Urban Vertical Farms
July 15, 2008
Urban Vertical Farms are happening! I strongly believe in this concept, because I have seen it in my own dreams. Why do these urban green producing buildings need to be so tall? The answer might be economies of scale; if you’ve built 6 stories of vertical farm, the cost per additional floor drops rapidly.
I imagine these vertical farms will eventually be industrialized to a very large degree. Each floor will have the technology to manage the entire life-cycle of the crop automatically. Conduits to provide water and nutrients, sensors to monitor health of the plants, robots running Linux, that do everything from sow to harvest the crop. All of the code needed to run the farm could be as modular as Ruby gems. A very small team ( maybe one or two people ) could run the whole farm.
The entire design for these urban-agro projects should be open sourced. The buildings could be assembled out of custom LEGO or Meccano kits. Good luck, Dr. Despommier!
Hello world!
July 13, 2008
Welcome to OwnLifeful! My intention is to continue using LiveNudeJournal more casually than this blog. I am very fascinated with all the things I find, exploring the mysterious labyrinth that is life. I love asking difficult questions, and being a provocateur. My reality is split-level; sometimes outward looking, usually doubleplus ownlifeful. I hope to leave behind a rubbing of what it was like, to be me, from the inside. Perhaps I will be thought a troll, since I like to stir things up, but stay above the fray. I love bawdy jokes, witty aphorisms, gallows humor, and random smart-assery. As a teacher once said, “You don’t have to be right or wrong, just be interesting.”
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