"We are now heating our greenhouses fossil fuel free"
Gebr. Meier AG is one of the largest vegetable producers in the canton of Zurich, with approximately 10ha of greenhouse space. The new heat pump has been in operation since November 2022. "Since then, we have been heating the greenhouses without fossil fuels," Fritz Meier tells BauernZeitung. The heat does not come from the earth but from the still hot, already purified wastewater from the
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