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A few things that make it less good value: - Its not new tech, its greenhouses with indoor lighting - Its an enclosed large monoculture of plants, which means
by KaiserPro 9y ago
A few things that make it less good value:
- Its not new tech, its greenhouses with indoor lighting
- Its an enclosed large monoculture of plants, which means you are prone to pest and fungus. [see note]
- It has a very large electricity demand (heat and electricity)
- It is labour intensive.
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growing plants in the city is difficult, mainly because the food triangle is so distorted. In central london there are loads of aphids from the lime trees, and lots of powder mildew.
Now considering these setups are aimed at green leafy rapid growth plants, you're going to be spending lots of importing ladybirds. (not much you can do about powder mildew though)
- posterboy 9y agoI've been led to believe you'd be best served with a clean room setup of some level, clean clothes and all. edit: anyway, within the city is a ridiculous proposal at scale, if housing is scarce already. Except for huge price differentials as from cannabis.
- KaiserPro 9y agoThe clean room would explain the cost. if the yield is really 500x traditional farms, that explains why its still more expensive than "organic" produce
- zkar 9y agoAdd the tasteless flavorless variety the indoor garden produce. All those shiny indoor grown roma tomatoes imported from Canada so bland and flavorless in taste.