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.
Solar power has timing, storage and transmission issues that adding to it this way won’t help. And it’s all on municipal water systems, so not only is it impacting the treated water source for home, and the aquifer it’s pulled from, it has to be treated to remove chloramines before used on plants.
I have no idea why people have this urge to even further industrialize the food supply, and they’ll be the first to scream for “natural” food sources, yet think that putting food production indoors with artificial light, heat, nutrients and non-natural water sources is somehow better.
Solar power has timing, storage and transmission issues that adding to it this way won’t help. And it’s all on municipal water systems, so not only is it impacting the treated water source for home, and the aquifer it’s pulled from, it has to be treated to remove chloramines before used on plants.
I have no idea why people have this urge to even further industrialize the food supply, and they’ll be the first to scream for “natural” food sources, yet think that putting food production indoors with artificial light, heat, nutrients and non-natural water sources is somehow better.