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Do you get the core concept of vertical farming? It’s just stacked layers of farmland. Greenhouses cannot pack as many layers vertically. It’s pretty straight-f
by chewmieser 3y ago
Do you get the core concept of vertical farming? It’s just stacked layers of farmland. Greenhouses cannot pack as many layers vertically. It’s pretty straight-forward.
If you’re strictly optimizing for just sunlight then sure, greenhouses sound fine. But there’s more factors at play here - like the cost and availability of land now and into the future.
- mjhay 3y agoThe sunlight incident on a vertical farm is the same as would be incident on a regular farm. Having windows or fiber optics doesn't make up for that, especially because anywhere it would be worth it to have a vertical farm, it would be worth it to have other tall buildings. In addition, if you are making up this energy with solar power, you've negated the land use advantage.
- ahartmetz 3y agoYeah. The only way vertical farming could make sense would be with crops that usually get much more sunlight than they need. Even then, if it's a crop that allows to use machines with massive throughput in conventional farming - vertical farming would need something similarly cheap, too.