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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by ranguna on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:59AM (#25415230)
Did you even read the article? Water consumption is 250 times less that typical agriculture flat fields.

Also, instead of using 1 meter square to grow 1 meter square of crops, you can use the same space to grow 14x the amount of crops.

Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by ClumsyPilot on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:55AM (#25416066)
Water consumtion is like the most frequently gamed statistics ever. People will count all the water that falls on the field of grass and call it 'water consumtion for raising cattle'.

Without a proper breakdown into blue water, grey water and green water this number is not even worth discussing.

Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by andi999 on Monday December 14, 2020 @05:55AM (#25415616)
As far as I understand, water is not a sparse resource in Denmark (but might be an expensive one)
Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by Manheim on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:35AM (#25415876)
Denmarks only source of fresh water comes from their ground water. They do not have water shortage, but still.
Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by postingawayonhn on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:49AM (#25415962)
Actually more than 14x. Because you control the environment you can provide them with ideal conditions which should speed up the growth cycle.