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A comment on Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take over the world (2018).

Re:Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take ove... by dandare on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:57AM (#19359907)
How about the CO2 footprint of the building, ventilation systems, lamps, cameras, sensors, electronics etc?
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Re:Roquette Science: How computerized arugula farms take ove... by jillesvangurp on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:02PM (#19361183)
Not 0 of course but you can amortize a lot of that over a lot of time and weigh it against e.g. transportation cost, the cost of intensively farmed soil not capturing any carbon because it is over fertilized, compacted, and sprayed with poison, the cost of producing fertilizer, poison, and fuel needed for operating the machines, etc. There are two sides to this coin.
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