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Ok, as of about 30 mins ago....

The largest commercial integrated aquaculture in the Southern Hemisphere... probably the world... has been formally announced....

The 100 tonne RAS, and 4 million plant/hectare production system is located at Cobbity on the outskirts of Sydney

The operation ahs been branded as "Blue Farms".... and is the fruition of 5 years work by the UES group... and was designed by three of Australias leading aquaculture designers.

It features the most sophisticated, automated technologies from around the world, and a moving hydroponic subsystem which is an Australian innovation.. along with other innovative Australian developed processess.

You can see pics and material here... http://www.bluesmartfarms.com/freshfood/

And the attached PDF file... in zipped "rar" format...

This is stage one of a three stage development.... and is a working commercial farm....

For reasons of bio-security, IP protection... and just sheer workload... the facility is unlikely to be open for public tour.... so don't bomabrd them with emails requesting a look though...

If they change their position on the matter at a later date... I'm sure they'll make an announcement accordingly...

YAY the best birthday news I've ever recieved!! I've been hoping someone would do something like this sooooooon.
Fabulous! Awesome! Stunning!

It isn't very big is it....

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Nah... not really...



By the way... one the pipes.... the bloke is sitting on... is one of the fish tank standpipe outlet pipes...

Man I would love to get a look at that place. The sheer scale just makes me happy. Rup you tell them we want tours!

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I don't think I'd be able to "tell" them anything...

yeh, but it's a start... I mean there's a first for everything... and to get started on a mega system like that... it will get bigger once they get better at it and then they can study and provide us with rock solid evidence!!!

it's a real start......

grumble grumble grumble...

Rupe had to disguise himself as a construction worker just to get that insider photo you see above

Na That photo is from Earthan Group website and the fella to the left is Paul Van der Werf.

Proper credit is due for the photo. Thanks Porter.

It's cool to imagine Rupe on an under cover mission though

Yes, that's Paul... and it was published on his website....

I uploaded off my hard drive....

Awesome stuff. Hope they make it more than a year

There's a half truth in that....

Paul is one of the few AP/RAS professionals we have roaming around AP sites - credit should have been attributed in the first post for what he is involved with in BlueFarms.

It's a stunning achievement and confirmation of the tech we are trying to grasp, develop and promote with our puny backyard systems - to see someone taking it mainstream so convincingly is amazing - to post it without proper attribution is not.