What if “eating local” in Shanghai or New York meant getting your fresh produce from five blocks away? And what if skyscrapers grew off the grid, as verdant, self-sustaining towers where city slickers cultivated their own food? NYTimes
Its intriguing given the the vast knoweledge of aeroponics on the street today. But I suspect price per bushel is still lower than Dollars per square foot of prime manhatten realestate.
I am sure you are right EP.
However, given current food pricing trends and the pssibility of a carbon price set in the near future, nationally, if not internationally, it seems as if the cost differential could be changed favorably sometime soonish...
The thing is: if that differential changes in favor of the bushel, we're all doomed. That would mean the price of food is rising to meet the price of real estate. Major Fail.
The notion that these could work in Manhattan is absurd, maybe the outer boroughs, or a city that's only half full like Baltimore or Detroit. But not in Manhattan.
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Its intriguing given the the vast knoweledge of aeroponics on the street today. But I suspect price per bushel is still lower than Dollars per square foot of prime manhatten realestate.
I am sure you are right EP.
However, given current food pricing trends and the pssibility of a carbon price set in the near future, nationally, if not internationally, it seems as if the cost differential could be changed favorably sometime soonish...
The thing is: if that differential changes in favor of the bushel, we're all doomed. That would mean the price of food is rising to meet the price of real estate. Major Fail.
The notion that these could work in Manhattan is absurd, maybe the outer boroughs, or a city that's only half full like Baltimore or Detroit. But not in Manhattan.
765,
Your right if those two factors equalize we would have serious issues.....
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