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Additional productivity gains might be made by operating the "indoor farm" within dense urban areas and thus closer to the consumer, thereby removing transporta
by corydominguez 12y ago
Additional productivity gains might be made by operating the "indoor farm" within dense urban areas and thus closer to the consumer, thereby removing transportation costs associated with a typical farm.
- tormeh 12y agoThose are overblown. Modern mega-scale logistics are stunningly efficient. Food shipped by freight-ship and truck are supposedly more efficient with less polution than a local farmer driving hir* produce to market in a car. * I hate that term. So clumsy-sounding.
- pyrocat 12y agohow about "their", no need to bring gender into it. He/She = They His/Hers = Their. Him/Her = Them.
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- GVIrish 12y agoSure, anything at industrial scale is going to me more efficient than a mom and pop operation. But with a system like this you've got scale and proximity. Instead of having a network of trucks delivering lettuce from California thousands of miles cross country, you can have a small fleet of trucks delivering lettuce within a 2 hour radius. Less spoilage, far less gas, and far less planning and logistics. This could be huge in cities with abandoned/run down industrial districts that have been hard hit by globalization.