DWC?

So i have been reading alot of posts on hydro and im seeing that alot of people are using a DWC system. Now im curious, why is it so popular? How does it work? Why does it work? Do you get even better yields? Does it make your finished product taste like fish? lol

ps: I have only smoked hydro one time as far as i know, and it tasted like fish, so thats where i came up with that haha. Now is there any way to get past that and get the smoke to taste like it would in soil, but using a hydro system?

If your system is flushed it shouldn't have any wierd tastes. here is a link to thread that I just got involved in about DWC theres also a link on this thread to a good DIY dwc setup.

http://boards.cannabis.com/hydroponi...dyi-hydro.html

sweet thanks pete. i checked that link out earlier, but it still doesnt make that much sense to me. Ebb and flow makes perfect sense to me, but it seems that that sort of growing is going old fashioned lol

dude the roots just sit in a bucket of nutrient solution, and are oxygenated by an air stone. period. that's it. really.