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Guest
May 19 2012 at 12:51 PM
"The answer to the problem, according to a company called Valcent, is to build our croplands like skyscrapers: straight up. "
How about we build our structures more vertical using less land and leave the farmland alone?

Paul
Mar 28 2012 at 1:23 PM
Nice idea, and I certainly can see uses for it, but it has nothing to do with farm land being paved over and lost. There is plenty of farmland. The US govt is [stupidly] paying for farmland to sit unused. Farmers try to produce more food with less land because it is more cost effective, increasing profitability, not because there is not enough land. This is more important than ever because govt interference has pushed costs up and pushed food prices down. In other places, poor farming techniques--whether
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through ignorance, or being too poor to implement them--have damaged the soil.

Guest
May 19 2012 at 12:53 PM
Perhaps it may have something to do with farmers being willing to sit on their butts and cop the cash the government pays them to bank land rather than get off their butts and farm it?

Charles Hodges
Apr 06 2010 at 5:42 PM
Reuters Video features Valcent's VertiCrop vertical farming system: http://bit.ly/a9p47W

Frank Zalko
Apr 06 2010 at 5:38 PM
"I can't think of any technology that addresses more urgent issues than Valcent's vertical farming system", says RFK Jr http://bit.ly/cPb00g

Dr. Angelito
Apr 07 2010 at 10:30 AM
see his video here: http://MercuryJustice.org
RFK Jr also supports ALGAE based Carbon Capture



















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