In September 2014 the Centre for Urban Agriculture held an international conference on Vertical Farming and Urban Agriculture. As part of the conference Dick…
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http://www.verticalfarm.com By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to …
How about costs, has anyone calculated it? Is it competitive vs traditional
farming??
minecraft?
I saw a video on kickstarter a couple years ago that had something along
the line of this concept. From what I remember it was around the idea of
automated farming in ‘cheep’ ‘convent’ ‘confided’ settings. Now this with
the concepts of vertical farming, and the ideas of “The Venus Project” is
something quite beautiful. A world I want to work towards and live in.?
there should be tax incentives for this otherwise it will be hard to
compete?
Another video of Dr. Despommier.?
#Verticalfarming pioneer #dickson #despommier says, “By the year 2050,
nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying
the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human
population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An
estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented
by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them,
if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today.”
Watch him speak on vertical farming and #hydroponics ! The Vertical Farm?
@flexyco Lol, just because you lost.
Use vacant buildings.
@ApostateAbe While your point on the amount of light a vertical farm could
collect from sunlight is correct, aren’t you forgetting that we can produce
artificial light which mimics sunlight. In that case we can reduce the
vertical farm to a simple equation, energy = food. Put electricity in for
powering the lights (and anything else) and get food out. You would still
probably save energy overall due to the concentrated nature of the building
reducing transport and other costs.
genius Arab countries need farming methods like that
@SupremeCommander360 The production of metal that can support
skyscraper-sized farms like he is proposing (hint: you’ll need steel) has a
substantial environmental impact. We’re talking strip-mining for the
metals, chemical treatments, foundries, and the logistics to ship the
material to the farm site. Once something like this is constructed it might
be sustainable, but the cost of constructing it isn’t. And like I said,
it’s MUCH more labor-intensive. You can’t mass harvest vertical farms.
Awesome but not practical. With the drawings alone it is big failure –
plastics, concrete, processed wood and steel. Make the best dreams out from
everyone’s home backyard, simple but not costly. Agriculture is not a blue
collar dream, we still got bare lands to be nurtured by common sense with
nature.
@plasmavore The thing is that the fact that they look really nice is really
their only appeal. They are not practical in the least. They do not have
the geometry to capture enough sunlight and they would inhabit valuable
building space in cities.
Chris Morris came up with this idea in the 90s as a joke on his satire show
Brasseye. Now it’s being discussed as something real. Wow.
@hodoprime – the “free market” got us into this shit. I can’t believe
people are still buying that crap.
@vlogbrothers unfortunately illinois soil does not exist overseas or any
place besides illinois, and rich soil in general is confined to a few areas
around the world, so it becomes hard for those places without the rich soil
to grow decent produce. the buildings don’t have to be skyscrapers anyways,
a standard office building (not an office building in new york or any other
large city) but one in a medium sized city should be able to handle a
vertical farm.
@SBFloppie What tech? it’s not exactly that hard to stack greenhouses onto
of each other. No need for any serious infrastructure, just use light
weight materials like wood/aluminum and lots of glass. The structure
doesn’t necessarily have to be that tall, as long as it’s contained it will
be able to produce crops at a higher efficiency than traditional farming,
with the benefit of no runoff and less land being used.
insted of doing all this complex ass stuff to support the rising number of
people why dont we just sterilize a good chunk of earth? just because you
can have kids doesnt mean you should. back when people were few in the
bible it was ok but now theres to many of us… so fuck it.
@yesiamanalien Some use low power led lights. Also a lot of these buildings
are designed with solar and wind power sources, they build them to be as
efficient as possible. I’m sure to provide nutrients they have an extremely
well thought out system, you’d just have to ask an expert. Hydroponics are
the way, I have a system in my own home. And if the Venus project came into
play there would be no need for greed at all, unfortunately these greedy
fucks are gonna be around till the end.
Question: how is this going to affect the rural agricultural communities
that are currently providing this country’s food and the small family
farmers that are already struggling due to market bullys like Monsanto?
sounds great ideally, but corporate farming can’t end well.
Paraphrase from Alternet.org’s article, “Why Planting Farms in Skyscrapers
Won’t Solve Our Food Problems” For obvious reasons, no one has ever
proposed stacking solar panels one above the other. For the same reasons,
crop fields cannot be layered one above the other without providing a
substitute for the sunlight. Even with all-glass walls, the amount of light
reaching plants on all of a high-rise would fall far short of what is
needed.
@holdingoutformyhero New Movie coming soon called “40 Point Plan”. A Save
the World film showing how Food Sky Towers will SIGNIFICANTLY help these
struggling farmers you refer to, along with eliminating billion dollar crop
failures and cross contamination with livestock causing people to die. What
if a company was the exact opposite of Monsanto and actually gave 33% off
all profits to “We the People” who are struggling. What if Food Sky Towers
they build sole purpose was to eliminate hunger…?
a m a z i n g ! ! ! ! ! s o c o o l ! ! !
@richzap2 Any country that can afford to build vertical farms and produce
artificial sunlight to sustain them can also sustainably import the food
from elsewhere for much cheaper. When there is a poor and dense population
on the Moon with no soil, then maybe vertical farms will be a good idea.
The economics and physics can be modeled with feasibility studies funded by
interested investors, which probably explains why not one vertical farm has
ever been built.
its a good idea but anything but trees who need the wind to strengten them.