Lighting Technologies For Space Farming

dlkf writes: "Space.com has an excellent article discussing current technologies in light sources for growing plants in space. ".. .the high-tech lighting systems here have been used to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, lettuce, spinach, radishes, wheat onion and a whole plethora of herbs such as marjoram and parsley." The main problems for the lighting sources were energy usage, lifetime of light source and heat generation. To address these issues researchers are using both LED and microwave technology." The electrical advantages of LED growlamps may soon become manifest here on Earth, too.

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Hmmmm.....

[Anonymous Coward]

LED...low heat, low power usage, grows plants well....yeah, that could be pretty useful for certain kinds of people....