title: Toward Future Photovoltaic-Based Agriculture in Sea.
abstract: To meet the challenges of climate change and water shortages, combining solar energy-based seawater desalination technologies with floating agriculture stations in one innovative hybrid system would be worthy of investigation for dry and sunny regions for seawater desalination and crop production within the same platform. Here, I discuss the feasibility of such a 'floating farm' or 'bluehouse' in the sea, by comparing it with the use of terrestrial greenhouses. I also debate the potential advantages and shortcomings of such a system.
authors.affiliation: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. Electronic address: khaled.moustafa@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Khaled
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Moustafa
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D005618:Fresh Water; D009792:Oceans and Seas
keywords: alternative agriculture; bluehouses; climate change; drought; environmental stress; floating farm; floating field; floating rice farms; global change; irrigation with seawater; photovoltaic-based floating farm; sea agriculture; sea farming; seawater desalination