Long-range communication with devices that consume almost no power

Re:Long-range communication with devices that consume almost... by stellar678 on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:54PM (#15259716)

A well-designed permaculture system should exceed industrial farming if you are talking about productivity per square meter. The problem is that the amount of labor required is totally unsustainable to feed billions of people.

That's where I see smart technology playing a role. Industrial agriculture involved building farming techniques around the machinery we have available. We "just" need to invert that approach and build smart machinery that enables us to glean food from highly-productive ecosystems.

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Re:Long-range communication with devices that consume almost... by carapace on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:02PM (#15259801)

> the amount of labor required is totally unsustainable to feed billions of people.

I disagree: in a well-designed system there may be a lot of labor in the beginning, but it should fall off within a year or two to a very low level, much lower than conventional farming.

(I admit a lot of "Permies" don't seem to set it up this way.)

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