Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by clay_the_ripper on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:54PM
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While I could believe that this is true, I would love to see some evidence to back up this claim. You would also need to account for the entirety of emissions, including, as a previous commenter said, other emissions involved in the supply chain.
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Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by conception on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:29AM
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It's not true sadly. http://www.worldshipping.org/industry-issues/environment/air...
If you go with a to of lamb for simplicity thats 10g/km. It's about 10km so 100,000g. The truck is like, let's go on the high end 100g/km and what, 100km? That's still only 10kg of co2. Unless of course I'm missing something.
Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by extrapickles on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:31AM
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The chart assumes you are moving 1 ton of material, so its 20kg of co2 to ship 1 ton of lamb 100km.
Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by roel_v on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:12AM
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The answer is, as usual, 'it depends'. There are journals full of people modeling things like this. What is sure though, is that the claim 'local is always better' is not true. But it's easy to attack absolutes because they're almost always wrong.