Your opinion about Vertical Farms and the Future of Agriculture
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Cthulhu the Omnipotent- So if all of our [USA] farms go vertical, what will basically 90% of the Midwest be used for?
SuperDonkey12347- They could make the building hollow and use the center for storing water for the plants. They could put fish in it to produce fertilizer and humans could eat them in the nearby city. Since the building could be hollow the wouldn't be a need for sunlight in the middle. So the building would produce fertilizer, agriculture, fresh fish, and water storage without needing much sunlight.
Valentinia Kladimironova- I hope this will become the reality, not only can we save plenty of forests from being cut down, but we may even give back some farm land back to nature.
Jonathan Strickland- Here's a behind the scenes story from this episode -- more than any other episode we have shot for Fw:Thinking, this one caused the crew to laugh. That laughter meant I had to shoot the sight gag in this video many, many, many times. Joe, who wrote the sight gag, is beside himself with glee.
TheWolfHowling- Maybe to get light into the center of the structure, some to the upper floors could be more donut shaped? And the hole the the middle could passively collect rain water like a bucket or barrel. Or maybe they could using Hybrid Solar Lighting, where solar collectors transit the sunlight through fiber optic cables into the building but have electrical lights as well as backup
Krishna Gupta- Array
Frank wiebe- Forget sunlight genetically modify plants to get their energy form electrical outlets directly and grow plants in the dark.
Rowena Austria- My thesis is about urban farm. Can you please suggest reliable sources for me to use?
sha3rawee1- I don't know how I would do it, but I sure know what I will grow, WEED
Ronan Campbell- if you go to "envisioning emerging technology".com it says vertical farming will arrive in 2025-2026.
L Vamanara- isnt vertical farming a joke from brass eye?
Ken Fromchicago- What if they used mirrors to reflect sunlight from the edges of floors to plants in the center of the floors? Could that solve the vertical farm sunlight problem?
ZZDaikun- I'd probably grow some bok choy.
SolidWolfG- Vertical farms are the future of agriculture
HowStuffWorks- Modern agriculture comes with some pretty big drawbacks, but vertical #farming could be the solution we're looking for. Learn what that might look like on the large-scale in this +FW: Thinking episode.
SENRON U- Array
KamidakeRed- Omega Gardens concept is amazing if you havent heard of it look it up. it solve alot of the power, lighting, and water issues. also produce a greater yield of crop
Barry Lutz- Array
Michael Hartman- Instead of a "thick" cylindrical building a thinner south facing "wall" could be constructed. A east-south-west facing "C" shape might also be built. Glass might be used for the floors and mirrors or glass for the walls. Not all plants need full sun so those plants might be grown on the north side. Rain capture on the roof might aid in some of the watering needs.
Galen Woltkamp-Moon- Vertical farms are the future of agriculture
Slaughtz- I don't know about urban, but my initial thought was layered farms, in the form of a pyramid, going upwards. Those other ideas in the video sound better though.
