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Would solar farms help mitigate the cost of running these vertical farms in any meaningful way?
by Bootwizard 7y ago
Would solar farms help mitigate the cost of running these vertical farms in any meaningful way?
- Retric 7y agoUsing current tech, you end up using more land gathering solar power as you gain back by going vertical. On top of that you need to pay for incredible amounts of solar panels.
- bluGill 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic_efficiency In theory we can get a lot of efficiency by converting wavelengths plants cannot use wavelengths plants can use. However after accounting for all the system losses it is really hard to make up the difference. This assumes too that you use the best available solar panels, which are generally only in labs, real world solar installations are generally less efficient (just the chlorophyll vs solar cell number). Most of the losses in photosynthesis still exist either way as well.