• The Environment

    Farming in the Sky

    By Cliff Kuang Posted on 10.16.2008 33 Comments

    9.8.2008 at 07:28pm - Comment by SmokeJaguar

    ""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!"" Wow, a system that outputs more energy than you put into it! Awesome! Once I finish ordering the zero point dilithium energy crystals and herbal cures for aids and cancer, this one is next on my shopping list! Honestly, the technology is already being worked out and advances in genetic engineering that have produced commercially viable crops with incredible yields are a much more realistic approach. I MIGHT be able to see this in a place like Tokyo where farmland is as common as flying giraffes, but I think we got a few hundred billion more people until the local Piggly Wiggly needs strobe lights to keep commercial airliners crashing into it. Also, as for factoring in the energy use, did they even calculate the costs and resources needed to build the ugly monstrosity?



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