STEENBERGEN, The Netherlands, Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --
Groasis Waterboxx, winner of Popular Science Magazine's "Best of What's New" 2010 swept all 11 categories for the best invention, leaving behind other fantastic inventions, such as the Apple iPad, Porsche 918 Spyder Green Supercar, Panasonic Viera TV, Intel Wireless display and 117 others for the Grand Prize.
Pieter Hoff, inventor of the Groasis Waterboxx, is happy with his innovation, as it is pivotal to the success of his mission. In 2050, the world's population will grow to around 10 billion. With 6.5 billion people currently inhabiting the earth, and 900 million already suffering from hunger, the immensity of the future crisis is clear. Hoff's dream is to reforest 2 billion hectares of land that has been deforested by mankind over the last 2,000 years.
He explains: "The cutting of trees for lumber and animal grazing and mining has destroyed and eroded an area the size of Canada. If this area was small enough to cut, it is also small enough to replant."
Pieter Hoff aspires to replenish the eroded area with food-producing trees, and the Groasis waterboxx makes it possible to plant trees, bushes and vegetables in otherwise problematic eroded, arid and rocky soil. The production of food from an additional 2 billion hectares of trees also helps solve the climate problem.
Hoff continues: "The Treesolution is simple. If we unbind more CO2 atoms from the air with trees than we put in the air through fossil fuels, then the climate problem is solved. Mankind produces annually 8,4 billion tons of CO2 through using fossil fuels. One hectare of trees unbinds an average 5 tons of CO2 molecules in harmless C and O atoms. The C atoms are fixed in wood and the O atoms are put in the air. So if we plant 2 billion extra hectares of trees producing food, then these trees unbind 10 billion extra tons of CO2. That's more than we pollute."
While solving the food problem, then, the Groasis Waterboxx combats the climate problem , at no cost. Pieter Hoff expects that farmers, governments and investors will start replanting eroded areas in 2011. The Groasis Waterboxx was tested in the Sahara desert between 2006 and 2009 and on more than 30 places worldwide in 2010, with good results. The box is deliverable from January 2011.
Website: http://www.groasis.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Groasiswaterboxx
Popular Science 'Invention of the Year'
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