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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And we can do all that farming on the moon.
we don’t need the earth, we can do it on the moon

All futurist crappola which is not viable today.
Same with the we don’t need fossil fuels

The obamanite wankers haven’t thought that through neither but they have the west convinced to the point where we are cutting our throats by govt edict.

Fubo


6 posted on 05/13/2023 6:22:40 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: himno hero

Agriculture, and the technology that has built it into one of the greatest of capital-building enterprises, has been what has sustained the ever-growing population of the world, and only in places where agricultural practices are badly applied, have there been famine and want.

I do see a future in which there are “urban farms”, high-rise structures where the techniques of growth lighting and hydroponics is applied to their maximum effectiveness. Being in urban areas, the transport costs from the growing locality to the processing facilities are minimized, the transport to consumer similarly shortened, sort of a super farmers’ market. But this will require enormous quantities of cheap and reliable energy, for both warmth and light, two very essential components for plant germination and growth.

But lab-grown protein is still a pipe dream. Plant protein in and of itself is mostly incomplete, as it takes animal protein to supply ALL the essential proteins human beings (and most other animal life) require on a continuing basis.


11 posted on 05/13/2023 6:52:46 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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