Whatever happened to geniponics?

Premium, plentiful produce that can be grown virtually anywhere year round was the goal in the 1970s of a team of engineers at General Electric´s Syracuse, N.Y., facility. A variation on hydroponics-growing plants in nutrient solution rather than soil-Geniponics survived a 1980 sale to Control Data Corp. but went down in 1984 before rising electricity prices. However, similar systems live on in controlled-environment research at numerous universities and research centers.