@@jamescampbell1170 Yeah, I wish all schools were like my local one - students CAN influence the curriculum there... 6 hours a week are dedicated to specific STEAM classes (in the junior curriculum), and obviously most other classes are STEAM...
If there are any abandoned skyscrapers in a city, it should be converted to a vertical farm. Not only would it provide jobs to the people living in the vicinity, it would also decrease prices and use less land for farms and more for forests.
Even more common in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Pittsburgh and other formerly industrial cities are abandoned sprawling multi-story factory buildings that are not practical for anything else. Chicago I know has some vertical farms with more on the way.
@@Miquelalalaa Lucky for you the global population will likely stabilise at around 10 billion in 2050. Malthusian concerns of overpopulation are overblown when you consider the facts.
I have built a hydroponic racks in my yard. Eating freshly harvested food is the best thing! I also shared them to my neighbors and some of them started building theirs as well.
We have a vertical farm in Härnösand, Sweden, that grows tomatoes and lettuce. It’s also a ecocycle plant with bees and salmons, all using each other’s waste-products. Although the energy consumption crazy high it’s a pretty cool idea.
In the back on my mind whenever I watch one of your videos I low key want to get into the architectural type industry, this stuff is genuinely interesting.
I'm So glad you did a video on this. The impact cities have on tearing apart the earth to feed its appetites for tech toys and food goes largely overlooked. Hydroponics and aquaponics are one small facet which can help to reign them in and create sustainability and preservation of this tiny earth we live on.
It's great that we can witness the development of alternative energy sources, SynBio and the optimization of existing areas such as agriculture. We think it will make our world a little better.
I can't see a bad video that comes out from your channel, also this one is superb, and I would really like to see vertical farms become more popular in order to save space and resources... thank you :)
You clearly live in a city - in australia you can drive for days and see no buildings, so where is this limited space. You really need to travel to open ur eyes to the vastness of this world
@@vitaliphotos not everyone can come to Australia to produce for their country some countries are very densely populated with less land while some are less populated and have more land
I'm from the very small island of st kitts in the Caribbean, with a relatively small population under (60 thousand people) something like this would be a wonderful idea. Running on power from year round sunshine aswell as wind energy I think it's a very viable idea. Creating jobs, for many, also because space on the island is finite building high would be very benifical.
Ever since i saw Kimbal Musk (Elon Musk's brother) doing this I've been interested in it. I don't plan to pursue this interest, but i really like the aesthetics of it, and benefits it brings :D
This is a great help for me as a student because I can add this as an innovation for my incoming thesis project which is an agricultural facilities that focuses on the community of farmers that would help their progress in society. THANK YOU B1M MORE POWER!
I'm so proud to like that video because the vertical farm idea was mine. Another Idea, let's use the exterior part of those buildings to make farm and we may live inside the buildings. by that way, we may use the oxygen release by those plants to supply the person living inside.
Yeah, it's good to makes plan for the next our children generation, for myself, I've started to approach vertical system, but still on hobby scale, 300 hole pot, hope I can also contribute to my neighborhood
Awesome! I will continue to love this channel more and more for quality contents. This method of modern farming inspires me a lot. We need such in Africa.
I'm a vertical farmer and I love it! The lettuce we grow stays fresh longer when anything I've every bought in the passed. The whole plant growing process is very rewarding!
@@PaulHagmueller I'm optimistic. Regular farming is and will continue to be more efficient and this vertical farming will never be more efficient. Look for my comments around here.
@@magnificentgoldenbeast6099 there are no comments from you around here Plus If regular farming continues to be the go-to method for producing food humanity is doomed. Forests would have to be converted to farmland, leaving forests as rare biomes. This would increase climate change, thus the potential for droughts and such would rise. Not very smart.
