Going deep inside the cedar forest in British Columbia, Dan Sutton is developing what he believes will be the most energy efficient, high-technology greenhouse for cultivating marijuana. Spurred by the explosive market for medicinal marijuana, Dan Sutton and a team of biologist and engineers have experimented for about 3 years with digital sensors, lighting arrays, software program and ventilators to design a greenhouse setup with the lowest energy costs and the highest crop yield.
“We said, ‘Let’s assume everything that’s ever been done in cannabis cultivation is wrong, and we have to build from the ground up,’” stated Sutton, the managing director of Tantalus Labs in Vancouver. “We have this broad realm of science that no one has been able to previously explore.”
The startup is among an expanding number of companies in North America designing new products and systems specifically catered for the growing of marijuana, a finicky crop that needs a precise balance of light, water and moisture to grow. However these marijuana ventures are not exactly reinventing the wheel greenhouse technologies have been around for more than 10 years they are injecting the kinds of funding and brainpower into the field of industrial agriculture that plainly was not there 10 years ago.
They are also adding a new level of urgency. With more countries and the U.S. states softening their policies on both recreational and medical use of cannabis, companies are rushing to become industry leaders in data mining software, ultra-efficient lighting and water sipping irrigation systems.
“Cannabis is spurring on an ag-tech revolution,” stated Troy Dayton, CEO of ArcView Group. “This is a boom born entirely out of ending repressive laws. The market is already there, it’s just moving from the shadows into the light. That’s why you’re seeing this incredible growth and why so many people see it as a once-in-a-lifetime [business] opportunity.”
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