leaking pen wrote:
That type of growing would be what i meant by more efficient. agreed. a single multistory building with perfect climate and soil control would be great.
Except that you cannot produce ethanol from that because the light from indoor agriculture has to be artificial. There is not enough sunlight, especially with the multistory building. In the food factory I described in chapter 16, they use high-efficiency LEDs. (See the photos.)
As I showed in Chapter 16, overall, on a per capita basis, indoor farming uses about 2.5 times more energy than total average US energy consumption per capita, and that is just for vegetable production. Clearly this method cannot be used with conventional energy sources such as coal or even solar or wind power. It has to be fission or cold fusion.
(The book I am talking about, by the way, is here: http://lenr-canr.org/BookBlurb.htm)
hell, run pigs and cattle on the top floor, and drop fertilizer down.
Seriously, that would use an incredible amount of energy, and keeping animals crowded together in large buildings is cruel. I hope that we can soon grow meat in vitro, instead.
- Jed
