Vertical Farming

[CuriousRiz 1]

It's been a LONG time since I've been here. Not sure if this is the right place for this but here we go.

Today I saw the first episode of "City 2.0" and they were talking about ways the city can change for the better. One of the ideas were about Vertical farming which is actually coming true. Of coarse it's starting at a small scale with "Roof Farming" (had a difficult name I can't remember) and showed concepts of the different buildings. Two of which reminded me of Simtropolis.

Vertical Farm by Chris Jacobs

 

Pyramid Farm by Eric Ellingsen and Dickson Despommier

 

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There are lots more here:

VerticalFarming.com
 

[AndisArt 2,066]

Pegasus did the Vertical Farms:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18462

other versions:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18465

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18464

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18463

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18466

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18501

[Lampala 1]

Cool, but the huge park area around the pyramid seems to defeat the purpose of the vertical farms in the first place...

[Motina 77]

Originally posted by: Lampala

Cool, but the huge park area around the pyramid seems to defeat the purpose of the vertical farms in the first place...quote>

Not only that, I find the pyramid structure a massive failure... for any use. Whether it be glorified divine right or agriculture.

[Jasoncw 11,840]

Vertical farming doesn't make any sense. Think of how expensive it would be to build a tall building for a farm, and then compare the square footage you get from that with that of a commercial farm. The two are on completely different scales.

It could be more practical for specialty items, like special herbs or something like that which are grown in small numbers and need special conditions. However, even for those, whatever automated harvesting/watering/etc. systems you have would be more effective horizontally anyway.

Things like victory gardens or roof gardens are effective because they're cheap and easy, and because they take advantage of the numbers of a enormous decentralized system.

[Lampala 1]

It'll only be useful if one day there's a massive overpopulation problem, I guess. It's still cool, though.

[chris0101 8]

Inevitably, it cannot compete economically with factory farming in terms of the cost:food produced ratio for now. However, one question: where are we going to get the land to feed our exponentially growing population? We have taxed this planet's water and land systems to the limit to feed our species as is. We're going to need unconventional alternatives.

Vertical farming, when combined with say, hydroponics or aeroponics (which requires the least inputs of water and energy) may very well be one the few solutions (apart from voluntarily reducing our population) that we have. We're going to need to throw all that we have against the coming century as global warming makes less and less farmland available for our usage (along with depleting water supplies and soil that has been ruined). Vertical farming may not be economical today, but if it is a choice between innovate or die, what will it be? I choose to invest in innovation. It may not succeed, but what choice have we?

[Doofenshmirtz 0]

I think vertical farming is the only solution to a growing overpopulation issue besides the controversial extermination method. That is if you want people to continue eating farm grown foods such as fruits vegetables and meats, which are quite primitive when you think about it. Rather i'd have a system whereby all foodd was produced mechanically in a factory type system using a device which puts together various essential vitamins, energy, roughage, etc into a combined multi purpose edible paste similar to vegemite, which could replace the need for farms in the first place. The paste could be given any flavor imaginable by using artificial flavors, and texture by applying the paste to a tasteless shapeable solid substance which could replicate chips, burgers, etc

Doctor Who used this in the first doctor's reign with a food machine, and on Beyond Tommorow they had a similar idea whereby tastes were produced electrically, so it isn't that far fetched. The only opponents i can forsee are hippies, or 'health food' types