Actually looking at the costs sunk in, work, electricity and
water....I think it's cheaper to buy vegetables from the market
Then again, it is an interesting hobby to pursue
This 'hobby' of mine have a goal of being self sustainable in
food however you are right about the cost of electricity. My HDB
window does not allow too much electricity to be generated via
solar panels...hence still requires $ to up keep the utilities
bill.
What I do is to learn the skills so that one day I may need to
set this up in a bigger scale to self sustain our selves.
Do you know where our vegetables comes from? How much oil
required to deliver the food to us? The oil based pesticides used
in the farms far away? The amount oil used by heavy machinery that
plough, seed, water, harvest, pack, chilled & preserve the
vegetables and ship to us?
Do you know oil is about to peak in production in the global
scale and not many people can get oil cheaply or even able to buy
it anymore?
Simply said...Non-Opec countries oil production had peaked in
2004...and OPEC countries is doing artificial oil supply cut this
coming 15 March 2009...
Yes, I blog about energy crisis at sgenergycrisis.com and other
crisis but I do want to survive...so my project is a way to set a
goal to help others think the same hence there won't be 1000000
jobless & hungry locals zombiefied outside in the streets
rioting, protesting, robbing, killing for a job or some vegetables
on the table.
Stay alert for more of my DIY projects because you might just
need it.
