Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by rorykoehler on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:58AM
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If you grow things indoors close to where they will be consumed you can control the environment reducing risk of drought, flooding, pest, pollution, wildfires, storm damage, blight etc etc. You also reduce the supply chain complexities around collection, transport and storage (inert gas storage etc). There are many other considerations apart from energy and when energy becomes cheap enough the game will turn in favour of growing in urban areas.
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Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by nradov on Friday July 06, 2018 @05:35AM
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None of those issues are actually serious problems for agriculture in most areas most of the time. And energy will never be cheap enough in our lifetimes to change the calculation significantly.
Re:Is Vertical Farming Really the Future of Agriculture?
by throwaway2048 on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:37AM
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you can also enclose fields as they exist if those are somehow significant problems. There is still absolutely zero need to build vertical