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Space tech to give arid countries food surplus
- imtringued 5y agoI want to see more boring afforestation rather than meaninglessly expensive space technology. Aquaponics already exists and it will never be cheap enough for carbohydrates to compete with regular farmland. Building a "food factory" the size of a regular farm is obviously more expensive than running a tractor and combine over a field.
- ThroughTheNight 5y agoThese people never learn, this paper[0] is worth a read. Despite the narrative of novelty touted by these companies, this is not the UAE's first foray with bringing ultra-modern or 'scientific' greenhouses to the Arabian Peninsula – a large University of Arizona project did so in Abu Dhabi from 1969-1974. Yet that project is largely forgotten today, including among today's new AgTech entrepreneurs. This article investigates why this is the case and, more generally, why the systematic failures of high-modernist, spectacular projects like those to green the desert are so routinely forgotten.[0] [0]https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2136/ https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/i...