INFOGRAPHICS
This is a selection of infographics to demonstrate the efficiency of the container in comparison to beef production.
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Cow Vs Container I wanted to offer a simple understanding of the efficiency of the shipping container and in doing so I have compared the production rate to that of beef. This uses the calculations made on the previous pages to visualise this.
0.06 metre/hour
Production
14688 kg/year
PROCESSOR ABILITIES
Left: Infographics I made to represent the calculations I previously did.
• The belt will be running at 0.06 metres per hour. I arrived at this number by calculating the total distance travelled along the belts and dividing it by the time taken for mealworms to mature (3 months). • The processor can run for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week due to the staggered timing of ‘batches’. • The output of the processor is 14,688 kilograms of mealworm per year or 40.2 kilograms per day.
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LAND USED Vs “LAND” FARMED Due to the vertical stacking of the belts, one shipping container is farming a space 16 times the size of it.
14688 kg/year FURTHER CALCULATIONS • As calculated earlier, one shipping container processor can produce 14,688kg of “meat” per year. To equate that in beef, you would need 70 cows.
LAND USE COMPARISON: COW VS CONTAINER
858.2m
The yellow is a representation of the shipping container’s dimensions (12.2m x 2.4m). The black box represents the land required to farm 70 cows (130 acres).
725m
The outer grey box is the land required to grow the feed for the cows for 1 year (182 acres).
WATER USE COMPARISON: COW VS CONTAINER This is a representation of the resources required when producing 1kg of protein.
2 L
1 LITRES
20,000 LITRES
BY GEORGE GOODWILL