@@PaulHagmueller The video is total bullshit. And I'm not talking about the fertilizer. Totally economically unfeasible now or in 200 years. People are abandoning the countryside to live in densely populated cities and suburbs. Farmlands are being abandoned because of how efficient we are at farming the land we have. Towns are emptying and people are moving to densely populated areas where the property is too expensive for vertical farming. The global supply chain is becoming even bigger and makes it efficient to bring food from where it's grown to anywhere it's wanted so storms and wars and droughts and insects have little effect on the supply of any food. You want food; throw down some seeds and water and fertilizer and pesticide and it appears. Do that enough and you can defeat any adversity to plant life. Build vertical farms and they are expensive and require infrastructure and planning and utilities and zoning approval and ...
Okay, so I don't claim to be any kind of farming expert, but it seems to me the most important crops we need to be able to grow this way are the ones that require vast areas of land, such as grains and maybe starchy root vegetables like potatoes. The things I was able to identify in this video seemed to be mostly "salad ingredients." If we could grow our grains and starches in this type of environment, then we could also eliminate poisonous pesticides and herbicides on a greater percentage of the foods we're consuming. That's what I'm interested in!
Another great video. I'd be interested to know how much of these farms electricity usage is provided by renewable means? These farms must use a lot of power.
I really like the idea and I see the benefits. But on point I want to mention. How this farming gets done and how it gets used is important, because we shouldn't forget what is the fontation of all vegetables. Clean and fertile soil is were it all comes from. We should also protect and honour the good old soil.
Most of the soil these days are far from fertile. Not because it's grown in a closed environment with a different medium than soil it is bad. Actually a lot of organic and high quality vegetables, fruits and herbs are produced in vertical farms and they are far better than anyone produced in the soil.
love your channel. One note on this specific video: pests are not removed as a result of being indoors. In fact, in many vertical farms, pests are worse than outdoors due to the perfect climatic conditions. Ideally, a perfect exclusion method would work, however, even with thrips screening we see pest intrusion. I really hope this is a trend that continues, however, the success of vertical farms beyond two or three years is rare.
People seem to think that this replaces field crops. The only crops which it makes sense for is salads, due to their low height, quick growth, poor shelf life, difficult quality standards, and high water content which make hauling too costly. This is a very small fraction of the food we eat and we still need to produce more. All of the crops grown in vertical farms were already being grown in greenhouses with controlled environments, the only substantive difference is that more electricity is being used for lights
The issue with vertical farming is always one of cost. It's the same reason we grow crops in an open field rather than giant greenhouses. When your temperature controlled, lighting controlled, humidity controlled, racked, multi-story, solar powered building can be replaced with "some dirt in a field" it's not cost effective at scale. The yields are better the same way yields in greenhouses is better. It's always cheaper to just get more dirt and expand outwards. Vertical farms are good for ultra-low volume, high cost crops in niche applications but it'll probably never be cost effective for bulk, industrial farming unless the cost of building decreases dramatically.
The fact that there are successful vertical farming businesses proves that it can be cost effective. Over time the cost of vertical farming will decrease and the demand will increase. We will eventually see large-scale industrial vertical farming.
@@sgbench Why? We see the same kind of success with traditional greenhouses. They're good for niche applications because the increased yield offsets the extra cost of building and running the greenhouse but that inherent cost makes them unsuitable for industrial-scale applications. I don't see why that would change just because you've added extra stories and complexity to that greenhouse (and thus more cost). Vertical farming will no doubt grow the same way the greenhouse farming scene has. For example: I can quite easily see vertical farms taking over growing flowers to simplify the supply chain. Just like traditional greenhouses that inherent extra cost though is always going to be a limiting factor. After all, we grow the crops we do on that scale specifically because they're easy to grow in bulk on cheap land. For industrial farms for who things like soil quality, temperature, pH and whatnot are not big limiting factors (corn, wheat, potatoes, etc.) it's far more cost effective to buy lots of cheap land than it is to buy a little bit of very expensive land and build a very expensive facility on top of that. Hell, if quality of land is an issue like it is with rice it's still more cost effective to irrigate the aforementioned cheap land than it is to build a tiered facility that accomplishes the same task. Local demand for long life crops is simply a non-factor. I think people dramatically underestimate the scale of true industrial farms and the cost of building structures plentiful and massive enough to replace them. Dirt is just cheaper than steel and glass. Probably always will be.
