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- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -2/+20few urban designs address the world’s burgeoning population better than vertical farms.<-- This statement is both true and odd to read. We are farming ourselves, looks like the beginnings of the The Matrix.
- zacbro, on 02/16/2009, -0/+9This site needs a building with vertical web server farms.
- amk29j, on 02/16/2009, -0/+9There are always concepts for vertical farms, but has anyone actually gotten one approved to build? Are they actually economically feasible? This could solve much of the world's problems, including irrigation problems, erosion problems (both topsoil erosion and other erosion), salinization problems, and just the obvious: space problems.
But I ask again... is it really economically feasible? It's interesting in concept and I hope that it will happen one day, but right now, it doesn't seem likely. - CaliforniaEagle, on 02/16/2009, -0/+9Looks like a building out of "The 5th Element"
- ferny12, on 02/16/2009, -0/+6First step would be to stop expanding suburban construction in this country. Then we can begin to build truly sustainable "vertical" cities. With the current recession and social/political climate we may be on our way.
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -2/+8That's so amazing. Maybe this is what the future will look like in a couple of decades.
- markosfunk, on 02/16/2009, -0/+5this site's great, the other day it was mushroom cities
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You sick *****! - borschwanger, on 02/16/2009, -1/+6i vote for the launch arco
- miffelplix, on 02/16/2009, -0/+5Birth control/family planning is a better option.
- couldbewrong, on 02/19/2009, -0/+4Mmm... this building gives me a rumbly in my tumbly.
I'm just a Little Black Rain Cloud
Hovering under the honey tree
I'm only a Little Black Rain Cloud
Pay no attention to little me - inactive, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3Seriously a vertical farm in Manhattan? That will never happen. Farmland will never be more productive economically than office/apartment space. Not saying it's a bad idea... but seriously, what developer would ever put hundreds of millions of dollars into building a skyscraper for farmland?
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -1/+4that looks like *****... seems like a random wasp hive has started building itself in the middle of the walkway
- jra75, on 02/16/2009, -0/+3While this is a neat concept, we are able to feed more and more people with greater crop yields thus requiring less and less land. Whenever I fly I'm amazed at how much of the world is still un-developed.....pushes concepts like this back further. Nice idea but long way off from being needed.
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2Don't get your hopes too high. After all, we're about 8 years removed from 9/11 and we've still yet to get the 'freedom' tower off the ground...
- inactive, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2First post I've seen that actually gets it.
I don't think too many people digging this story have ever been on an actual farm or understand the requirements for maintaining it. And farmland is cheap and plentiful, whereas land in Manhattan? You couldn't possibly pick a worse place to farm due to land expense and general cost of utility and supply. - dae3dae3, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2I really think that some people need to get out of the cities and drive away from the coasts. There is a crapload of open space. You can drive for hours and not see anything but open land once you get away from the coasts. If you get west of the Mississippi river it is even crazier how much space there is.
We are in no danger of running out of land in the USA any time soon. - judahhertz, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2That's crazy, I'll believe it when I see it.
- amk29j, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2Aha! I was wrong... there are some in progress and that have already been built (partly).
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/ecology/15-li ... - doctressjulia, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2That's ***** awesome. I would really want to live in one of these.
- wiggles, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2Nice idea. Too bad you can't get enough production out of something like this to equal the amount of money you'd have to put in to make it work in the first place. Also, you have the problem of the vegetables absorbing the airborne pollutants that the city produces, which can't be very healthy. Maybe when we ditch coal fired power plants and internal combustion engines, but not yet.
- briotron, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2I dugg this, it is trippy, if it is built i'll be tempted to smoke a fat bowl and just wander around there for hours. but can't it be more um.. beautiful? i'd hate it if "organic" structures of the future are assumed to be ugly. Inside it's not so bad though
- MaxRipple, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2Is insect societies the future of the human race? Probably yes.
Individuality will soon become a luxury only the elite can afford.
One question remains... who will be the ruler of this new utopia?
Undoubtedly a collective intelligence. IA (Google aka Skynet), a charismatic ruler (Obama Clones)
or perhaps the Anti-Christ himself (Nicolas Sarkozy, Willian Gates III)... - DBreeze, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2That thing is an eyesore. It would never be allowed to be built in Manhattan or any other respectable American city.
