2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm

Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by endominus on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:56AM (#25557070)

Yes? The high cost being the result of overregulation and overzealous safety standards points to a trivial (in terms of engineering difficulty, not political difficulty) solution to reduce those costs, and nuclear power is region-agnostic, unlike solar, wind or hydroelectric. It can be utilized, along with vertical indoor farming, in areas of otherwise marginal utility.

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Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by adrianN on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:01AM (#25557089)

I doubt you'll be able to muster the political will to deregulate nuclear and design and build a sufficient number of cheap nuclear plants before renewables will have made the whole thing obsolete.

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Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by endominus on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:20AM (#25557174)

I agree with the first part of your comment, though not the second. From 2000-2013, the share of global energy produced by renewables has only grown by 0.8%[0]. (Fun fact; when Germany started their nuclear phase out in 2011, they replaced the mothballed nuclear plants with new coal power plants, not renewables). There's frankly not enough time to rely on the growth of renewables; it looks like we're stuck with fossil fuels until the bitter end.

Edit: Got the dates wrong.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

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Re:2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 72... by adrianN on Monday December 28, 2020 @10:35AM (#25559960)

Linear expolation is hopefully not the right model for the growth of renewables. The price has come down a lot lately.

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