@@Super_Unlucky_Rubber_Ducky Yes, expanding outward is currently cheaper than expanding upward, but we will eventually run out of arable land, and when that happens our only choice will be to expand upward. It is inevitable that vertical farming will eventually be the norm. Just because it's not as cost effective now doesn't mean we should dismiss it. Why scoff at the people trying to develop the technology now?
@@sgbench Because we're nowhere near running out of suitable land, there are other more cost effective approaches and the kind of structures nessisary to replace industrial farms simply aren't practical. *If* we run out of suitable land the most cost effective approach currently is to make more. Either by irrigation, fertilisation or by modifying the crops themselves. In my country of Australia we do this with rice, employing mass irrigation to turn cattle stations into rice fields. There was recently a whole uproar about it because they killed a whole bunch of fish in the process. Even ignoring that, modifying crops to make or grow in environments they otherwise wouldn't is still more cost effective as would taking traditional farmland and building a greenhouse to increase yields. Something we don't do now because the scale of industrial farms makes them so even that is far too large an investment to be cost effective. I think people underestimate the scale of industrial farms. We're not talking about warehouse sized facilities. Industrial farms are massive institutions larger even than the cities they feed. Vertical farming is great for niche applications the same way greenhouse are. The same things that prevent greenhouses from replacing traditional farmland are only amplified in vertical farms though. They're simply not practical beyond very specific situations.
@@Super_Unlucky_Rubber_Ducky I think you're misunderstanding my argument. All I'm saying is that you're wrong that vertical farming will never be cost effective. Vertical farming will eventually be our only option, and so it will by definition be cost effective, because the cost of the alternatives will be too high for them to be considered options. Also, I think you're underestimating GMO R&D costs and overestimating construction costs. Also, "industrial scale" (a vague and arbitrary threshold btw) greenhouses definitely exist and are profitable, for example in Spain and the Netherlands.
Another astonishing, entertaining, and over all fantastic video! The issue that were discussed in this video really make me as an individual think about how technology and innovative solutions will positively impact our future on the planet! Thanks for the great video and I hope to see more content of this type on the channel soon! 👍😍 Also it would be great to see if in the future that the idea of vertical farms could be brought down to a smaller scale in order to allow individual and family to grow their own produce with the home!
Vertical farming is very interesting idea which is applicable for dense population cities with high demands of good and healthy foods supplies but lack or limited soil available. I hope we can see more of this facilities near the future😉
Not only would this reduce continued pollution of the water and air, but this would provide good, healthy, and affordable food to urban areas and reduce food deserts of poorer neighborhoods.
I swear I just love this channel. .but I am still sad to find out quite late about this channel. .Thank you so much to the team of this channel. .you guys are doing amazing job by educating people about different topics all over the world...I have always been interested in green home. .vertical farming. ..Green energy and eco economical friendly. I am watching this video after two years. .quite sad. .but anyway better be late then never. .anyway can anyone tell me the name of the music in the video. It's just awesome and cool relaxing to listen. ..thanks
It seems that most vertical farming hinges around leafy crop, tomatoes and cucumber and a few more. Are there any vertical growers who tackle the larger vegetables, zuchinis, brocolli, cauliflowers, potatoes, carrots, corn, sweet potatoes, etc...?
Its funny how they use solar panels to get energy for their lighting systems inside the "farm"... but anyway, I`m a big fan of this concept and I can't wait til it gets more famous and common!
