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Nevermind that land used for energy often isn’t suitable for farming, so … even with the hypothesis, limited as it is, it’s flawed.
by jobe_br 6y ago
Nevermind that land used for energy often isn’t suitable for farming, so … even with the hypothesis, limited as it is, it’s flawed.
- monkeycantype 6y agoYes this could save a lot of arable or environmentally significant land, even if it didn't save a net m^2
- TheCoelacanth 6y agoLess suitable than empty air 10 feet above the ground? How is vertical farming powered by solar panels better than building the same artificial growing environment at ground-level and powering it with sunlight?
- trickstra 6y agoBecause you can put the solar panels above a parking lot. You can't directly compare land area for growing with land area for solar panels, qualitatively, they are two very different lands. We have more of the latter.