What If We Built Vertical Farms?
What If We Built Vertical Farms?
As our population grows, we’re going to need a lot more farms to feed the planet. Yet, in a lot of places, farming is almost impossible. And much of the land we can use for farming is disappearing. With so many farms on land, could we build farms vertically to save space? Maybe it’s time to grow … up? Where do we need vertical farms? What would it take to build them?
How could they help to save the planet?
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I wish they could do what they have in the thumbnail…vertical cattle farms.
Why gotta be for murder tho. Go veg, don’t even argue.
Stop the cap just tell everyone we gone have to start growin our own food soon 🤣
England is the most densely populated nation in Europe and yet 75% of English land is used for farming and just 15% for forests. Imagine we can get all 75% of this crop farmland to be done vertically, with all this space we can build so much more urban life and grow so many forests, so much open land for animals etc. the potential is unreal
vertical farming is pretty limited to leafy greens isn’t it? Can vertical farming grow fruits successfully? Otherwise, for what it can do, and save on transportation of trucks etc, I think it’s got potential foresure.
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Let’s build it
Lets get something straight. The issue isnt that we may not have enough food. The world currently produces enough food to feed 10B people. It’s just not profitable to feed them. The problem that vertical farming can solve is mainly environmental. It uses less water, something that within the next few decades is expected to become rare, and it doesnt degrade the environment as much.
I love the idea. I wouldn’t mind paying more money for fresh produce from a vertical farm
Great idea
Great idea
We just need to reduce the 40% of food we throw away
We need to invest in this kind of agriculture it tackles alot of carbon emissions and its healthier because of no pesticides, only we should not sabotage the growing to make it grow faster. They need their time to develop if we dont you lose the taste of vegetables.
Tomatoes and bananas are not tasting to Tomatoes and bananas no more cause we use products to make them grow faster and thats why it loses its taste.
Tomatoes are tasting like water but real tomatoes dont
The problem with vertical farming is sunlight l. By putting plants indoors much the light comes from lamb lights which costs a lot of electricity unless they are powered by renewables.
What if… humanity reduced our population by having fewer children?
The problem is how to grow grains in vertical farm the size of skyscrapers. That’s the challenge, on how to achieve such level of efficiency.
I’m up for this
I have a better idea. Hear me out: Cows. In. Space!
Vertical Farming can be very expensive with led, robotic hands, and artificial water systems
Ok, i guess my line of work is no more needed in the future i guess. Nice
We can build farm on ships also make a reply to my coment
I guess if you like eating lettuce all day
Love the video but at 4:10 there is NOTHING about a nuclear plant making it a natural disaster. Humans built those and operate those not nature
you missed the "lettuce know" joke at the end
An overpowered evolutionary advantage
Why don’t we stop taking good farmland for suburban homes and start undoing urban sprawl make people who are not contributing to agricultural stay in large cities that grow up not out
We’re even late
We just grow limited items grow on vertical farm perhaps its not very successful
The livestock industry is the most cruel, vile and disgusting industry out there. They enslave, torture and murder 2 billion sentient animals per week. They are the worst polluter and the runoff from their disgusting lots where they keep counting animals in the most cruel and deplorable conditions, pollutes water ways and create havoc into wildlife. Vertical farming should stick to plant foods …..period. To hell with the livestock industry and their disgusting products, which by the way are the main cause of cancer and heart decease, the 2 leading killers of humans.
I can’t stand the it because I wanted to start a verticals farming company and they will have the a monopoly on the industry before I graduate college.
Now when I buy veggies I have to make sure it is not vertically farmed
We’re eating food from the lab
Brass Eye did it first.
But people will want to buy "field grown" food. Like non gmo today
I like the idea of vertical farms, but why aren’t there any in India.
If one of the cows in the thumbnail fell off, they would end up as GROUND BEEF.
Like it or not, we need to make our enviroment more vertically along with population growth
This is bullshit. If u look at the map of every country except maybe Singapore and Japan, a major part is uninhabited which means we have more than enough space for farming. What people don’t know is vertical farming or any "modern" farming is not sustainable. They will eventually deteriorate and needs maintanance. What the world needs is to decentralize. Stop cramming all in the cities. Put developments in rural areas so people would move back. There is no food shortage. There’s only lack of infrastructure to make farming produce accessible to lazy city folks. Alot of farmers have no vehicles nor the capital to invest in machineries that would make an end product for their harvest. Say coffee farmers or cassava farmers. Their produce are bought by businesmen for a small price. For Asians, rice farmers are still poor because they can barely afford to mill the rice. But stop saying we’re running out of food. We’re not. There is excess land for farming and alot of farmers aren’t able to make money out of their harvest. Stop this lie about food shortage. Even Africa has so much land for farming but they’re too ignorant to regenerate some of their barren lands. They always portray peolle living in rural areas as poor when in fact people in the city are the real poor ones who has to pay for everything
I love the idea, and the kits for shipping containers is the icing on the cake. with the farms thats out there now can be replanted with trees, and shrubs as a restoration project. We have to protect our Earth, because Earth is all we got.
Vertical cannabis farm
Honestly you can built a vertical farm with no electricity, no AI. In a green house. A drip system can also be made without electricity.
You don’t have to add robotics and electricity to everything we have the sun, soil/water to give plants everything they need to grow. Plus worms a beneficial earth insect.
I’d rather everyone uses backyard or apartment roof decks greenhouses to grow there foods. Basic and simple crops like tomato, cucumber, garlic, onion, potato, carrots, peas and more be grown at home. And a small chicken coop.
Then farmers or vertical farmers make corn, soy, wheat, rice, and hard to grow or takes a long time to grow crop. And bigger animals.
Make these farms local. I don’t believe cities are good nor healthy for the human phyci. And towns and villages are healthier and better for humans and agriculture. Make towns the goal. Make farms in a 1 mile radius of every town. It’s all local and good. Though I agree farms take up alot more space then vertical farms. But I don’t believe farmers should be the only resource to food. And everyone should own and work on there own food. Even if that means aquaponics or vertical farming.
Farming architecture buildings specific to agriculture also floats boat. Rooftop farming also valid.
It’s almost deliberately misleading to juxtapose vertical microgreen operations images of open-field farms growing things that couldn’t be grown in any sort of vertical farm that’s close to existing. Vertical farms also require more energy than open field farms, since they don’t take advantage of any sunlight and require more inputs than permaculture approaches, which makes the ‘what if we run out of oil’ argument a bit strange to use as a cliffhanger. Vertical farms are part of the solution, but if we don’t address our wasteful overconsumption and broken economic system it’s just throwing fancy fuel on the climate fire.
we should do. they see to be good
All fine and dandy until you get the power bill for the grow lights, heating bill during the winter months and what would be an enormous continuous seed bill… Can this really be economically sustainable? Even if you have 50 acres to build a solar farm to run the lights 24/7?
"It tastes good it is good" ME
Don’t worry working on a 0 tick sugarcane farm
The world has to id everyone alive to
Subject them to labour
To build the life blood of humanity
Jobs for all