For those of you questioning how will the energy intensive high density of LEDs be overcome - well think about it - how can you transfer light into a building? Use optic fibres. There are innovations such as the Parans lighting system. Plus, solar panels could be installed on a VF warehouse roof. That would reduce energy requirement of LEDs during the day - even though LEDs and red and blue ones are more efficient, compared to more traditional electric lighting sources.
This channel always restores my faith in humanity
Faith in scientifically illiterate journalism...
@balazskecskemeti I don't necessarily disagree, do explain though.
I'm in year 10 in school and in my STEM class I have been creating an automatic vertical farmbot so this is awsome
You mean one of those spiders from the matrix movies?
Are you making it at school or in your own time?
Why STEM, and not STEAM??? Art is more important than all of those other things, you know. It's the basis of culture, and therefore society....
@@cuddliestbear265 I wish, unfortunately since I'm just a student I can't make the curriculum or thigh art is my other elective
@@jamescampbell1170 Yeah, I wish all schools were like my local one - students CAN influence the curriculum there... 6 hours a week are dedicated to specific STEAM classes (in the junior curriculum), and obviously most other classes are STEAM...
If there are any abandoned skyscrapers in a city, it should be converted to a vertical farm. Not only would it provide jobs to the people living in the vicinity, it would also decrease prices and use less land for farms and more for forests.
Agreed! This skyscraper would be a great candidate - ua-cam.com/video/65ufokJuhYs/v-deo.html
Pripyat would be a great vertical farm if the radiation was gone.
Even more common in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Pittsburgh and other formerly industrial cities are abandoned sprawling multi-story factory buildings that are not practical for anything else. Chicago I know has some vertical farms with more on the way.
Additionally, abandoned factories and warehouses in urban areas could easily be repurposed as food growing factories and oxygen emitters.
@@leaderofthelewishpeople6382 unfortunately concrete holds radiation really well so not really doable
If we use these vertical farms we can convert the former outdoor farmland into forest. Reducing emissions even more!
We should convert them into housing for new immigrants.
@@Miquelalalaa How inefficient. Just build more housing on top of the vertical farms?!?!?
vks_ We will be stuffed in like sardines if we continue with the current rates. It needs to end...
@@Miquelalalaa Lucky for you the global population will likely stabilise at around 10 billion in 2050. Malthusian concerns of overpopulation are overblown when you consider the facts.
@@Miquelalalaa genocide helps i guess
I have built a hydroponic racks in my yard. Eating freshly harvested food is the best thing!
I also shared them to my neighbors and some of them started building theirs as well.
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We asked for it and you delivered. That's why I love this channel.
Haha, you’re welcome! 😉
We have a vertical farm in Härnösand, Sweden, that grows tomatoes and lettuce. It’s also a ecocycle plant with bees and salmons, all using each other’s waste-products. Although the energy consumption crazy high it’s a pretty cool idea.
In the back on my mind whenever I watch one of your videos I low key want to get into the architectural type industry, this stuff is genuinely interesting.
This rapidly became one of my favorite UA-cam channels ❤️
Thank you so much! ✊️✊️
I'm So glad you did a video on this. The impact cities have on tearing apart the earth to feed its appetites for tech toys and food goes largely overlooked. Hydroponics and aquaponics are one small facet which can help to reign them in and create sustainability and preservation of this tiny earth we live on.
It's great that we can witness the development of alternative energy sources, SynBio and the optimization of existing areas such as agriculture. We think it will make our world a little better.
Your channel is extremely underrated! I'm always learning something new whenever you bring out new videos. Keep it up!
i dont even know why but between the narration, the music and the abundance of green, this video is very calming
I can't see a bad video that comes out from your channel, also this one is superb, and I would really like to see vertical farms become more popular in order to save space and resources... thank you :)
You clearly live in a city - in australia you can drive for days and see no buildings, so where is this limited space. You really need to travel to open ur eyes to the vastness of this world
@no one so you're saying fewer ppl should live in cities so as vertical farming can expand?
