Nano Labs Corp. announced high-tech advance relating to greenhouse (GH) farming and agriculture, this being automated technology to control the dynamics of GH CO(2) for improved crop yields, reduced energy consumption, and decreased environmental hazards. Designed to replace conventional manual control systems, the new technology holds promise to increase efficiencies in GH CO(2) use by 20%, improve crop yields by up to 25%, and reduce energy consumption by up to 20%.

The advantages include computer control of the CO(2) in the greenhouses (instead of an empirical, manual control, which is the normally used), more efficient use of CO(2) (up to 20%), less energy consumption depending on size, type of crop, etc., (where preliminary tests indicated savings up to 20 and 30%), and more efficiency of the crop yield (depending on the plant, preliminary tests indicate up to 25%). The company is currently in discussions with an agriculture co-op to begin pilot facility testing in the first quarter of 2013.