Posted on 12/31/2016 12:48:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With that long, cold Canada winter night, farmers will love that light bill.
There should be plenty of available warehouse space in Alberta, and even more coming onto the market! With Premier Nnutley’s beloved carbon tax starting tomorrow, gas has already hit $1.10/ litre, up from 92¢/ litre on Monday, and the price is expected to go even higher. The tax, at $20/ tonne of CO2, will be yet another kick at our economy. Well done comrade Nutley! Between you and Turd-owe, you make Obloviate look like a piker, at killing an economy!
Broncobama only has 20 days left.
Broncobama only has 20 days left.
Thank you, Jesus!
“With that long, cold Canada winter night, farmers will love that light bill.”
what about the heat bill? unless they can co-locate these “indoor-farms” near output water heated by waste heat from power plants, I would think their heat bills would make all of this impractical. Or perhaps they just put them underground and the light bill is the main energy input after all.
Light from relatively efficient sources (LED shows promise) and warmth from tapping geothermal sources (by drilling a really DEEP shaft and using it as an injection well with a return pipeline) can mimic optimal growing conditions. The capital investment may be quite high, but savings in transportation costs, much more efficient use of labor and other operational inputs, and application of a number of known intensive farming techniques may make such farms a practical enterprise in the future. Placing them in a specifically designed high-rise structure, taking advantage of the waste heat that is all around in an intensely developed urban area, and with light conduction from the sun to the lower levels of the structure, may take the food production much closer to the population centers than is now the norm.
As the old fellow says, not farming nearly as well as I know how to.
1. Highly controlled growing environment with very little need for expensive herbicides, insecticides and possibly a lot less fertilizer usage.
2. Harvests 10 to 20 times per year.
3. Very low transportation costs, since we don't have to ship the harvested food hundreds to thousands of miles.
4. A lot less need for massive amounts of land for farms.
The technology is not completely mature, but once it does, imagine just about all your vegetables truly available fresh essentially year-round locally.
If vertical farming becomes the normal way to produce vegetables it will lead to much faster closing off of the King's Forest to common people. Most of the world will become the preserve only of the Elite. The UN has envisioned that and the USA has been working to put it all into effect. Private property in the USA has already mostly ceased to exist with government units able to confiscate land and everything else just because a bureaucrat wants it. All he has to do is get a LEA to allege that a crime has been committed in proximity to the property desired and the police or any other agency can then seize the property for whatever use is in mind. Technically the "owner" can retrieve the property but he has to put up a surety bond to some percentage of the imputed value of the seized property then prove it has never ever been used in connection with anything illegal.
Without the WOD and just say no, cannabis growers would still be growing outdoors, and most of the technology to grow indoors would not exist.
Think of our current agriculture business as “mainframe” farming. These folks are talking about introducing the minicomputer of farming. The logical conclusion is personal farming, where your fruits (well, berries at least) and vegetables are produced at home. IKEA will produce flat-pack personal farms (or you can 3D-print your own) and everyone who wants to will grow exactly the produce they want, about as “local” as you can imagine.
At only double the price of imported produce. But Canadian Content laws will force them to eat it.
That is a very unique way of looking at it. I’m sure there is some truth to it. I like it. Kudos to you.
However, we’ll still need convention land farming for staple crops like corn, wheat, oats, rice, sorghum, and millet.
I couldn’t agree more.
What possible hindrances would keep them from growing crops inside old abandoned mines. Could there be artificial light brought in to give photosynthesis to plants and grow all year long, underground....
A multibillionaire acquaintance is in Africa right now, buying up land to put in trust so that greedy entrepreneurs won’t be able to spoil it.
I suppose the goal is turn the world into northern California, where only the rich can afford to live, surrounded by large tracts of land set aside (by the rich) to prevent the hot-polloi from infesting it.
Here is a video of my builds of lettuce towers worked very nice this summer. I would like to move it indoors but don’t get enough light upstairs. I have two thousand watt bulbs but they can run up the electric bill. Still might get it hooked up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7es8JNaflA
We watched a show called Homestead Rescue where the rescue team went to a Montana homestead high in the mountains. They excavated a south-facing embankment and created a log greenhouse with a rear rock wall which collected solar energy during the day and warmed the plants at night to keep them from freezing. Reminded me of the earthship concept.
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