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We can grow food anywhere on earth regardless of climate. The technology works. The economics have not caught up yet.
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We turned a steel mill in Newark into the world's largest vertical farm. Sometimes the future is built in abandoned factories.
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The SPAC fell through. The funding dried up. But the lettuce kept growing. Vertical farming will work. Just not yet.
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Dirt and sunshine are free. LED lights and climate control are not. That is the entire challenge of indoor farming.
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We proved vertical farming can produce beautiful food. We just could not produce it cheaply enough to compete with a field in California.
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Ninety-five percent less water. Zero pesticides. Year-round production. The problem was never the technology. It was the electricity bill.