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To put a big number into perspective for how ridiculous indoor cereal grain farming is... 576,000 acres is ~900 square MILES (3x the size of NYC) - or almost ~2
by onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
To put a big number into perspective for how ridiculous indoor cereal grain farming is... 576,000 acres is ~900 square MILES (3x the size of NYC) - or almost ~2400 square kilometers.
You'd need a structure bigger than Florida to replace all cereal grains with indoor farming. It's just absolutely absurd to imagine.
You'd need to get probably a 1000x increase in production for it to make sense to move indoors.
- credit_guy 4y agoIt only sounds ridiculous until you see photos of the greenhouses in Almeria https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/the-greenhouses-of-almeria.html https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/the-greenhouses-of-alm...
- defrost 4y agoThat's a truly insane local climate changing amount of ad-hoc greenhouses, although it appears the bulk crop is leafy greens and organic growers market produce. Grains are different beast again, you want millions of tonnes cheaply with efficient bulk acerage harvesting etc. Thanks for the link, if I hadn't seen it I might not have believed it.
- usrusr 4y agoThose are a long shot from the level of climate control the vertical farming crowd is talking about though. On a spectrum between untouched nature and isolated artificial growing environment the Almeria installations aren't that far from the best-prepared open sky setups.