Same, though the cost is extraordinary
@@vitaliphotos not everyone can come to Australia to produce for their country
some countries are very densely populated with less land while some are less populated and have more land
Was not aware of this concept until viewing this report - Thanks B1M !!
You're welcome!
Amazing video.
Keep doing good things guyz
This channel is so underrated
It's not underrated. Almost every video has an extremely good like to dislike ratio. It may however be less popular than it deserves to be.
I really enjoy these videos, if it’s at all possible I’d love to see a B1M and Real Engineering collaboration
Brian is a great guy! We’d be honoured! 👍👍
Great video!!! I think this is the future in all honesty. You are a big inspiration for my channel! Thanks for the great everything!
Very illuminating. Well Done. "Growing Trend" - Like it.
Fantastic video. Glad to see this idea taking shape
This entire sequence from 1:59 had me hooked. Incredible work!
excellent topic and presentation,, thank you for posting
You’re welcome! Thanks for the great feedback 👍👍
You guys provide the highest quality videos I love these!
I'm from the very small island of st kitts in the Caribbean, with a relatively small population under (60 thousand people) something like this would be a wonderful idea. Running on power from year round sunshine aswell as wind energy I think it's a very viable idea. Creating jobs, for many, also because space on the island is finite building high would be very benifical.
Then The future will be minecraft auto farms?
As soon as I saw what the farms looked like I came to the comments to look for Minecraft lol.
Crazy to think that Minecraft has been the future along
That's not the future, that's now.
well, we just need one more thing.. *Bonemeal*
Maickel Vieira yes yes It would
Ever since i saw Kimbal Musk (Elon Musk's brother) doing this I've been interested in it. I don't plan to pursue this interest, but i really like the aesthetics of it, and benefits it brings :D
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@@abdurazaksiciid1440 What
His space program is a lot better than his big brothers, I couldn't even get SpaceX to install.
Flash 🇿🇦 his son went to my school
This is a great help for me as a student because I can add this as an innovation for my incoming thesis project which is an agricultural facilities that focuses on the community of farmers that would help their progress in society. THANK YOU B1M MORE POWER!
You’re welcome! Good luck with the project!! ✊️✊️
Thanks to the B1M team for creating awareness of sustainable agriculture with a great video!
I'm so proud to like that video because the vertical farm idea was mine. Another Idea, let's use the exterior part of those buildings to make farm and we may live inside the buildings. by that way, we may use the oxygen release by those plants to supply the person living inside.
Yeah, it's good to makes plan for the next our children generation, for myself, I've started to approach vertical system, but still on hobby scale, 300 hole pot, hope I can also contribute to my neighborhood
Great video love this channel
Wow! This seems like a pretty awesome idea. Can't wait to see these in a city near me 👌👏👏
Awesome! I will continue to love this channel more and more for quality contents. This method of modern farming inspires me a lot. We need such in Africa.
The fruit looks so beautiful and appetizing!
I'm a vertical farmer and I love it! The lettuce we grow stays fresh longer when anything I've every bought in the passed. The whole plant growing process is very rewarding!
I always thought of vertical farming as the future!
This video is amazing! You guys are my top inspiration to work in construction or architecture in the future. Thanks for the informative content :)
Ah wow! We are truly humbled to read that! Thanks so much for watching!!!
Thanks for the video, like always it is a very good one.
Ideas are FLOWING through my head RN!!!!!!
Thanks for your excellent report on this promising technology.
You're welcome - thanks for watching!!
great video, this topic needs funding and development.
No! Never will work. Not economically feasible see: my other comments.
@@magnificentgoldenbeast6099 not yet. Technology improves, you know. Be a little optimistic!
@@PaulHagmueller I'm optimistic. Regular farming is and will continue to be more efficient and this vertical farming will never be more efficient. Look for my comments around here.
