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1. š§ What if I told you mushrooms could change your life? Meet John James Staniszewski, a man whose journey from nightclubs to fungi is nothing short of transformative. šāØ #MushroomMystery @TheFungitarian
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"I'd say the biggest surprise and biggest lesson was that they didn't have enough environmental visibility. A lot of these operations had maybe one temperature humidity sensor hanging in the middle of the room..." - Neda Vaseghi #VerticalFarmPod podpage.com/vertical-farmingā¦
"Our job is to complement what's already there. The projects Gretchen mentioned, every site had something differentā¦ Our job wasn't to go in and just say, rip everything out for this control study and start over..." - Neda Vaseghi #VerticalFarmPod podpage.com/vertical-farmingā¦
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Archimede, an Italian startup building off-grid infrastructure monitoring systems, has closed a ā¬1.5 million Seed round, exceeding its ā¬1 million target. The round was led by Primo Capital SGR, with participation from CDP Venture Capital, Plug and Play, ELIS, 40Jemz, and Irritec. The capital will fund product industrialization, enterprise pilots, and international expansion.
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GranBio has developed biomass technology that converts forestry residues and construction debris into lower-carbon fuels for aviation and trucking. @amazon is funding the project as part of its Climate Pledge commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040. GranBio plans to convert shuttered pulp and paper mills into biorefineries to scale production over the next decade.
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Deutsche Bank is investing in Sustainable Aviation Fuel deployment with the @lufthansa Group, covering roughly 1,600 metric tonnes of SAF. The deal is expected to save around 5,500 metric tonnes of CO2, equivalent to about 520 Frankfurt-London flights on an Airbus A320neo. It builds on an existing partnership that includes Deutsche Bank's Lufthansa Miles & More credit card.
"That's when we built a prototype and we purchased a wine cooler and stripped it out, just used the insulated box with the door and put a couple of thousand dollars worth of controls on it..." - David Sandelman #VerticalFarmPod podpage.com/vertical-farmingā¦
"We are a process system that's designed for the process of getting your proper product to the right water activity for shelf stability versus applying conventional comfort cooling equipment to accomplish it." - David Sandelman #VerticalFarmPod podpage.com/vertical-farmingā¦
9/ The biggest mystery: Why did it take so long? Because agriculture runs on tradition, on gut feel, on āthe way Grandpa did it.ā David Sandelman saw the patternājust like steakhouse chefs, just like master sommeliers. But what if you could make that mastery replicable?
8/ What about shelf life, yield, and consistency? With the new method, no more panicked weekends moving product. No more guessing games. No more flavor roulette. Quality went up, labor went down, profits grew.
6/ Enter the āVapor Pressure Trollā prototype: a wine cooler, repurposed with $2,000 worth of sensors. The test grower scoffedāuntil he tasted the flower. āThis is the best I've ever grown." Mystery deepened.
4/ Hereās the twist: David Sandelman wasnāt just a cheese nerd. He was the inventor of the digital clock thermostat in the late '70sāthe kind that revolutionized every Home Depot in America. He knew ācontrolā like few others.
2/ The culprit? It wasnāt just temperature. It wasnāt just humidity. It was something much subtlerāstable vapor pressure, the hidden force inside those ancient cheese caves. David Sandelman turned detective, tracing the environmental fingerprints of every legendary cheese.
š§µ1/ In a quiet corner of Vermont, a problem was festering among local cheesemakers. Cheese was going bad, ribbons were lost, sleep was lost. But no one knew why. Enter David Sandelman, a restauranteur with a knack for controlā¦ and a taste for solving mysteries.
"Dynamic lighting was something that I was vaguely familiar with. I knew there were a lot of changes in LEDs, and the one thing I knew I didn't want to do is just be a box pusher." - Andrew Volpetti #VerticalFarmPod verticalfarmingpodcast.com/sā¦
"I think a lot of the hype bubble, which did pop, and everyone using that trough of disillusionment graph ad nauseam, I think it was good to see. And I think everyone is appreciating it more." - Andrew Volpetti #VerticalFarmPod verticalfarmingpodcast.com/sā¦