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Apparently reality slowly catches up with the hyperalienated techies that thought you can innovate and engineer your way out of food shortages through technology, increased control, and the ultimate domination of living organisms. Turns out all this is a lot more expensive than originally thought, and rife with other problems.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90824702/vertical-farming-failing-profitable-appharvest-aerofarms-bowery?fbclid=IwAR3wmsXxdwqz6OBTdjoKWIt3QYZDhWRo7F41mVF9Zk7LCBX9VH_L4iY0dPs

There are few things I hate as passionately as vertical "farms," so you can imagine how good I feel when I read about multi-million investments gone sour because people tried to improve upon Nature.

Hopefully this helps people realize that Silicon Valley investors are not the super-smart thought leaders spearheading the transition into high-tech utopia they imagine themselves to be, but pathetic, disconnected computer nerds who think life is a video game - the lesson we can learn is that whatever Silicon Valley plastic people do, we should do the exact opposite.

While still containing plenty of stupidity and hopium, it's definitely an article worth reading, despite its length. As they say in Germany, "Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude!" - Schadenfreude (finding joy in someone else's misery) is the most beautiful of joys.

From the article:

"Adding renewable [sic] energy outside can help—and reduce the carbon footprint that goes along with that energy use—but putting a few solar panels on the roof can’t cover the total amount of electricity needed. 'In a typical cold climate, you would need about five acres of solar panels to grow one acre of lettuce,' says Kale Harbick, a USDA researcher who studies controlled-environment agriculture. A hypothetical skyscraper filled with lettuce would require solar panels covering an area the size of Manhattan."

"Startups have also wildly overestimated how quickly they can grow. AeroFarms, for example, said in 2015 that it hoped to build 25 farms in five years. Instead, it currently has two large commercial farms in the U.S. and an R&D facility in Abu Dhabi. And they’ve overestimated how quickly they can make money."

"Gordon-Smith says that most vertical farms in the U.S. are a long way from profitability. 'Based on an analysis we did for a large private-equity firm, we don’t actually see a scenario where in the next 10 years vertical farming will compete with field-grown at scale in North America,' he says."

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Ur wrong about not being able to control the weather. It is being done even now. Why do you think it recently snowed in Texas? 10 tornados in OK? Iran continually complains to the UN that their people are being subjected to a drought as part of sanctions because "they" can now control when it rains or not.

Have a look up in the sky. See all those straight, white lines? Those are not exhaust fumes from jetliners. Those are chem trails. They eventually spread out and, depending on their chemical composition, affect the sun. Many are made up of Aluminum, which is why there are so many people with Alzheimer's now.

This must end. The patriarchal approach is not working, as you have so brilliantly exposed here. Keep writing. This is what I want to do. My grandfather had a farm up until 1970 or so. I want to use his farm again to grow normal food.

Cheers!

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