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Comment Does anyone do the math? (Score 4, Interesting) 267

Grow kale indoors... fine.

Now let’s grow soybeans? Say an acre of land is $10k and has free light and water and you get 60 bushels an acre of bean yield.
What’s a building water and power for light cost? Warehouse is 20$ a square foot by 43500 for an acre, $870k.
Now assume you can stack soybeans which grow 3’ or so 3 times in your warehouse. Assume you can get three crops a year. ( maybe a bit low, but soybeans are long season). Assume you get more yield, say 80 bushels.
So 240x3 gets us 720 bushel an acre yield or more than 10 times.

Unfortunately warehouse costs are 87 times higher and you have to pay for water and light.

Do city folk have no concept on how food is made?

Comment Re:Just in the US (Score 1) 312

Continents and drift weren’t discovered until 1912. So America is the giant island to the west of Europe.US of America. Add an “of” to any other country..,Mexico of America. Perfectly descriptive.
If you are standing in Europe basically everyone over there is an american, but one country put it in their name, so they now own it?

Comment Re:Would that be both North and South America ? (Score 1) 276

It’s a bit offensive to the rest of the people living in “the Americas” that one of the countries which has “of America” in it’s name has unilaterally claimed ownership and excluded everyone else from a whole hemisphere where they also live.

USian works for me.

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