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Just to set the record straight, this isn't just some crackpot idea or unrealistic dream. This system has been fleshed out on all levels of practicality by students, scientists and engineers, including economic factors. This model is truly revolutionary, and is a great hope to relieve and protect our environment, resources, and food supply, utilizing vertical space to provide quality organic produce to urban centers. The model was originally developed as a "closed system," in that all waste products and nutrients, air, water are recycled in the building. Hundreds of plants/vegetables have been studied and found suitable for this system, and the BEST part is, it generates energy beyond what it uses! Healthy pesticide-free food, energy, and waste management, without threat of drought/flood, insects, diseases, etc., all by putting the farm indoors. The idea of channeling waste into it I have not heard, but bio-remediation is not a new concept and could be feasibly integrated. Seriously, it is imperative that we look beyond our traditional conception of the family farm, which is now mega-agribusiness using chemicals and polluting fuels. The most important goal is no longer profit, but to safeguard our food supply from climate change and disease, and to conserve our precious water and energy resources. Visit www.VERTICALFARM.org to see for yourself the levels of efficiency it can attain, there is more than enough evidence to persuade even the most skeptical. Not just claims, but numbers and evidence. Let us make a rational decision to provide food for more people with less environmental consequence, it's time to make this the reality.