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Solar Urban Farming Implements Impactful Biosolar Approach with Next-Gen Solar Greenhouses

Growing season is 24 -7/365 in our climate-controlled roof top greenhouses powered by solar arrays, and with dual-benefit: storing power during the day for use at night, and utilizing excess power to sell back to communities as an energy source.”

Yahoo Finance
Aug 13, 2020

Excerpt:

Green Stream Holdings Inc. (OTC PINK:GSFI) (http://www.GreenRainSolar.com ), an emerging leader in the solar utility and finance space, is pleased to announce that it is entering the rapidly growing urban gardening sector with solar greenhouses dedicated primarily to rooftop farming.

Roofs with vegetation are widely believed to extend roof life, conserve energy, and reduce stormwater runoff and air pollution; new studies show they can also boost the performance of solar panels. Plants reduce a roof’s contribution to the urban heat-island effect by lowering the surrounding air temperature through evaporation; this cooling can also make photovoltaic panels perform more efficiently. Plants also reduce airborne pollutants and dust particles, allowing the panels to absorb more sunlight.

GSFI CEO Madeline Cammarata comments, “In the last few years, rooftop gardening has been growing exponentially. The opportunity and necessity to grow crops on rooftops and inside tall building allows for an efficient use of the limited space found in cities and we have the infrastructure in place to begin cultivating these structures alongside and even within a select group of our current projects.”

She continues, “We are confident that a new generation of organic super-sized food products grown locally under strict fully climatized conditions, will provide the next generation of urban cuisine, not to mention a supply source for community minded stores like Whole Foods, Target and local markets.”

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