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Kevin Espiritu

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I think you'd have to grow them hydroponically or aeroponically in, like, a pressurized chamber.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

And I think you'd have to use artificial light, because what's the moon's, like, day-night cycle?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Yeah, so then you're in trouble because plants evolve for a 24-hour light cycle, right?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

And so you would need to supplement with light.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

They wouldn't survive for, what, like 14 days of darkness?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I think you just got to bring grow lamps.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I mean, you basically just have to replicate.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

That is such a good question.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I wish I knew this.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

We want to know that, right?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I wish I knew.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I don't know it.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

But I think there is, there's definitely an amount that like on a per person basis.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

You know what else you could do on the moon?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

I just thought about it, is you could go aquaponics.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

So we talked about hydroponics and aeroponics.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

We didn't talk about aquaponics yet, which basically is, because remember, in hydroponics, aeroponics, you don't have the soil, so you don't have the nutrients, right?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Do you need to input those nutrients synthetically?

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

If you go aquaponics though, you have fish in that water medium.

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Homesteading on the Moon with Kevin Espiritu

Those fish excrete ammonia that converts to nitrites and nitrates, which is used as nitrogen by the plant.