@@magnificentgoldenbeast6099 there are no comments from you around here
Plus
If regular farming continues to be the go-to method for producing food humanity is doomed. Forests would have to be converted to farmland, leaving forests as rare biomes. This would increase climate change, thus the potential for droughts and such would rise. Not very smart.
@@PaulHagmueller The video is total bullshit. And I'm not talking about the fertilizer. Totally economically unfeasible now or in 200 years. People are abandoning the countryside to live in densely populated cities and suburbs. Farmlands are being abandoned because of how efficient we are at farming the land we have. Towns are emptying and people are moving to densely populated areas where the property is too expensive for vertical farming. The global supply chain is becoming even bigger and makes it efficient to bring food from where it's grown to anywhere it's wanted so storms and wars and droughts and insects have little effect on the supply of any food. You want food; throw down some seeds and water and fertilizer and pesticide and it appears. Do that enough and you can defeat any adversity to plant life. Build vertical farms and they are expensive and require infrastructure and planning and utilities and zoning approval and ...
Okay, so I don't claim to be any kind of farming expert, but it seems to me the most important crops we need to be able to grow this way are the ones that require vast areas of land, such as grains and maybe starchy root vegetables like potatoes. The things I was able to identify in this video seemed to be mostly "salad ingredients."
If we could grow our grains and starches in this type of environment, then we could also eliminate poisonous pesticides and herbicides on a greater percentage of the foods we're consuming. That's what I'm interested in!
It's impossible to produce anything of real food value (ie. calories) under artificial light in a sustainable way. It's simple physics and biology.
This is the kind of video that I hope to see more and more on this channel, great fan.
Another amazing video. Thanks guys!
Thank you so much!
This is my favorite channel on UA-cam.
Wow! That’s so cool. Thank you SO much! 👍
And then we can finally convert back all the acres of forest land that was destroyed to create vast fields. It's a win-win for EVERYONE!
That I would like to see. Bring back biodiversity, or should I say, make biodiversity great again. :-)
Excellent video So important to us now Thank you very much 👍
B1M is actually such an educstional channel I love it keep up the good work
I always liked the idea that the big out of town supermarkets could utilise the space and roof real estate to grow their own fresh produce.
Another great video. I'd be interested to know how much of these farms electricity usage is provided by renewable means? These farms must use a lot of power.
I'm in love with this vertical farming
Innovation never stops. Enjoy!!
I like this channel. Very imfomative and is well done. The video quality is also great. This is the only channel so for that I have notifications on.
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@@burinvoyager8964 I will look that up. Thank you
wow this was helpful for my work
I really like the idea and I see the benefits. But on point I want to mention. How this farming gets done and how it gets used is important, because we shouldn't forget what is the fontation of all vegetables. Clean and fertile soil is were it all comes from. We should also protect and honour the good old soil.
Most of the soil these days are far from fertile. Not because it's grown in a closed environment with a different medium than soil it is bad. Actually a lot of organic and high quality vegetables, fruits and herbs are produced in vertical farms and they are far better than anyone produced in the soil.
Great content as always!
Thank you so much!!
Incredibly awesome and informative Video, as we are used to the B1M already. Great Work, keep it up!
A channel that’s finally paying attention to this!!
Quality content as usual
really awesome video. this is why i come to youtube, to learn and see randomness that i never actually thought of.
Great work guys!
Thank you!!
Are you gonna make a video about 'the farmhouse'?
Would be really interesting! Anyways, your video was really great. Loved it!
Woah, this is amazing! Every farmer should have this, even Farmer Brown
Don't tell farmers what to do, maybe you should have it yourself.
love your channel. One note on this specific video: pests are not removed as a result of being indoors. In fact, in many vertical farms, pests are worse than outdoors due to the perfect climatic conditions. Ideally, a perfect exclusion method would work, however, even with thrips screening we see pest intrusion. I really hope this is a trend that continues, however, the success of vertical farms beyond two or three years is rare.
