• theluddite
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    1 year ago

    Cereal crops are just the information that’s easily available. It’s not a perfect comparison, but still, 5 orders of magnitude is a shocking result. That’s the average American’s daily commute distance vs the distance to Venus. Any reasonable use of indoor farming must somehow overcome how mindbogglingly energy intensive it is.