Arable land. The issue is the vertical farms rely on jute fibers, which are farmed conventionally, and take up more land than the crops grown in the vertical farms normally would.
The article discusses some workarounds to this problem, but currently it’s another entry in the “technological solutions to climate change are predominantly scams” column.
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Arable land. The issue is the vertical farms rely on jute fibers, which are farmed conventionally, and take up more land than the crops grown in the vertical farms normally would.
The article discusses some workarounds to this problem, but currently it’s another entry in the “technological solutions to climate change are predominantly scams” column.