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What if the electricity was virtually free? How would that impact the viability of the Vertical Farming System?
Energy stands out as one of the bigger hurdles facing the vertical farming industry. Adding renewable energy would help the environmental impact but to supply enough energy to run a vertical farm would add the huge amount of capital needed. But we are seeing companies add in elements of renewable energy. Do you have any other questions about vertical farms and I can make an in-depth video about it for you?
@Foodverge well since you are asking 🙂 it would be interesting to know :
– which companies are actually playing worldwide to lead this market,
– how far away they are from overcoming regular agriculture,
– how are they planning to handle/deal with energy costs in order to make the products more and more convenient for the average buyer and in the end
-what kind of varieties (if a list already exist) are actually cultivated (cultivable..) in vertical farming
Can you do a video on some of the most innovative start ups in this space?
Great idea, sure we’ll get working on it
Will vertical farms in the open such as tower garden solve the problem of electricity use or in such farms the shadow of the tower will result in low yields ?
By in the open I meant in a polyhouse
The main energy requirement is the light source. It tends to be LED lights as they are efficient and there is a level of customisation you can do to optimise growing conditions. If you used just sunlight on the towers you would reduce energy consumption but also yield. Hope that’s useful. Jack
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Problem is cost, dependencies on monopoly farms. Low income people will depend on farms they hardly capable of paying….
Do you mean cost of infrastructure or cost of the produce? I’d be interested to hear your opinion. Vertical farming may not be the perfect solution but it’s efficiency may be needed to feed an ever growing population
@M Studio Fascinating opinion. I will try to create a video looking at the impact. I don’t think traditional farming will disappear. If farming becomes more efficient then more land may be made available to conserve wildlife. In terms of how sustainable they are, a number of start ups are looking at improving the energy efficiency by using renewable energy and using the organic matter as a heat source in a bio reactor to warm the growing chambers.
@Foodverge by using natural laws we can convert desert into food forests nd can prevent lands from converting into a desert as well. That can ensure a better future as well.
@Foodverge I may guess it may “disappear” in the moment the market speculators will shift from traditional farming products to indoor cultivation. And that would likely happen when their branding/awareness crossed the verge of making them familiar with the average customer. All combined with the fact that will require to cross the “what I’m disposed to pay for..”, a guy would face every time facing the choice between indoor vs outdoor products
what are your sources😡
All from reputable market research companies 😀
Nicely done…very cool idea to organize the video schematically
Yep
I was going to mention cannabis, glad you did. Thing is not to be cutting down our ecosystems and throwing nitrates (limited resource) into our rivers to pollute. There’s far more to it of course as aquaponics is also a VF solution. Meat and dairy is the big one though.
Hey Mr Jonno, ya I agree. Really looking forward to seeing aquaponics scale. We’re working on a video now on some of the largest aquaponic farms in the world.
Many and many thanks to you for your commentary , especially, about the limitations and suitable crops for vertical farming.
— Kishore, K K, New Delhi, India
No problem, what video would you like to see next?