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E. v. K.
May 21, 2023 at 12:13 pm
Salad is really old News
Wake me when there they grow something new
Jaco Oosthuizen
May 21, 2023 at 12:27 pm
Def wont be cheaper. All those lights you have to power, they will just spin it to say indoor grown so please pay double..
Bob Wallace
May 21, 2023 at 10:24 pm
Hard to say. As things scale up costs usually drop. And renewables are becoming cheaper and cheaper.
Paul G
May 21, 2023 at 1:29 pm
Hope renewables pickup steam quickly. World energy demand is growing at huge pace
T Tarantulas4U
May 21, 2023 at 1:35 pm
Amazing. Lets depopulate so no one can work but illegals and robots. Good job.
Eric Sabo
May 21, 2023 at 1:42 pm
Yes! Eliminating all the costs of major transport. Plus, less or no chance of being exposed to toxins everywhere, beginning from seed to eventually the grocery store refrigerated shelfs.
T Tarantulas4U
May 21, 2023 at 1:51 pm
You didn’t read about the Gates MRNA Lettuce towers yet? Enjoy that gmo-slop.
s pharr
May 21, 2023 at 3:09 pm
Is it profitable?
Felix Five
May 21, 2023 at 3:11 pm
Scary
Ramkrishnan Thevar
May 21, 2023 at 3:34 pm
This is not farming i guess
Yo! Adrian!
May 21, 2023 at 3:35 pm
Uh oh! Bill Gates and the WEF will burn it down soon in an “accidental” fire/explosion, too bad, it looks efficient and reliable.
Develen Tsai
May 21, 2023 at 5:07 pm
This is BS, it’s too expensive to build, it only can grow salads, can’t grow wheat or rice
Average Player
May 21, 2023 at 5:45 pm
Yeah yeah, farming blah blah, it has a very specific use stop calling it a future miracle of food production. Make a video with all these startups and show us how profitable they are. I lost track of ”revolutionary” companies that only function as long as foolish investors pump money in them. After all the scandals and lies anything new has 0 credibility until proven otherwise.
What The Function
May 21, 2023 at 7:17 pm
The zip grow guy?
Outta Thyme567
May 21, 2023 at 7:46 pm
Not sure I understand why there’s a distracting soundtrack
TrumpetGapper
May 21, 2023 at 7:48 pm
Don’t forget, vertical farming has been around for decades.
Aaron Alquiza
May 25, 2023 at 5:49 pm
yes but not with automation like this.
Rygom None
May 21, 2023 at 8:45 pm
That is the future of farming right there.
David Antonio Santistevan Villalobos
May 22, 2023 at 12:37 am
Trabajo amigo????????????????????????????????????????????
Canada Banana Farms
May 22, 2023 at 12:51 am
Geothermal is the perfect fit for indoor farming.
MiroirIndustries
May 22, 2023 at 2:37 am
I played this level in Titanfall 2.
Patrik Olsson
May 22, 2023 at 5:36 am
Super!!!
Moses Shuldiner
May 22, 2023 at 10:04 am
Inspiring. This enterprise will experience exponential growth as cheap, renewable energy tech matures e.g. deep geothermal, fusion, etc.
Derek Wheatley
May 22, 2023 at 12:57 pm
This is definitely one future innovation that I believe will greatly benefit humanity
Ryan98gaming
May 22, 2023 at 5:24 pm
Plenty logo it’s very old style, they should revisit it, they have a vision and innovation. A clean minimal logo would be perfect…
Arno Hesse
May 22, 2023 at 6:22 pm
While I admire the robotics, I sincerely hope that this is not the future of food! Why not use the investment to convert pesticide-laden conventional farmland into organic agriculture? Healthy soil absorb carbon from the atmosphere; the energy-hogging, sun-less and soil-less factories do not.
Brad Anderson
May 22, 2023 at 7:14 pm
Lord Quas
Diesel Techie
May 22, 2023 at 8:21 pm
How much maintenance has to be done on all the machines to keep things going? I know LED’s are the best way to convert electromagnetic energy to photons & last really long. Still any moving part will eventually wear. What’s the energy bill on this place? You also talk about renewable energy abundance but we’re not even close to majority yet & need a cheaper way to store it than lithium batteries.
gbriank1
May 24, 2023 at 5:33 am
Excess business office capacity easily converted to food production. Plus in places around large volumes of fresh water (Great Lakes, NYC) would benefit the most.
Busayo Okeshola
May 24, 2023 at 8:11 am
I’ll be honest, this innovation isn’t as impressive as people think. What matters most is finding a more ethical and sustainable way to produce meat like chicken and beef.
Matthew Baynham
May 25, 2023 at 6:33 am
If the earth gets hit by a massive meteor or if a super volcano goes off, and we end up with a nuclear winter where zero light is getting through to planet earth for a decade or two. Then this technology will save a few rich people.
Zsombor Erdész
May 25, 2023 at 8:52 am
this is not a response to climate change. this is a cause of the climate change.
Misha Guevara
May 25, 2023 at 11:07 am
What kind of Natural Nutrients has these plants absorbed?
This is Hydroponics.
So it is NOT natural. Very low Nutrient Density plants.
As Food…well…not so great.
CF Win
May 25, 2023 at 1:51 pm
Farmer: I left the city after I lost my job to the robots. Now they are taking my farming job. What should I do next?
Career advisor: join the revolution to overthrow the robot overlords.
My name is botánica
May 25, 2023 at 3:31 pm
Please, delete all Wikipedia
People used my knowledges free all my life. It’s forbidden
I will respect you, you respect me
IMightBeBiased
May 25, 2023 at 5:42 pm
Maybe they should be focusing on deploying AI and robots for all the types of mind-numbing assembly-line tasks they’re suited for first instead of having them draw bad art and be wrong on the internet?
Aaron Alquiza
May 25, 2023 at 5:47 pm
i wish they showed more types of plants than lettuce and spinach.
grodt88
May 25, 2023 at 6:11 pm
“climate changes, environmental factors, renewable energy, sustainability”
and yet they pack their green leaves into one use plastic box with will decompose thousands of years… BRAVO BRAVO!! you’re so smart…