By 2050 it’s estimated there’ll be over 6.5 billion people living in urban spaces, and vertical farming could play a growing role in feeding them. The farms use far less space, water, and transport than traditional methods of farming, although their power consumption is a constant challenge. Persis Love travels to Germany and the UK to explore the sector’s developing technologies and business models.
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Thank you very much, madam. I needed the information. 1x
Germany is always at the forefront of technology and future, good for them and for us!
Will the UK be doing this?
None of that is actually food that can sustain human life. Food is corn, rice, wheat, soybeans, potatoes… to actually feed people with vertical farming requires a whole lot more research and a whole lot more energy.
While I'm here, there is no way aeroponics improves production by 70% over traditional hydroponic methods. Even 7% would be a stretch.
This is coming from a place of extreme ignorance about agriculture lol. But could huge vertical glass structures, in effect taller green houses, spaced out in rural or outside urban areas help defray some of the energy costs of vertical farming by allowing the energy of the sun back into the equation?
I did the math a few years ago and at the time you needed really cheap electricity to run the shipping container farms that were all the rage. Our need really high premiums on the produce
Chasing grants that is were the money is. This seems like the emperors new clothes
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You are right but it is just vegetables, salad. What about grain and high calorie food.
interesting
I think this development will be fantastic for humanity. It's great to see its progress 🙂
The UK has an amazing opportunity to follow this sort of thing