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The Epic Failure of Vertical Farms – What Happened? [video]
- bell-cot 2y ago(2024) - not that it matters Summary: "It sounds absolutely awesome, and pushes all my buttons!" fails to trump the merciless arithmetic of real-world agriculture. And not bothering to do that arithmetic does not magically change anything. That I can recall, absolutely zero "traditional" agricultural companies (which would know the arithmetic) ever expressed interest in vertical farming. Similar in my own family, which has farmers on both sides.
- ZeljkoS 2y agoIt is interesting that HN community discussed why it wouldn't work all the way back in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701724