An advanced indoor farm of sorts, unlike anything I’ve ever seen, is housed in a massive warehouse beneath Iceland’s biggest geothermal power plant.
As a futuristic crop of microalgae blooms, cylindrical columns of water bubble out and lighted panels buzz under an odd pink-purple illumination.
Here, Vaxa Technologies of Iceland has created a system that uses energy and other resources from the neighboring power station to grow these microscopic aquatic creatures.
As he shows me around the futuristic plant, general manager Kristinn Haflidason adds, “It’s a new way of thinking about food production.”
Humans have eaten seaweed, often referred to as macroalgae, for a large portion of our history.
