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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by Teever on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:49PM (#34210085)
Even in a place like Canada where so much food is imported, transportation only adds up to about 12pc of the total energy cost.

I'm not aware of any vertical farm that is 10x as efficient as a regular farm.

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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by boomanaiden154 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:02PM (#34210228)
It depends upon what you're defining efficiency as. In terms of yield per acre, there are estimates that yield per acre can increase by a lot more [1]. I haven't seen anything more efficient energy or cost wise (outside of a couple types of plants, really just microgreens).

[1] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002655117

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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by itsyaboi on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:13PM (#34210356)
Land is cheap. Efficiency in this context is units of product per dollar spent.
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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture by musasabi on Sunday January 01, 2023 @04:21PM (#34211052)
Or, perhaps, carbon emitted. Either way vertical farms are a huge loser for anything outside of niche products.
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