I do not think any amount of clever rigging is going to solve the fundamental problems with vertical farming. At the end of the day rural land is always going to beat out urban/suburban land on price.
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HOWEVER - I don't think vertical farming should just be abandoned. It may take a thousand incremental improvements to get it to the stage where it accounts for any significant percentage of our food production, but so be it. It would still be a net good for society.
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For one thing, anything that adds local resilience to the food supply is a good thing. For another, I think urbanites would benefit from being more connected to where food comes from. And in the *very* long term, these techniques will be employed in... (Tim Curry voice) spaaaacce.
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