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InSight89 t1_iqyaxyq wrote

What is the problem with vertical farming?

I keep reading about all the pros. It's significantly less resource intensive (especially when it comes to the very limited amount of water that's available). Takes up significantly less realestate. Is seemingly simply to control and maintain. So, what's stopping it from becoming mainstream?

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cdurgin t1_iqyqobv wrote

The downside is it's almost always much more expensive. It's a lot cheaper to grow 20 acres of corn in a field in the Midwest than it is to grow the same amount in a much smaller footprint indoors.

Current technology and methods have gotten very efficient and it's hard for new technology to compete.

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gandalfian t1_iqyd2kz wrote

In England it's competing with some huge Dutch green houses that already mass produce dirt cheap veg heated partly by wind power and the sun all from a small piece of land some way north. So what problem does that leave vertical farming to solve?

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