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Vertical Farming

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the high-rye's-buildings dept.

SolFire writes "The BBC is running a look at the potential for Vertical Farming in the Big Apple, a concept that promises to reduce the environmental impact of farming and increase the efficiency of food production by building multi-story farm complexes in urban areas. The vertical farm is envisioned as a self sustaining complex of greenhouses stacked on top of each other. More details can be found on the project web site."

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  1. arcology by rarel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting.

    Could be the first step towards building arcologies...

  2. Air quality? by erroneus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have to wonder what the produce would be like given the general air quality in that area. I doubt this sort of thing could be scaled large enough to actually make a positive impact on the environment so my question would be what consequences would occur in the resulting produce? Would it be carrying toxic or other unpleasant side-effects?

    And even more importantly: Where will they get the illegal labor to harvest the stuff?