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WTC Farm
Build a vertical farm on the WTC site | |
Due to the economy and low demand for new office space, it's expected that construction of all of the planned office buildings on the World Trade Center site won't be completed until around 2040... a long way in the future.
I propose that one of those building spaces be used instead to create the
world's first vertical farm.
Wikipedia's description of Vertical Farms
http://en.wikipedia...ki/Vertical_farming
[goldbb, Apr 20 2009]
Vertical Farm
Concrete_20Cow
Wikipedia indicates someone beat me to the idea by 4 years, though. [Zimmy, Apr 20 2009]
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cool, but smack dab in the middle of a bunch of high-rises wouldn't be my first choice for a place to put a farm. |
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+ it saves on food transportation costs, though. |
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Smack in the middle of a bunch of high rises might be the best place to put a farm, though! :) |
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After all, what downsides are there, other than the high cost of urban real estate? |
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The only one I can think of is that the lowest few floors don't recieve very much natural sunlight, due to the surrounding tall buildings, and thus would require uneconomical amounts of artificial light to grow plants. |
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That can be solved either by using more energy efficient forms of artificial light, such as LEDs, or simply by using the lowest floors of the building for offices. (Or growing mushrooms) |
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The lowest floors could be offices, like you said, and also produce retail, or even aquaculture (shrimp, tilapia, catfish, etc.) |
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//Due to the economy and low demand for new office space// |
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But with all the investment in alternative wind energy and potentially no wind, maybe there is a requirement for a large sucking, hoover like device. |
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Hanging Gardens would give the city a smack of Babylon |
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Maybe growing opium would allow Afghan farmers to grow something else ... |
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\Smack of Babylon\ is a great name for something Loonquawl |
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also an 80 story farm would be cool
especially if there were cows and sheep grazing
and no barrier on the edge of each deck |
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we should make one deck a too short landing strip for crop dusting planes |
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