One question about this video— at 1:46 the speaker says, "fish provide all the nutrients [for] our vegetables, which means we don't have to add anything artificial." Is this accurate? My impression was that aquaponics mitigates but does not completely eliminate the need for industrial fertilizers/nutrient solution additives, in addition to replacing what's removed when fish or vegetables are eaten:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGmJETrqzN4&t=1m46s
Another question— with aquaponics, how do you incorporate food waste into the circularity? Do you feed it to the fish, extract nutrients via an external physical/chemical process, or just dump it in the water reservoir and let it decompose?
We see that a very large portion can be done with circular biological systems. We have been working to incorporate food waste via insects. We take allowed food waste and feed insect larvae. There are several teams in Sweden working on this together, with some government support.
I haven't seen the "fermented plant juice" before, but the principle is the same, let bacteria work on it.
This doesn’t need to stop at the hydroponics system. There are plenty of opportunities to create better nutrient loops in our food production system.
We have been working on this for nearly five years. We currently participate in a project which has two dozen companies participating in closing this nutrient loops and create better and more efficient food production.