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  • Vertical farming usually uses LED lighting, not direct sunlight.

    That’s one method of bringing"sunlight" to plants. Another would be to grow them outside.

    And I think the idea is that once the water is present on a given level it gets recirculated and reprocessed there, so it wouldn’t need much additional pumping.

    Even if all you do is pump all the water from the floor of each level to the ceiling of the respective level, you’ve done the exact same amount of work as pumping all the water for the top floor back to the roof in the first place. Only you’ve done it with a hundred pumps and a hundred times the points of failure and repair rate as a single pump for the entire building.

    You’d be so much farther ahead to just install a reservoir on the roof that gets filled by a single pump and let gravity feed the lower floors. Much the way we already do for flat farming.

    And then you’ve got to make up for the inefficiencies lost in planting and harvesting. Vertical farming brings nothing to the table except a smaller footprint in a world where that’s not a real advantage.

    A far better use of empty office buildings would be to convert much of the space into full-time living space.







  • Well in that case you’d still benefit from the change because overtime would kick in after 32 hours instead of 40.

    “Overtime” doesn’t “kick in” when you’re working at your third job that only gives you 20 hours a week because they “can’t afford” to pay overtime every time you have to cover someone else’s shift.

    Of course reducing inequality and putting more of the nation’s wealth in the hands of working people is a part of the project.

    As we continue to move away from full-time jobs to a gig based economy, none of this applies to anyone that needs it. If you want to put money into the hands of working people, just put money in their hands. Capitalism is incapable of providing care for the members of society that don’t have capital, and trying to fix society’s problems with Capitalist tools is doomed to fail.