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I think Las Vegas would be a great place for vertical farming. Heavy local demand, constrained water usage, cheap power, high ambient temperature. What's not
by narrator 10y ago
I think Las Vegas would be a great place for vertical farming. Heavy local demand, constrained water usage, cheap power, high ambient temperature. What's not to like?
- grogenaut 10y agoExcept this: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060002129 http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060002129 wouldn't make long term plans on hoover dam.
- nl 10y agoAgain(!) the investment needed.
- walrus01 10y agoThe cost of building large 5+ floor concrete structures that can take significant floor loading in kilograms per square meter? Building vertical anything isn't cheap, this is why you see massive cloud scale datacenters built into "shell" warehouse buildings that are tilt-up concrete walls, the whole thing 1 story high sitting on a concrete slab. Usually in some places where land is cheap in $/square meter. Example: Datacenters in The Dalles, OR.