Across the country, more indoor farms are launching or expanding even as others founder. This summer marked the groundbreaking of a huge vertical farming operation in Virginia by the California-based company Plenty Unlimited.
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.
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.