Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots

Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by brnt on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:18AM (#25417776)

> I recall another study showing that it was more carbon efficient buying frozen mutton from New Zealand in London than it was buying local fresh mutton.

I wouldn't mind seeing that calculation!

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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by bryanlarsen on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:23AM (#25417838)

> The research showed that for each tonne of NZ lamb produced and imported, 688kg of CO2 is emitted. When compared to the 2849.1kg of CO2 emitted in UK production, the most sustainable lamb would appear to be that from NZ.

https://www.ecoandbeyond.co/articles/british-new-zealand-lam...

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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by brnt on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:38AM (#25418016)

Thanks! See table 5: https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10182...

NZ-UK Transport does take about 20% of the energy budget, so it's not insignificant, but farming lamb is just a lot less energy intensive in NZ.

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