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> Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth. How exactly is food grown from autonomous
by wuunderbar 7y ago
> Our mission is to grow safer, healthier food by deploying fully autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth.
How exactly is food grown from autonomous greenhouses than traditional greenhouses safer and healthier? Or, alternatively, how is it safer and healthier if it is grown right outside of the cities in which in supply?
- ac29 7y agoPresumably the health/safety improvement in high-tech greenhouses is that you can eliminate the need for pesticides and herbicides.
- elasticventures 7y agodifferent set of problems; equipment failures and mold's & fungus become bigger problems. it's not a closed loop since we need fresh co2 to trigger photosynthesis and nothing is 100% failure proof.
- thinkpad20 7y agoSeems like there's plenty of CO2 to go around. What's the issue?
- jsilence 7y agoCommercial greenhouse growers usually supplement CO2 up to Levels of 1000-1500 ppm and above. The CO2 storage and distribution facility is one more technical component and there is one more dependency to the supplier of the liquid CO2.
- colechristensen 7y agoControlled environment means pest and weed management is easier with fewer or no chemical agents. Closer to end user means less plant engineering for transport and storage which is correlated with worse nutrition (or just less variety)
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