Philips Is Revolutionizing Urban Farming With New GrowWise Indoor Farm

Kristine Lofgren writes: With arable land dwindling and the cost — both economically and environmentally — of growing and transporting food increasing, it's time to redefine farming. So Philips is creating a revolution with their new GrowWise indoor farm, which uses customized 'light recipes' in high-tech cells to grow plants that don't need pesticides or chlorine washes, and use a fraction of the water that traditional farming requires. The system can churn out 900 pots of basil a year in just one square meter of floor space, and bees keep things humming year-round for farming that is truly local, even in the middle of a city.

Comments

900 pots of "basil" a year

[SuperKendall]

It's OK. I'm from Colorado, I know what you really meant.

Re:Dwindling airable land?

[Overzeetop]

You, sir, are no libertarian. Anyone can give things that don't affect them the finger, but the true test is if you can eschew logic even for things you DO care about.

So, for farming, the best libertarian course of action would be to allow the market to run its course. The smart farmers will grow a variety of crops, neither making a killing nor perishing. Some farmers will guess and go all in on the next big thing and we'll have a few billionaire bulb farmers from time to time, and a bunch of people will lose everything and become destitute, willing to work for the smart farmers for a fraction of what they're worth - a capitalistic utopia.

The current system really is just the government fucking with the natural, capitalistic order and stealing money from the common citizen to prop up the stupid farmers. A real libertarian would realize that.