We go to Lots’s new vertical farm in California to study all about the advantages of this fashion of farming, and the technological …
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It’s a great idea for big cities like New York, Tokyo etc, where there is no land for cultivation
From all of this, I'm trying to figure out how are ppl able to patent a light spectrum
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Wow
3:32 and there’s the single-use plastic box, which will be used for four days and last forever.
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I wonder how much electricity it takes to simulate what the sun does for free, this is amazing for the science of automation but it seems a little bit resource inefficient
Automatization of societies founding needs is essential to create a socialist utopia
This material has not seen the light of God and is therefore not food.
The marketing with "renewables" is eye roll induing. You can now add extra steps and cover fields with solar panels instead of plants, basically defeats the entire point of it. Places where renewables are cheap is also where its simpler to grow things the old fashioned way.
The technology becomes interesting when you can pair it with compact & reliable power sources, like nuclear energy. This allows for year round 24/7 operations that are not dependent on the environment. This could make food that normally has to be imported producible locally no matter the climate region your in. This can also be useful for nations that don't have lots of arable land to become self reliant and generally help with global food security.
I also really like the automation here, its impressive, it would be wonderful to eliminate the grueling, inhuman and underpaid labor that farms currently use.
I think permaculture is a much much better solution for a healthy and sustainable future than this. But we live in a tech-oriented society, so the more electronics, robots and artificial environment, the better. 😛 Isn’t it so?
What about the nutrients in the soil? So many of the things that make food actually healthy come from bacteria in the soil, how is that addressed here?
I’m waiting for vertical wheat.
show me how this works with grains!
Hey let's grow lettuce and spinach with expensive artificial light and store in plastic containers rather than using sunlight and selling without containers… for the environment 😂😂😂
Amazing start
The arc of history has been to innovate, so we can live better, with fewer hours devoted to mere survival, so we have more time for quality of life and have the time to think and create. Energy is the key and we are not that far off from massive increases in the use of hydrogen power sources, cleaner and safer nuclear, and the promising liquid fluoride thorium reactors. A new nuclear reactor recently went on line in Finland and for a short time the energy costs were less than zero per (I forget the unit they used). Cheap, reliable, abundant energy will change the world. Maybe we should focus more R&D on that.
Don't forget to make a heat exchange system for pumping the heat into the city so that you can lower the energy bill of residents for heating.
So great to have something BEYOND organic!
And some people still believe that we cannot feed the whole world.
Yes we can. It is simply not profitable. That's the only reason we don't.
They could also use natural sunlight and reduce their energy usage… like every efficient green house… you know.
I work in IT everyday and all I have to say is wow the application is amazing ! Imagine the Egyptian with access to engineering like this groundbreaking what a time to be alive
it all sounds attractive, but it looks so creepy. If you fantasize a little, you can imagine that eventually these machines will produce food only for those who repair and setup them. It will continue until they build a replacement for these people, growing not plants on vertical farms, but new robots. Goodbye humanity, you were cool
How can this kind of approach to food production address these shortcomings: 1) High energy consumption: just how much electricity does it take to make 1 head of lettuce for example, and how much power as a whole? If they were to strictly use renewables, is it even possible? 2) Local jobs: how many people from the community does the business hire? Since it’s all automated, it hardly needs workers. Do they support scholarships so locals can learn high levels skills like engineering? 3) Profit sharing: how much of the revenue benefits the locality? They probably pay taxes. But does the majority of the profits leave the area and into the hands of VCs who funded it?
Is the price of the end product really sustainable for the average American family though? A 4.5 oz Plenty crispy lettuce is around $5.39 before tax in Southern California.