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Lots of indoor farms are shutting down as their businesses struggle. So why are more being built? (apnews.com)

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[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Cereal crops are just the information that's easily available. It's not a perfect comparison, but still, 5 orders of magnitude is a shocking result. That's the average American's daily commute distance vs the distance to Venus. Any reasonable use of indoor farming must somehow overcome how mindbogglingly energy intensive it is.