Tropenhaus Frutigen, the Glossary
The Tropenhaus (Tropic House) in Frutigen, Switzerland, is a commercial project using geothermal energy from hot water flowing out of the Lötschberg base tunnel for the production of exotic fruit, sturgeon meat, and caviar in a tropical greenhouse in the Swiss alps.[1]
Table of Contents
26 relations: Banana, Berner Zeitung, Canton of Bern, Caviar, Der Bund, Fish farming, Fishing industry in Switzerland, Frutigen, Frutigen railway station, Geothermal energy, Greenhouse, Guava, Introduced species, Kander (Switzerland), Lötschberg Base Tunnel, Mango, Papaya, Privately held company, Salmo trutta fario, Sturgeon, SWI swissinfo, Swiss Alps, Swiss franc, Switzerland, Tages-Anzeiger, USA Today.
- Fish farming
- Food and drink companies of Switzerland
- Greenhouses
- Privately held companies of Switzerland
Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
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Berner Zeitung
Berner Zeitung (literally: "Journal of Bern"), also branded as BZ, is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper, published by Tamedia in Bern.
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Canton of Bern
The canton of Bern, or Berne (Kanton Bern; canton de Berne; Chantun Berna; Canton Berna), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
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Caviar
Caviar (also known as caviare, originally from the egg-bearing) is a food consisting of salt-cured roe of the family Acipenseridae.
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Der Bund
Der Bund (English: The Union) is a Swiss German-language daily newspaper published in Bern.
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Fish farming
Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds.
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Fishing industry in Switzerland
Landlocked Switzerland supports a small commercial fishing industry in its many large lakes.
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Frutigen
Frutigen is a municipality in the Bernese Oberland in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
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Frutigen railway station
Frutigen is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Bern and municipality of Frutigen.
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Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the Earth's crust.
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Greenhouse
A greenhouse is a special structure that is designed to regulate the temperature and humidity of the environment inside. Tropenhaus Frutigen and greenhouse are greenhouses.
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Guava
Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Kander (Switzerland)
The Kander is a river in Switzerland.
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Lötschberg Base Tunnel
The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (LBT) is a railway base tunnel on the BLS AG's Lötschberg line cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland some below the existing Lötschberg Tunnel.
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Mango
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica.
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Papaya
The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the plant species Carica papaya, one of the 21 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae, and also the name of its fruit.
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Privately held company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets.
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Salmo trutta fario
Salmo trutta fario, sometimes called the river trout, is a river-dwelling freshwater predatory fish from the genus Salmo of the family Salmonidae.
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Sturgeon
Sturgeon (from Old English styrġa ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *str̥(Hx)yón-) is the common name for the 28 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.
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SWI swissinfo
SWI swissinfo.ch is a Swiss multilingual international news and information company based in Bern.
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Swiss Alps
The Alpine region of Switzerland, conventionally referred to as the Swiss Alps, represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.
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Swiss franc
The Swiss franc, or simply the franc (Swiss German; franc; franco; franc), is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Tages-Anzeiger
Tages-Anzeiger, also abbreviated Tagi or TA, is a Swiss German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, Switzerland.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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See also
Fish farming
- AquAdvantage salmon
- Aquaculture Research and Development Centre, Kajjansi
- Aquaculture of catfish
- Aquaculture of salmonids
- Aquaculture of tilapia
- Canadian Atlantic Cod
- Catla
- Ceratothoa oestroides
- Commercial fish feed
- Enteric redmouth disease
- Fish farming
- Fish hatchery
- Fish meal
- Fish pond
- Fisheries Research and Training Institute
- James Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland
- Japanese eel
- Java barb
- Lochmuir
- Mrigal carp
- Norwegian Aquaculture Center
- Rice-fish system
- Skretting
- Spawning bed
- Tailwater
- Tropenhaus Frutigen
- Tuna penning
- Valliculture
Food and drink companies of Switzerland
- Aryzta
- Barry Callebaut
- Bell Food Group
- Bunge Global
- Cenovis
- Cereal Partners Worldwide
- Coffee World
- Confiserie Sprüngli
- Delica (enterprise)
- ECOM Agroindustrial
- Firmenich
- Gategroup
- Giger Bar
- Givaudan
- Hero Group
- Hipp Holding
- Jakob's Basler Leckerly
- Läckerli Huus
- Max Felchlin
- Midor
- Mirai Foods
- Nestlé
- Ricola
- Schweizer Getraenke AG, Obermeilen
- Swissport
- Tetra Laval
- Thomy
- Tropenhaus Frutigen
- United Coffee
- Wander AG
Greenhouses
- Ashgabat Botanical Garden
- Bioshelter
- Cold frame
- Conservatory (greenhouse)
- Estufa Fria
- Gardens by the Bay
- Greenhouse
- Haga trädgård
- IBTS Greenhouse
- Lal Bagh
- Meise Botanic Garden
- Orangeries
- Palm house
- Palmenhaus (Burggarten)
- Palmenhaus Schönbrunn
- Phytotron
- Pineapple pit
- Polytunnel
- Royal Greenhouses of Laeken
- Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
- Seawater greenhouse
- Solardome
- Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich
- The Green Planet, Dubai
- Tropenhaus Frutigen
- Villa Fiorita, Brugherio
- Wüstenhaus Schönbrunn
- Walipini
- Wardian case
Privately held companies of Switzerland
- Alchimie Forever
- Allseas
- Arcadia Watches
- Bamix
- Bianchet
- Bleiker
- Bolex
- Bovet Fleurier
- Brügger & Thomet
- Chopard
- Claro fair trade
- Confiserie Sprüngli
- David and Simon Reuben
- ETA SA
- EU Business School
- Egon Zehnder
- Era Watch Company
- Fortis (Swiss watchmaker)
- Geneva Business School
- GetYourGuide
- Infront Sports & Media
- Interactive Energy
- Jean Perret
- KPMG
- Kistler Group
- Louis Erard
- Manufacture Modules Technologies
- Manufacture Royale
- MiGFlug
- Morini (manufacturer)
- Motorex
- Parmigiani Fleurier
- Purnell (company)
- ROSEN Group
- Raidix
- Resun
- Roamer of Switzerland
- Rolex
- SLZ Group
- Schwarz Etienne
- Swiss UAV
- Trisa
- Tropenhaus Frutigen
- UMS Skeldar
- Veeam
- Vitra (furniture)
- Wire Swiss