LAS VEGAS | 30-Story Farm | VISION
Proposal to build the world's first vertical farm.
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/...farm-1.2b.html http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/Next1.2bb.jpg Is this feasible? :shrug: |
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That is very interesting... Bringing the farms to the URBAN instead of rurals!
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There was a thread about this already. Isn't that the same design as the one that was proposed for NY?
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I just can't see how they budget $15M from tourism. Who would people pay that much, when they can see real farms for free?
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this is a very good idea. cities should be getting as much food as possible from local sources, and with desert cities and global warming and peak oil this may become the standard in the future
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This is a great idea! Revolutionnary!
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Casinos make alot. This is a great idea, if it really makes as much as expected.
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I think it's a great idea. A steel structure and a glass curtainwall makes a perfect greenhouse. Hydroponics means you don't need heavy soil, the water can be recycled.
And with the syrocketing cost of oil, transporting fresh produce hundreds of miles to major cities is becomming incredibly expensive, which means that significant cost savings could be possible with this approach. And with the loss of our manufacturing overseas, there is a ton of cheap blighted industrial land around our cities that can be used for these agricultural towers. The economics of these should work out favoribly. I really don't see them as a tourist draw except for class field trips. They wouldn't really be located in the best part of town. |
No real project, not even a vision, just a concept being kicked around.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/gam...yscraper-farm/ No wonder there was nothing in the planning agendas or even the local press. |
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Wouldn't there be difficulties getting water up high?
Also, unless one floor of such a project was several hectares in size, I can't see the efficiency of such a thing. |
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Also i have to wonder how they plan to pick all the food they would grow in a huge farm building. theres no way your getting a tractor up there, so im guessing they use the always ready immigrant? |
Even with food and fuel prices at near record highs this is not economically viable. Unless you can develop some kind of genetically engineered food that can only be grown indoors that people will pay very high prices for. Also the cost of land in cities, and the cost of steel and other building materials are so high that even if a crop needed to be grown indoors it would be cheaper to build single level or even low-rise green houses outside the city.
If someone comes up with an economic model that makes 30 story greenhouses profitable than I would love to see them. They would be very cool. |
Unless they're growing marijuana I don't see how they're going to have anywhere near $25 million in revenue from produce. If each floor is 1/3 of an acre that only give 10 acres total area for produce to grow and be supported. There are thousands and thousands of farmers in the US that struggle to make a living with 100 acres!
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If Las Vegas really needed its own greenhouse to grow food in, they could far more feasably and cheaply just build a giant one-level greenhouse on some of the millions of acres of empty desert that surround the city. The idea of a 33-story farm, makes little sense, even where land is scare, but in Las Vegas of all places- it is completely unfeasable.
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