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Re:Vertical farming does not save space by _carbyau_ on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:03PM (#26187075)
My understanding was that you put the solar in the desert, so that you can put the vertical farm somewhere else where soil, water, transport logistics is easier.

So the question is whether a greenhouse/farm in the desert is easier than solar in the desert connected through grid to vertical farm somewhere else.

I have no data. My guess is the ongoing logistics of piping electricity out of the desert is easier than fertiliser into the desert and produce out to where people live.

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Re:Vertical farming does not save space by hultner on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:57PM (#26187581)
It is, I’ve worked on large scale projects to enable farming in deserts using underground vertical farms.
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Re:Vertical farming does not save space by jelliclesfarm on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:23AM (#26192865)
Where can I learn more about these underground vertical farms in the deserts?
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Re:Vertical farming does not save space by hultner on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#26202183)
Hmmm, that’s a good question, I couldn’t find much information publicly available and I can of course not disclose internal. But there’s a little in this annual report from 2015. There’s an rudimentary illustration on the second page. Unfortunately it doesn’t include many of the details which I found most impressive, we had just started the project in 2015, so that might be why.

https://assets-global.website-files.com/5ef8b3d80f5e290ff335...

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