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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]
Mushroom pot farm
http://www.telegrap...overed-in-Rome.html
farm in an old mine [popbottle, Dec 25 2013]
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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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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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My understanding is that the majority of organic produce is grown in Silent Running-like greenhouses. One avoids the need for herbicide and pesticide by doing it all indoors. New Yorkers love that organic produce. I think growing it in the city would be great. |
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Doing this is a mixed use facility would also help with CO2 - greenhouses often require this to be augmented because the plants are hungry. One could vent the building thru the greenhouses, using the CO2 generated by the human occupants. Sometimes the greenhouses might smell like someone's shampoo or stir fry but that is living in the city. The plants don't mind. |
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Has anyone done a conveyor belt vertical farm? Plant
the seeds at the bottom, and let it germinate in the
section that's in shadow. By the time the seed
pokes above the growth media, it's into the portion
of the belt that gets sun. At the top of the
structure, the belt leans bends back over the roof of
the building (the actual growth trays can pivot), so
the last few weeks or month of growth and harvest is
all done horizontally from the roof. |
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Every time I see this I read it as WTF farm. |
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That would be a fine name. It would help attract
tourists to view your specialty vegetables and other
cultivated oddities. |
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Having recently been immersed in Minecraft it
seems to me that this concept would make a fine
Minecraft endeavor. |
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Growing crops in a urban setting is a horrible idea. Not only is it a waste of expensive real estate, all sorts of pollutants, particularly heavy metals from automobiles, will be incorporated into the food. |
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