I listened to an excellent discussion of Vertical Farming on a podcast this morning. Vertical farming is the idea of growing produce in a building.
Two reasons why this could be a great idea struck me immediately.
1. As the price of petrol increases, growing produce locally will become more economical. Vertical farms could allow cities to grow locally.
2. Climate change could mean increased droughts or floods in some areas, climate controlled farming can prevent damage to crops.
Here is a link to an mp3 of the podcast:
Futures in Biotech: Vertical Farms
You'll need to skip to about 33mins in for the vertical farming discussion to start
vertical farming that does
vertical farming that does work
looks like "eco geek"
looks like "eco geek" is skeptical about the vertical farms I haven't done the math on the economics and the author doesn't provide any numbers to back his claims. I'd be interested to see an article that actually does the analysis.
I did an exaustive study on
I did an exaustive study on the maths of the economics the other night but then i had a few wines and forgot to write it down, pity I seem to recal it was quite interesting.
The idea doesn't work for
The idea doesn't work for plants but it's a goer for factory farming pigs and cows.
I believe, but can't be arsed finding the link, that a chinese eco-development planned to have factory farming floors. You can pack a lot of protein into a small space, edible plants don't scale that well, unless you go for some kind of photosynthetic algae. mmmmmmmm
In arid areas growing plants
In arid areas growing plants indoors makes sense to conserve water.
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