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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by Cthulhu_ on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:56AM (#25415204)
Same, but at the same time, it's preparing for a future where the borders and international shipping may be impossible, where overpopulation means we can no longer use land for farming, and where farmland becomes unusable or at least unpredictable due to climate change. Plus something about colonizing space. It's far future and dystopian, but not improbable.

Anyway, it's not the most efficient way to grow food; I live in a country where they have tons of greenhouses. Also pretty energy intensive, but yields are great and predictable, meaning that despite being one of the smallest countries of the world, we're the second largest agricultural exporter in the world. Basically we do a lot with what we have. Which is also (for me) a bit unexpected given that most of the areas I've lived in and driven through is grass for cattle.

Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by bumbada on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:06AM (#25415691)
It is not far future and it is not dystopian.

Anyone that have lived in China or India knows how much people those places have.

There is already a tremendous pressure from the food those countries demand on the world. Chinese fishing fleet just obliterates anywhere they go, and they are destroying the Amazon forest in Brazil and Argentina with soya(proteins for pigs) plantations and equatorial jungles for Palm Oil.

Anything is inefficient at first, including agriculture itself. Wheat and corn grains were super small at first. At first, solar panels did cost hundreds of times more than what it does today.

Technology will improve and the future will be better.

Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by rat87 on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:21AM (#25415783)
> Anyone that have lived in China or India knows how much people those places have.

Both India's and China's population is expected to fall significantly, It's Nigeria where large growth is still expected.

The pressure isn't necessarily so much from the people but from the appetite and trends and increase in spending money.

Unless you invent really good fake pork and fake fish made of vegetable protein you can grow in vertical farms that won't necessarily help