A prefabricated building expert and a vertical farming developer are joining up in a venture to improve the efficiency of vertical farming through better physics.
The venture is one of many across the world working on cracking the vertical farming nut, to make vertical farming potentially the main method through which we not only grow our food, but our materials, our fuels, even our medicines.
With advances in technology that are enabling the manipulation of plant DNA, we are already seeing small-scale examples of plants that are engineered to grow the particular chemicals or material elements we need to create everything from medicine to cars. Coupling this technology with bioprinting and 3D printing, and you begin to see a potential future where your local hospital has a vertical farm and processing center in one tower next to the hospital, growing and manufacturing most of its medicinal needs onsite with considerable reduction in expense.
Imagine being able to grow whatever resource you need, reducing the scarcity of significant ranges of chemicals and materials.
The fight ahead will be between technology developed through open source and technology developed behind Intellectual Property protocols. If you favor consensual exchange, you should favor the open-source side, as through this tech, not centrally controlled and rationed off in the form of monthly subscriptions, more and more human beings will be able to make decisions about their lives based on their preferences and not the party’s current year program.
