• The Environment

    Farming in the Sky

    By Cliff Kuang Posted on 10.16.2008 33 Comments

    9.5.2008 at 06:15pm - Comment by tstrahle

    Really, really, REALLY cool! But now get out your calculators, at $200 million, by 50,000 people, average four in a family. That's $160,000 per family! And that's just to start, then there is labor costs, seed and soil costs, water costs, and all those costs fluctuate through market forces. Still like the idea though. It would take very dire circumstances to make it happen. And the "end of times" folks tend to forget that humans won't let things get that desperate. Now that I think of it... there's a guy down the street that employs a similar contraption to grow, um, his own, uh, shall we say, personal crop.



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