On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well I suppose I can see the relevance to vortex-l . . . > > > Not that relevant, but it is one of the things I described in my book, > which I have been following for some time. Indoor farming plus in vitro > meat production would free up just about all of the land now devoted to > agriculture. The only thing we would still grow outdoors would be fruit > crops on trees, and trees for lumber. > I've looked very carefully at photosynthetic efficiency as part of my work with the DoE EIA founder on coal-to-algal protein macroengineering. While I can see in vitro meat production being key to reducing land use (keep in mind you have to get the amino acids from somewhere), it is hard for me to see a way to substantially increase photosynthetic efficiency of ordinary vegetables to the point that it would be important to land use. What sort of photosynthetic conversion of solar to food energy is being achieved in these vertical farms?
