• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    6 months ago

    One aspect to keep in mind is extreme weather due to climate change. Indoor farming provides a controlled environment, which helps ensure a stable food supply. I think questions like efficiency are secondary in face of that. If you have a heatwave that kills all the crops then you get a famine, and that’s the risk that needs to be mitigated going forward.

    That said, I don’t think you necessarily need to have vertical farms. Maybe simply creating giant greenhouses where you can keep a stable temperature on regular soil it good enough. But this is absolutely something that needs to be explored actively given where we’re headed.