution to both is the Groasis Waterboxx: a device that “drinks from the air” by collecting condensation and storing it, therefore becoming a sort of “water battery.” He says the biggest challenge for plants in arid climates is not the amount of rain, but the consistency: it’s the dry seasons that kill any chance of growth. The Waterboxx proposes to solve that by creating a continuous source of water from occasional rainfalls.

Since he spoke at PopTech 2010, Pieter Hoff’s Groasis Waterboxx has been named the 2010 Best Innovation of the Year by Popular Science. A box that helps trees grow without groundwater or electricity, it has tremendous implications for our world today. Learn how it can bring an end to malnutrition, reduce erosion and fight climate change in PopTech's recent Q&A.

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    Source: VIDEO: Interview with Pieter Hoff - 10/2010
    by Beth Cohen
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    Source: POPTECH INTERVIEW: Pieter Hoff
    by Emily Spivack at PopTech Blog
    When you look into the history of the last 2,000 years, mankind has actually cut down about five billion acres of trees. Then we put sheep and goats on the land that have eaten the last plants on it and we have left those areas to erode. But those areas that had been forests could become forests again. Let's find the once-green areas and re-plant them with trees producing food. In doing so, you can actually solve many problems at one time. You fight erosion. You can help fight against cl
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    Source: Pieter Hoff: Saving the World with Radical Roots and Water Batteries
    by Andy Dayton at PopTech Blog
    Hoff finishes his talk by pointing out his wooden clogs, noting that they were grown from trees. Clearly a proud Dutchman, he presents the many dykes and canals built in his below-sea-level home nation as a testament to the possibility of human will: “All you see in this country is based on free will. But it’s also based on determination. We really wanted to do it.” Hoff clearly really wants to tackle this problem, and he asks: do you?