cdurgin t1_iqyqobv wrote
Reply to comment by InSight89 in ‘A growing machine’: Scotland looks to vertical farming to boost tree stocks. Hydroponics unit can produce saplings six times faster than it takes to grow them naturally outdoors. by Sariel007
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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