Across the country, more indoor farms are launching or expanding even as others founder. This summer marked the groundbreaking of a huge vertical farming operation in Virginia by the California-based company Plenty Unlimited.
That’s fine, but energy is not unlimited and probably won’t be anytime soon. I think it’s important to understand the realities of indoor farming. I find many in environmental communities like this one labor under the same misapprehensions that I found in this thread, and as a result have an unrealistically charitable outlook on them.
When the energy is essentially unlimited, who cares how much energy it uses. None of that energy is burning fossil fuels.
Not mention all of the cost and resources saved on water, fertilizer, and the fact that you can grow all year round.
That’s fine, but energy is not unlimited and probably won’t be anytime soon. I think it’s important to understand the realities of indoor farming. I find many in environmental communities like this one labor under the same misapprehensions that I found in this thread, and as a result have an unrealistically charitable outlook on them.
True, but renewable energy will be essentially unlimited at some point. Where as fossil fuels will never be.
Also, we can use vertical tech in greenhouses for free sunlight. It doesn’t have to be a box warehouse.