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The vertical farming bubble is finally popping (www.fastcompany.com)
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Good to see venture capital getting burned in this space. Better to focus on sustainable growth.

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[โ€“] sexy_peach@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's mostly because they require a lot of electricity for lights, right? Because plants outside use the sun and inside there is no sun.

[โ€“] poVoq 2 points 2 years ago

Actually from the ongoing energy consumption perspective it is more efficient to build solar-panels and feed the electricity into highly efficient LED lights for these plants, but the picture is less clear when considering the entire life-cycle costs of these very capital intensive vertical farms.