The kitchen which grows its own food

amazing! i want one.

Instead of buying one and spending a few thousand dollars I think I'll just use the dirt in my backyard.

want it.

The kitchen that grows its own food*

looks pretty cool!

Now just to teach it how to cook!

I like it

Obviously a great idea and well deserved plaudits to Phillips if they actually bring a sensible and affordable aqua-grow unit to the domestic market.
I couldn't find any evidence of its actual production yet on its website, but please let me know if you find that so. My first one of these decades ago was 16'x 20', and not nearly as sophisticated. (However, we did grow quite edible tilapia and clean the recycled water with redwood slats and oyster shells.)
This prompts me to add project # 1001 to my "to do"list. Thank you, hpseaton, for this posting.

Why dont we save our worlds ecosystem, but this tank makes perfect sense!

I would rather have a greenhouse attached to my house so I could grow food with real sunlight as nature intended.

I dig this invention makes me think there are a lot of ways to rethink our consumption

These kinds of tanks integrating aquaculture are already being made in homes throughout the world. It may lack the aesthetic of the one pictured, but urban aquaculture is no longer a dream. Tilapia CAN be grown in a credible design, but it would require larger tanks...not as large as you may think though, as mentioned above. this is simply an attempt by Phillips to make a buck off the environmental fads people in America are so hard-on about these days. Do your research people and DIY.

If you really want to make it more efficient, there are ways to make the lights work...solar anyone?

Nice try, Phillips.

my guess is an Energy company will purchase all patents and rights so the public will never see this product on the market....

Well it is a start. I hope to see something in my next house that would mimic this. I could see a small indoor farm for a small family.

While its a cool idea in theory, unless you made a gigantic one the size of a basement, a family of 4 would pretty much utilize all the product in one maybe 2 meals. So unless it grows plants and food hyper fast, it wouldnt actually do much good other than provide a few meals a year.

That really doesn't look wide enough to grow any sort of edible fish. You might be able to keep crawfish in there...

What kind of fish does it grow? Tilapia would be good, but how could something that small grow anything but goldfish?

It is too bad it requires electricity to run. Perhaps they could make it pedal powered to solve the obesity problem too.