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Arri London said...

> Lots of buildings in NYC are 'set back' or stepped to provide more
> sunlight to more floors. The building frames wouldn't need to have that
> much floor 'acreage' to work. Think more like terraced hillsides,
> although the terracing isn't really about supplying more light.
>
> Still very expensive to get going.



Arri,

OK, so if you constructed a Vertical Farm at Bryant Park, Midtown
Manhattan, NYC, shadowed by the American Radiator Building (prior offices
of the "Chuckle of the Day"), you'd still be blocked by the sun!

Whatcha gonna grow? ))

<Chuckle>

Andy
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