Good to see venture capital getting burned in this space. Better to focus on sustainable growth.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
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      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.