Why is the success rare?
People seem to think that this replaces field crops. The only crops which it makes sense for is salads, due to their low height, quick growth, poor shelf life, difficult quality standards, and high water content which make hauling too costly. This is a very small fraction of the food we eat and we still need to produce more. All of the crops grown in vertical farms were already being grown in greenhouses with controlled environments, the only substantive difference is that more electricity is being used for lights
The issue with vertical farming is always one of cost.
It's the same reason we grow crops in an open field rather than giant greenhouses. When your temperature controlled, lighting controlled, humidity controlled, racked, multi-story, solar powered building can be replaced with "some dirt in a field" it's not cost effective at scale. The yields are better the same way yields in greenhouses is better. It's always cheaper to just get more dirt and expand outwards. Vertical farms are good for ultra-low volume, high cost crops in niche applications but it'll probably never be cost effective for bulk, industrial farming unless the cost of building decreases dramatically.
The fact that there are successful vertical farming businesses proves that it can be cost effective. Over time the cost of vertical farming will decrease and the demand will increase. We will eventually see large-scale industrial vertical farming.
@@sgbench Why? We see the same kind of success with traditional greenhouses. They're good for niche applications because the increased yield offsets the extra cost of building and running the greenhouse but that inherent cost makes them unsuitable for industrial-scale applications. I don't see why that would change just because you've added extra stories and complexity to that greenhouse (and thus more cost). Vertical farming will no doubt grow the same way the greenhouse farming scene has. For example: I can quite easily see vertical farms taking over growing flowers to simplify the supply chain. Just like traditional greenhouses that inherent extra cost though is always going to be a limiting factor.
After all, we grow the crops we do on that scale specifically because they're easy to grow in bulk on cheap land. For industrial farms for who things like soil quality, temperature, pH and whatnot are not big limiting factors (corn, wheat, potatoes, etc.) it's far more cost effective to buy lots of cheap land than it is to buy a little bit of very expensive land and build a very expensive facility on top of that. Hell, if quality of land is an issue like it is with rice it's still more cost effective to irrigate the aforementioned cheap land than it is to build a tiered facility that accomplishes the same task.
Local demand for long life crops is simply a non-factor. I think people dramatically underestimate the scale of true industrial farms and the cost of building structures plentiful and massive enough to replace them. Dirt is just cheaper than steel and glass. Probably always will be.
@@Super_Unlucky_Rubber_Ducky Yes, expanding outward is currently cheaper than expanding upward, but we will eventually run out of arable land, and when that happens our only choice will be to expand upward. It is inevitable that vertical farming will eventually be the norm. Just because it's not as cost effective now doesn't mean we should dismiss it. Why scoff at the people trying to develop the technology now?
@@sgbench Because we're nowhere near running out of suitable land, there are other more cost effective approaches and the kind of structures nessisary to replace industrial farms simply aren't practical.
*If* we run out of suitable land the most cost effective approach currently is to make more. Either by irrigation, fertilisation or by modifying the crops themselves. In my country of Australia we do this with rice, employing mass irrigation to turn cattle stations into rice fields. There was recently a whole uproar about it because they killed a whole bunch of fish in the process. Even ignoring that, modifying crops to make or grow in environments they otherwise wouldn't is still more cost effective as would taking traditional farmland and building a greenhouse to increase yields. Something we don't do now because the scale of industrial farms makes them so even that is far too large an investment to be cost effective.
I think people underestimate the scale of industrial farms. We're not talking about warehouse sized facilities. Industrial farms are massive institutions larger even than the cities they feed. Vertical farming is great for niche applications the same way greenhouse are. The same things that prevent greenhouses from replacing traditional farmland are only amplified in vertical farms though. They're simply not practical beyond very specific situations.
