Steve Pope said...
> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>
>>Steve Pope said...
>
>>> Vertical farming of a sort has been going on for centuries
>>> in steeply-sloped parts of Italy like the Amalfi coast
>>> or southern Tyrolia. All you need is a near-vertical, south-facing
>>> slope. And lots of labor.
>
>>I don't see how it's going to be cheap or even feasible to provide
>>controlled artificial sunlight to all the floors year round.
>
> I'm not aware that vertical farming ever involves artificial
> light. Instead, the man-made vertical structure intersects
> sunlight that would otherwise fall upon non-farming land,
> like a business or residential district, taking advantage
> of the fact that most sunlight is coming in at an angle
> rather than from straight above.
>
> Only pot farmers can afford much artificial light...
>
> Steve
It still can't work. Each succeeding lower floor would get less and less
sunlight, yielding less and less. Even if the building rotated, the "inner
sanctum" of each floor wouldn't see direct sunlight.
Artificial sunlight would be the only feasible way to do a city block 10
acre/10 story building. No other way to do it. It would be "Insanity
Architecture & Engineering."
Let's just think of the illegal aliens and put VFs to rest!!
Andy