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> 1 acre/acre I’m pretty sure that will always be the ratio, and there’s nothing anyone can do to improve it.
by haram_masala 6y ago
> 1 acre/acre
I’m pretty sure that will always be the ratio, and there’s nothing anyone can do to improve it.
- tomrod 6y agoNot OP. I assume they meant 1 acre of growing space per 1 acre of surface area. We can increase that with multiple floors.
- brippalcharrid 6y ago> 1km X 1km X 1km underground vertical farm Even if we could only implement vertical farming at a similar level of productivity to traditional agriculture on a horizontal basis (although it seems from the paper that we could do a lot better than this), with a unit height on the order 1 metre/unit, we could still achieve productive densities hundreds if not thousands of times higher, given sufficient power and building technology.