The video footage certainly shows that the system as presented can grow plants and that the output is suitable for feeding to animals, hopefully including the human species. What this is not is a "commercial" food production system despite all of the hype.
It would seem that the design team "who know their job" are no longer with Valcent. These people "disappeared" from the Valcent Management Team as shown on their website sometime in the middle of 2010. I wonder why? So much for the new CEO making sure he has the design team on board.
Whilst the VertiCrop system has brought vertical growing from the dream phase to reality, there remains much to be done before the system will be ready for the real "commercial" growers who will be the ones to meet the massive demand for clean, fresh food to feed the ever rising world population.
In the meantime, other companies have systems already in the commercial world actually producing food crops while Valcent scramble around creating PR hype.
Perhaps this is not a major investment for me at this time but I will continue to retain my stake in this and other similar businesses and see how the vertical food production scene develops. Unquestionably, there will be winners and loosers along the way. Vertical food production is one of the solutions to produce food effectively and efficiently and this will require very serious investment to make it happen. Myself and other like minded people will be a part of this new revolution.
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