- desqjockey, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2These are retarded. You put farms on low value land, not high value dense urban areas. There is no way the cost of transport could get so high as to require this.
- Groucho88, on 02/16/2009, -0/+2i can't wait for future farms!
- slickmick, on 02/17/2009, -0/+2Beautiful but completely pointless.
Drive an hour from NYC and you have all the open space you want. Drive another hour and you have more than you could ever need. - amk29j, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1I don't think it's completely because of a hugeass population... it's got to do with land resources as well.
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -1/+2
Vertical farms are amazing: Locally grown, organic food.
Personally, I'm a proponent of rewilding as much land as possible. We can live quite well in urban areas, and the way technology is going, horizontal dirt farming and mining are going to be a thing of the past (replaced by vertical farms, recycling and nanomaterials). Having a clear separation between urban and wild, with high speed rail and solar powered airships for transportation between cities, would easily be one of the most ecological ways for human beings to live. If we use the population density of Chicago as a guide, that means that the current population of the world would fit on .026% of the world's land surface area. - the2989, on 02/16/2009, -1/+2Farming 2.0
- CoD4, on 02/16/2009, -2/+3I thought we were scared ***** the last time skyscrapers were spiralling?
- alvinhokid, on 02/16/2009, -1/+2interesting concept... but it sure is ugly
- Wonderama, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1The probability the value of a unit of Manhattan living space will be exceeded by an equivalent unit of farmland is exceedingly small. Nice flight of fantasy, but simple real-world economics says otherwise.
- aenima987, on 02/16/2009, -1/+2Wait, but wouldn't this cast a shadow on surrounding land, making it unusable for agriculture, therefore nullifying the entire point?
- Jsmuli2, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1Almost....
- Vexonian, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1I somewhat agree, I know that form should follow function especially in this case, but it reminds me of some kind of infestation.
- Dustin00, on 02/17/2009, -0/+1Mmmmm... high lead, mercury, and heavy metal foods grown in cities.
Just what we needed to replace the drop in carcinagens from the dropping smoker numbers! - Hockey13, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1No, they really aren't economically viable. The simple reason: cost of energy. If it were just the cost of the building that needed to be recuperated, it could work, but how do you shine light on all of the crops? How do you water them all? This is a constant variable cost that, at current market prices for energy, would render projects like these unprofitable.
That said, the ultimate feasibility of this sort of project depends on two major variables: the long-term average cost of real estate in all places that can be considered arable, and, as mentioned above, the cost of energy. If the cost of real estate continues to go up in the long term (as it has to given a rising population and finite land resources) and the cost of energy continues to fall, we will eventually see vertical farms that can make some serious bank for those willing to exploit the efficiencies that come with centralized urban farming. - amk29j, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1@tmcal: How about a farm skyscraper in the middle of Montana?! I'm sure that the land is pretty cheap there and if you use vert space, you'd have a crop so much bigger than if you just used the actual land. It's still ridiculous, mind you, but it was a funny thought.
- maxjames007, on 02/16/2009, -1/+2interesting.
- jofwooster, on 02/18/2009, -0/+1http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/09/tropicool-at-k ...
- bsonline, on 05/02/2009, -0/+1It would be nice if we could address some issues before construction, however. When these things are first built, I'm sure the location will be carefully chosen to provide plenty of sunlight. However, that also means they will A) cast a huge shadow and B) have to worry about future buildings blocking their light....
- tgc1, on 02/16/2009, -0/+1Epic movie goodness.
- durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -0/+1
I never said anything about "anytime soon" - inactive, on 02/16/2009, -1/+1I really don't see this happening any time soon.
- FyrFyt, on 02/16/2009, -0/+0Hurry before the line gets long to reserve your Human Battery pod with the best views. Remember is location location location.
- chejohnson82, on 05/22/2009, -0/+0Why not waterproofed/dirtproofed webservers with potted plants growing on top of them - I host my site on a "green" server that plants trees as an offset, but if anyone ever literally farms a server farm I'll switch my business to them immidiately.
- escobar082983, on 02/16/2009, -1/+1very crazy indeed...i mistrust all these super cities..im staying far away
- DonAlfred, on 02/16/2009, -1/+1I thought farms were for pigs, cattle and chickens.
Now humans? That's just wrong. -
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