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"Imagine, though, a time when the automation reaches a stage where all weeding and most insect killing can be done mechanically with a robot instead of chemical
by lightedman 9y ago
"Imagine, though, a time when the automation reaches a stage where all weeding and most insect killing can be done mechanically with a robot instead of chemically with pesticides. "
Why bother with that when we already have controlled facilities where pests simply can't gain a foot hold in the first place, making that labor totally unnecessary?
- njarboe 9y agoGreenhouse the entire mid-west? With big enough structures to run tractors? Not sure the ROI is going to work out.
- lightedman 9y agoI don't think you understand how indoor vertical farming works. In 1/8 of an acre you can produce an entire acre of crops, utilizing upwards of 99% less resources. To boot, you don't even need tractors to harvest. You can just pull the entire tray yourself once the NFT solution's drained from the channel. I can take 1/8th of an acre of land, and produce a full acre of wheatgrass in two weeks and harvest it myself with no mechanical methods required in less than a couple of hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZTikdxj8AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZTikdxj8AI I was doing this 20 years ago in high school horticultural science class.