[GraceG]

Put this thing in an under ground salt mine with a thorium reactor to supply power and you could survive a Dino-extinction event...

I think we should build a few underground cities, just in case.

[rktman]

Hmmmm. Maybe they pump extra See Uh Oh two in to enhance the food supply for the plants. You know, that evil pollutant.

[DannyTN]

Ultrafarm Ping for later viewing

[Vigilanteman]

In a previous life, I worked for one of GE's competitors in Japan which was growing lettuce from waste heat from demonstration combined cycle plant which we had on campus to show to prospective customers as well as provide our own power needs.

Every few days, each of the 5000 or so employees who worked at our campus would get a bag with 5-7 heads of lettuce to take home. It didn't taste half bad either, just a slightly more bitter flavor than traditional sun-grown lettuce.

I wondered then why it hadn't gone commercial yet.

[Regulator]

But..But...I thought we were all gonna be eatin’ each other by now

Professor Ehrlich told me so

[Alas Babylon!]

Lettuce is great in a salad and lettuce plants are conducive to being grown this way, but what about other crops?

How about crops with better nutritional value?

I’d like to see beans, peas, wheat, rice, potatoes, corn, onions and cabbage grown this way before I would say it is an answer for humanity.

And no to veganism. If you can grow nutritious crops, feed them to chickens, pigs, cows and other tasty critters first.

[ModelBreaker]

“The facility is also bacteria-free . . .”

I have a bit of trouble with that statement.

[zzwhale]

SO ESSENTIALLY THIS JERKOFF IS SAYING THE AMERICAN FARMER DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO DO HIS JOB....
i love the lettuce calculation.... like a head of lettuce grows in ONE DAY... and hey dude ...there is no nutritional value to lettuce... its a garnish.... better yet put the welfare people on a lettuce diet..
JAPAN IS IN THE FOREFRONT... or FORESKIN... what are they doing.. pumping the Fukashima water on the plants..ROOK IT GREW THIS BIG OVERNIGHT... AND IT GROW IN THE DARK TOO.. hey we can use to light the streets with this sheet..naw feed it to the poor...
THE FING JAPS OUGHT TO FOCUS MORE ON RECALLING DEADLY AIRBAGS AND STUFFING MORE ROBOT JAP WORKERS INTO RAILCARS LIKE CATTLE... oh yeah japan the quality of life... and LASTLY WHAT.. NO WATERMELON,,,???

[Mr. Jeeves]

Thanks to technological advances ushered in by the green movement, farming has evolved from a traditional means to sustain a personal living to a science with the potential to feed millions.

I think we have an early candidate for the 2015 Non Sequitur of the Year.

[mrsmith]

“ushered in by the green movement”
my irony meter is peaking out.

This is nuclear-powered farming replacing the traditional solar-powered farming.

[logi_cal869]

This is moronic.

Today’s food has a fraction of the nutritional value.

Put simply, if you measured the vitamins & minerals in a vegetable, take spinach just for an example, in a 6oz serving today compared with 5 decades ago, you would have to eat 10x more servings of the vegetable today to get the same nutritional value you got with one serving prior.

Growing food at the rate asserted cannot possibly be nutritious. Frankly, I believe the degradation of our food supply is a significant part of the national health problem.