(Reuters) - New York Sun Works has opened an environmentally friendly Science Barge to prove its point. Moored on the Hudson River, it grows and harvests lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes in a greenhouse using rain and energy from solar panels and wind turbines and biofuels.
The nonprofit group says that if similar outfits, with hydroponic systems using water and no soil, were installed on the city's 14,000 acres of unshaded rooftop, it could feed as many as 20 million people in New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area year round.
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The nonprofit group says that if similar outfits, with hydroponic systems using water and no soil, were installed on the city's 14,000 acres of unshaded rooftop, it could feed as many as 20 million people in New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area year round.
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