I guess the point is to be able to grow it in a desert, but I think it without still be cheaper and easier to grow it indoors hydroponically… Unless maybe it uses less water? But hydroponics can recycle all the water used so I don’t think that’s a huge advantage.
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cyd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Can be” is doing a lot of work in that title.
There are sound reasons to think that growing meat in the lab will eventually be more efficient than growing animals. You don’t have to support the metabolism of the whole animal and everything it eats. But lab grown vegetables? What’s the point?
Venat0r@lemmy.world 11 months ago
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Some of the water in hydroponics will be lost to evaporation, and some of it is also in the plant itself. With a good setup, you can probably recover a lot of the evaporated water, at least. Basically, think like a Fremen.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
In this case, growing them in Qutar, where agricultural land is at a premium.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Nuclear fusion “can be” possible
spittingimage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It says exactly what the point is in the article: reducing dependence on imports when there’s not enough arable land to feed a population.
cyd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Urban farming is the way to go for that. Modern crop plants are really very efficient organisms. It is highly doubtful that lab growing cells (which is hardly free of overhead) will be able to compete with that.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Urban farming . . . in Qatar?
But I agree that this should be compared with hydroponics system with efficient water recycling.