Relativity Happens

It’s NOT ‘that’ complicated!

Graphical representations (below) comparing iAVs research and commercial demonstration results with UVI’s ‘best’ yields (2010 report) and to the ‘finding’ of a (so-called) “Commercial Aquaponics Survey” [APS] conducted in 2013 out-of John Hopkins University.

These are the only available, even potentially competent, information sets that I/we are aware of … and no/so, I am not ‘picking on’ – aka berating/insulting – anyone.  This is merely intended to illustrate the extent of the differences in findings as reported.   A vast amount of data-mining (‘number crunching’) went into deriving the scaling for these graphics.  Even for me, this Excel exercise was felt mind numbing – especially wrt extracting numerical/range data from the (convoluted and log-log scaled) APS survey report graphics.

Suffice it to say (assert), that the actual values derived are no where near as relevant as is the disparity (degree, extent) of the differences found (calculated and graphically illustrated).  Oh, and the last column(s) on the right is what I project to result as a median case from a professionally managed commercial horticulture enterprise within a responsibly controlled environment.

Vertical (relative) scales are :

^ Fish (tilapia live weight) as kg/year on an unit-volume (e.g. cubic meter) basis. ^

^ Plant yield (fresh weight edible fraction) as kg/year on an unit-area (e.g. square meter) basis.^

above UVI plant yield values shown both with and without inclusion of significant aisle areas.

^ Revenue: calculated as: tilapia at US$3.30/kg live weight plus vegetables at US$6.60/kg fresh weight (avg). ^

Anyone see a pattern here?