isleepinahammock t1_iucnhnt wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:17 AM

Reply to comment by _SpaceTimeContinuum in Indoor agriculture has sustainable potential to feed Canada, others, year round: experts by pirate_republic

Indoor? Yes. Vertical? Not so much. There are a lot of gains that can be made by moving to indoor farming, but there's no reason to make that indoor space a tall multistory building. Indoor farms are something for single-story warehouses on cheap land on the outskirts of cities, not tall skyscrapers in the middle of a downtown.

DontGrumpyStop t1_iud7daw wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:16 PM

What about the 12 story farms they’re building in China?

king-of-boom t1_iudunjb wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:09 PM

I found this quote interesting. Min-max'ing the stats to get the tiniest bump to production.

>“On each floor we can breed 1,270 pigs,” says Yuanfei Gao, vice-president of Yangxiang, the company that built the farm. “But in the future with the design of the new buildings we plan to have 1,300 pigs per floor.”

_SpaceTimeContinuum t1_iudabx1 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:41 PM

>there's no reason to make that indoor space a tall multistory building

Yeah there is. Efficiency. We have a limited amount of land. We have a growing population. You can farm a lot more acres in a multi story building.