RE: A Future Filled With Foodscrapers
They are practical in building a centralized area where human can use less energy and less land surface, especially since the lands of our small planet are being decimated by our careless encroachment, destroying our own ecosystem.
Using a building constructed with sustainable material would allow us to use the technologies available through the uprise of efficient hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics systems within the building construction, therefore building as sustainable a construction as is in the engineering of its social, environmental and energy impact on the planet and all of its inhabitants. Meanwhile, the natural ecosystems around us would have some time to recover from our on-slaught over the passed centuries thus re-establishing and solidifying the natural cycles from which life emerged and thrived.
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The vertical farm from the clip looked like 1 floor storage space.
There is a reason for the high rents of office space in skyscrapers. It is hard to build very high buildings, and it is expensive to maintain them. When we build more than 10 storey building there are only two materials - steel and reinforced concrete (not environmental friendly). There will be also high electricity consumption for water. We need pumps to push the water to reservoir on 15 floor then other pumps to deliver the water from 15 to 30 floor, etc. I am sure there also will be problems with air conditioning. I think it is just not sustainable to use high building for a farm. Low buildings with glass roofs or artificial lights will be better. Humans occupy less than 5% of the land mass of the planet we have space for hydroponics.
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Furthermore...
For the moment, most of the material used to make high rise is in deed underlined in your note just above, but loads of new materials are arising and finding their way into structures of all sizes and 3-D designed printed. According to the researches made on the use of skyscrapers of all sort, we could use such building strictly for agricultural necessities and water could be either brought up and/or gathered as well. Many options of energy alternatives are offered and already running on the front. the buildings themselves wouldn't need to be containing any offices. the use of wind gathered within the buildings' structures allows for electricity generation and thus providing for all energy consumptions necessary for water/air pumping, when needed and where moisture, water and heat is needed as per arcology principles, see Arcosanti publications.
Great conversation, by the way, thanks a lot for this as it is such an important topic we need to tackle as a civilization.
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Yes great conversation. It is true we impacting the whole planet. By 5% I mean concentrated urban population. There is a lot of space around the cities not occupied by wild life. We can use hydroponics and vertical farms in the suburban area. Skyscrapers for food is just not the way in my opinion. Nations build skyscrapers mostly for prestige not because they need them so badly... There are new materials. Nanotubes are promising but we can’t manufacture them in big industrial scale. No buildings from nanotubes any time soon...
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