Dive Brief:

• John Edel, a Chicago-based entrepreneur, has created an anaerobic digester that can power lights needed to grow food as part of an indoor vertical farm experiment.
• The digester uses organic waste to form biogas, which is converted to generate the electricity. Food is then grown under a lighting system.
• Edel says that the finished project will be capable of using 27 tons of food scraps daily.

Dive Insight:

The building where Edel is perfecting his system was previously used as a warehouse, and measures 93,500. He expects to open the facility to non-profits, educational institutions and other for-profit businesses.