A gimmick. The yups will eat it up.
That isn't a 70% increase in population, so why is it a 70% increase in food needs?
Stop growing crops for fuel and you'll have some food back in supply for dining.
“no agricultural runoff,” Really? So what exactly is in the water that is fed to them? It’s liquid fertilizer, and it is not all absorbed, so there is “run-off.”
Not a single Arab will design it.
No mention of the method to harvest 5 stories high...
Can they grow a steer in this vertical farm?
"Where's the beef?"
For a part- time experiment a home gardener could setup a wintertime greenhouse with a vertical hydroponic system. Got to have a heater though and some runoff rain water could be recycled. Wouldn’t need artificial light with the greenhouse.
Just how high up are these farms gonna go?
Oh wow, they invented hydroponics....
Now accomplish the same with carbohydrate rich, protein rich, and needed fats adequate, foods and you've got something. We all starve on lettuce and good intentions.
“Soylent Green is people”
“Transportation costs account for about 4% of the energy in the food system. The energy for electric lights is much greater than that,” he told The New York Times.
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That’s not the impression the corrupt media has been giving for many years.
If the veggies are anything like hydroponic tomatoes, they are for looks only.
Pretty and consistent, but absolutely flavorless.
A picture would be a lot easier to explain what it is
I think the world population was around 100 quadrillion people.
Anyway, each super-skyscraper was completely self-sustaining and at least 10,000 stories high - with many higher than that. It would take occupants a lifetime to discover every nook and cranny of the super-skyscraper they were born in.
Not to mention the basements, would would stretch several hundred stories into the ground.
Millions of people or more would live in each one of these super-skyscrapers.
These structures were so gigantic that over time, the occupants began evolving their own language and culture so that going to the building adjacent was equivalent to entering a foreign country. You would need a passport to gain entry and you would need to obey the laws of that particular structure which could be radically different.
For example, one building required the wearing of women's clothing, whether you were male or female biologically. Another building mandated a maximum age of 30 years. Once you reached 30 years, you were to sacrifice yourself to become food for the livestock being raised.
So the super-skyscrapers basically became their own nations with their own government and military. Wars between buildings were common.
People basically spent their lives in the building they were born in. As the population increased, additional stories would be built upwards and downwards (into the earth). Because the upper stories went into the upper atmosphere, the buildings had to be pressurized and built like spaceships.
Some buildings were more powerful than others and stretched ever higher into the sky. I think one of them ended up being nearly 500 miles above the earth's surface and had a population of several billion people. Constantly building upwards.
I forget exactly how the story ends but there was some kind of massive world war and trillions and trillions of people died. It was a crazy scene. Buildings were set on fire a couple thousands stories above the ground and there were still people thousands of stories above that had no idea what was going on far below them - in the same building.
How the high purity water is produced and how the blowdown is handled will have a very large impact on economics. There are only three companies I am acquainted with that have the rock solid process breadth and industrial qualities to handle the total water side technologies. One is a USA company, another is a European company and the third is Israeli. The Israeli company probably has the best global resume or at least did 5 years ago when I was working on a related system. Sorry Japan, etc, you guys are not likely to be in the game.
I thought tall objects were not supposed to placed near airports.
No doubt it’s great, and extremely efficient...once you exclude the cost of building the thing.