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  • It doesn’t require synthetic nutrients actually, but it does require synthetic sunlight: which is fine, actually.

    The solar panels needed are beneficial to everyone involved. They provide electricity to locals, they help plants combat climate change by providing much needed cover from direct sunlight which these days can completely ruin your crops.

    The point isn’t to make all former farmland SOLELY solar panels. It’s to help the crops/plants themselves grow better under the shade of the panels.

    Sustainable farming is absolutely still a requirement in the future.

    Vertical farming is to supplement the needed gaps in farming, like installing them inside cities so certain plants/crops can be served 1. Much faster, 2. In a much greener state, and 3. Direct-to-store which heavily reduces pollution potential from having to haul it from really long distances away, and in many cases, requiring refrigeration to keep the shipments cool, further polluting the planet.



  • Consider this: You can install a massive local vertical farm directly inside a large city, but you can’t do the same for normal farming. Thus severely reducing the economic/ecological costs of farming, because you can supply locally produced veggies directly into stores, rather than needing to haul them for 50-1000km away.

    And stuff like: You can grow plants 24/7 with no breaks as it’s all automated. You can adjust the “climate” just right for whatever plant you’re growing. You’re not using massive plots of land that could for example be used for housing, and leaking fertilizer/pesticides to the soil/rivers/lakes/sea. You’re not wasting a ton of energy by using combustion based machinery, and also not causing more pollution. In general the energy required for vertical farming can be done entirely by solar.


  • Basically the study found that previous research on TMA’s (which are abundous in animal protein) saying they’re harmful to humans, may actually be wrong, and that they’re in fact beneficial to our health. (edit 2: due to rapid bilophia production in the microbiome, which converts it to DMA?)

    I’m not a microbiologist though, and I hope someone with background could expand this into an ELI5.

    Edit: If you scroll down on the page, you can find a figure (FIG 1) which gives a more easy to understand view on the study and the impacts animal proteins were found to have.