upinder bindra- Wow first time first
bob bacon- I think vertical farms should be triangles
Bruno Alfon- Legendas em Português!Go! Go! Go! :D
Kitsune Ken- you should have said "meh" at the end like a goat! :D
Stuart Brown- In terms of vertical farms, energy is the critical factor, so what if solar electricity were to get really cheap, well solar can harvest the suns energy 50 times, as much per acre hectare, as biofuels production, it needs no water. So we harvest the suns energy, indirectly from agriculturally and largely residentially worthless desert land, at 50 times the efficiency of agriculture, with no fertiliser, pesticides, herbicides, fuel for transport apart from installation. The energy goes to the power grid, where we want the food, yes is the city, which are largely near the ocean, desalination gives us the water, for hydroponics, LEDs the other side of the photo voltaic quantum circuit, here passes that energy to the plants at high efficiency. With all that energy, smelting low grade metal ores, into high grade metal, becomes very cheap, we pass that metal through a 3D printer, to make the structural beams of the vertical farms. Other 3D printers make the walls, no need for windows, the LEDs provide all the lighting, people we've seen this before, the first industrial revolution, was parallel by the agricultural revolution, brick works, structural steel and other factory production. In the second industrial revolution, 1915-25, cars and trucks replaced horses, with massive crop savings, on food for animal feed, reduced food spoilage from faster transport, canning, more food saved from agricultural animals, beasts of burden. Huge expansion of artificial fertiliser and its transport, the cities construction boom, urbanisation, which is actually very much more efficient, concentrated plumbing, sewerage, electricity, housing, transport, communication. Of course as the market saturation point occurred, then the great depression happened, the great stagnation has lulled us into thinking history is slow, but once a century, things change fast. Because of changes in energy use, the math of Newton, Maxwell, the Quantum physicists, leads every century or so to a decade of intense industrial revolution, theory, novelty, maturity, market dominance and then saturation. Remember solar is one hundred times cheaper than in 1977, per kWh, employs more people than the automotive industries in the US, more people work in solar in Australia, than in the coal mining industry. Just a block of a quarter of Australia's desert is 1,000 by 1,000 kilometres, that's a trillion square metres, enough to produce a trillion tons of liquid hydrogen a year, or 2,500 times as much energy, as Australia uses every year, we only have 24 million people, on a huge continent that is 75% desert. When those huge light aircraft, using light, cheap, efficient liquid hydrogen arrive, spewing their passengers on to high speed rail, into the cities, rental prices will be even worse, even with 3D printed housing. I wonder, people under desert solar farms, draining water from the desalination plants, air conditioner going all day, in 3D printed houses, maybe the grand depression won't be so bad, when market saturation arrives. Of course if we make an off planet economy, market saturation won't arrive for another century, still we may be able to use the Ort cloud of comets, as a staging area, for getting out of the solar system, there's an outside chance, we could use vacuum energy, quantum computing to open wormholes, to other universes. Last 2 sentences, largely for fun.
susheel kumar bhargav- As far as my country is concerned I would construct a vertical farm in the city centre, use adaptive solar panels in the nearby area to balance sunlight and obviously aquaponics to use the waste produced by the city.. the architecture will be similar to Green architecture and cybertecture
Saurabh Jays- Being the son of a Father who never graduated from college,who spend his entire childhood in poverty,he surely decided to buy a farm that is worth a fortune for even the best university alumni and made me a doctor,I love farming.We grow soyabean and cotton.
ax b- I've literally had this idea for years. It's logical imo.. simple space optimisation.
heino dahmen- very nicely said. from the east of africa comes a group with a brillant idea to make future generations aware and responsive to container farming! it is called " ONE I-POT PER CHILD" check them out on facebook -- FundiKipusa----- teaching children in schools the technology that we need in the future is the best way forward. Give all children in the world one and the same thing to talk about, regardless of race or religion!! get that going, because what ever the future will bring. Air, Water and Food are not optinal
Zypofaeser- We could have artificial farms powered by nuclear. It would be zero CO2 food factories!
isaac gould- Array
AlphaGamerDeluxe- what about fusion energy? that is comming near future! and it is virtually infinite clean energy!
Johnson Chu- You should have showed this to matthew mcconaughey, interstellar would have been a bit different.
Morph Verse- There are concepts that people can have their own mini glowing glass box to grow their vegetables and fruit with LED lighting and cheaper.I can see those techniques being used in grocery stores, home and vertical farms.And eradicate the whole food scarcity..
WolfRider- Lop I learm a lot from ur videos and I would have my fa so people could see how a farm workws
Furqan Maudhudy- This technology will change Harvest Moon Game in the future
Science stephen- The solution is bugs they take less water and food to raise they provide more protiein then say beef people ate bugs before us and they're are still people eating bugs in other cultures
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Porpusmaster Pineapple- if the farm starts here we can start building city's of them then CA won't be in a drout