@@Super_Unlucky_Rubber_Ducky I think you're misunderstanding my argument. All I'm saying is that you're wrong that vertical farming will never be cost effective. Vertical farming will eventually be our only option, and so it will by definition be cost effective, because the cost of the alternatives will be too high for them to be considered options. Also, I think you're underestimating GMO R&D costs and overestimating construction costs. Also, "industrial scale" (a vague and arbitrary threshold btw) greenhouses definitely exist and are profitable, for example in Spain and the Netherlands.
I would love to start my own vertical farm!
It's easy! just some 3 inch pipes, a water pump, a plastic container, 5 mm rubber hose and all set.
Great video!
Thanks!
I love this farming platform....I feel like creating a business too
I work with aquaponics farming. It's super cool stuff. :)
Another astonishing, entertaining, and over all fantastic video! The issue that were discussed in this video really make me as an individual think about how technology and innovative solutions will positively impact our future on the planet! Thanks for the great video and I hope to see more content of this type on the channel soon! 👍😍
Also it would be great to see if in the future that the idea of vertical farms could be brought down to a smaller scale in order to allow individual and family to grow their own produce with the home!
Fascinating
I would love to try this out on a smaller scale
Vertical farming is very interesting idea which is applicable for dense population cities with high demands of good and healthy foods supplies but lack or limited soil available. I hope we can see more of this facilities near the future😉
A very good development for the reasons mentioned. Also think of doing it outside of this planet. Great stuff!
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THIS IS THE FUTURE.
I LIKE TO KNOW MORE DETAILS ABOUT VERTIAL FORMING.
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I love u B1M! Continue posting great content
I'd love to work at a Studio NAB facility. It looks really nice!
Absolutely makes sense where you can't rely on the weather to yield good crops, but CAN rely on the weather for renewable energy.
Innovation is more than a trend.
Not only would this reduce continued pollution of the water and air, but this would provide good, healthy, and affordable food to urban areas and reduce food deserts of poorer neighborhoods.
Good stuff as always.
I swear I just love this channel. .but I am still sad to find out quite late about this channel. .Thank you so much to the team of this channel. .you guys are doing amazing job by educating people about different topics all over the world...I have always been interested in green home. .vertical farming. ..Green energy and eco economical friendly. I am watching this video after two years. .quite sad. .but anyway better be late then never. .anyway can anyone tell me the name of the music in the video. It's just awesome and cool relaxing to listen. ..thanks
outstanding video
your research
developing this video
= it most appreciated and valued
as always many thanks for your continuation of quality videos
Thank you so much!! 👍👍
It seems that most vertical farming hinges around leafy crop, tomatoes and cucumber and a few more. Are there any vertical growers who tackle the larger vegetables, zuchinis, brocolli, cauliflowers, potatoes, carrots, corn, sweet potatoes, etc...?
Super interesting topic!
It just works
Great video keep it up!
Wow! We too think that vertical farms are the future of agriculture, we definitely support such innovations.
Another amazing video, Keep up the good work, I enjoy your top notch content ;)
Nice video! We learned so much from this.
I'm sure these techniques will be much more mainstream 10 years from now
Its funny how they use solar panels to get energy for their lighting systems inside the "farm"... but anyway, I`m a big fan of this concept and I can't wait til it gets more famous and common!
Well written script. Great content. Well done.
Thank you so much! Thanks for watching! 👍
Très intéresant.Merci beaucoup pour partager B1M.
Dear team, Thanks for the great video, can you provide one video that will show steps of vertical farming?
More of the same with more details certainly will be nice. Thanks
For those of you questioning how will the energy intensive high density of LEDs be overcome - well think about it - how can you transfer light into a building? Use optic fibres. There are innovations such as the Parans lighting system. Plus, solar panels could be installed on a VF warehouse roof. That would reduce energy requirement of LEDs during the day - even though LEDs and red and blue ones are more efficient, compared to more traditional electric lighting sources.
we grow alot of our greens at our backyard which is great people should do the same
Fantastic