I’m not imagining any problems. The difficulties I’ve outlined are genuine issues that have to be addressed. I think you’d be surprised to learn how much difference there is between a thing existing and it actually operating efficiently.

“Based on an analysis we did for a large private-equity firm, we don’t actually see a scenario where in the next 10 years vertical farming will compete with field-grown at scale in North America,”

Vertical farming usually uses LED lighting, not direct sunlight.

That’s one method of bringing"sunlight" to plants. Another would be to grow them outside.

And I think the idea is that once the water is present on a given level it gets recirculated and reprocessed there, so it wouldn’t need much additional pumping.

Even if all you do is pump all the water from the floor of each level to the ceiling of the respective level, you’ve done the exact same amount of work as pumping all the water for the top floor back to the roof in the first place. Only you’ve done it with a hundred pumps and a hundred times the points of failure and repair rate as a single pump for the entire building.

You’d be so much farther ahead to just install a reservoir on the roof that gets filled by a single pump and let gravity feed the lower floors. Much the way we already do for flat farming.

And then you’ve got to make up for the inefficiencies lost in planting and harvesting. Vertical farming brings nothing to the table except a smaller footprint in a world where that’s not a real advantage.

A far better use of empty office buildings would be to convert much of the space into full-time living space.

The problem is a constant fight against gravity. You’ve still got to pump the water effectively to the top of the building every day. And there’s still the issue of getting sunlight to the plants.

The question really becomes whether it’s more economical to just use traditional irrigation techniques upstream and ship the produce in vs converting a skyscraper into a very inefficient farm space.

Early Access karma whoring.

They weren’t.

I’m not a troll. You’re a hypocrite.

But if your oppressor is LGBTQ+ and oppressing you for being LGBTQ+ it is “rules for thee…”

Yes. He is "rules for thee…"ing you.

But when you out him you become the one not abiding by your own rules. Twice. Once for the outing, because you don’t want to be outed. And again for not holding yourself to your own standard of not having rules that don’t apply to you.

I don’t think we should be defending the rights of an oppressor over the rights of the oppressed.

If you think that some people don’t deserve to have their rights protected, then you are the oppressor.

I cannot decipher your actual stance.

I can’t fathom why, when I’ve stated it multiple times in the clearest possibly English.

Don’t out anyone. No exceptions.

If you make exceptions then it’s you who is creating “rules for thee…”

That is actually a different thing. And I agree, but you still shouldn’t be outing them.

It’s called none of your business. You can’t expect someone to adhere to a standard you refuse to recognize. It’s classic, “Rules for thee…”

Wrong. You don’t have to tolerate bigotry to respect sexual privacy. You have no argument.

I must agree with all of that. But, it still doesn’t excuse outing anyone.

No, definitely not me.

Literally no one is saying that anywhere.

https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/598062/-/comment/3362718

You don’t have to apologize. Your silence will suffice.

You seem to be thinking that just cuz someone is LGBTQ that makes them a good person inside.

You don’t have to speculate about what I think. I’ve explicitly stated it on clear and uncertain terms. A person’s sexuality is their own private business and there’s no reason to be outing anyone.

Your reading comprehension is shit.

I don’t think you have demonstrated enough reading comprehension to sit in judgement.

Typical Redditor. Thinking every insult is ad hominem. You don’t get to start throwing insults around and not expect some in return.

No one is saying that it is ok that he was outed.

Plenty of people are saying exactly that. Are you reading a different thread?

Do u get it now, junior?

Go back to Reddit, you muppet.

Dressing in drag doesn’t give him a pass.

I don’t see anyone making that argument. What I do see is people saying that being conservative removes your pass to be queer. And that’s just atrocious.

This is classic conservative rules for thee bullshit.

This is anti-conservatives sinking to the level of conservative rules for thee bullshit.

You’re literally saying “it’s ok to be queer, unless…” Either it’s ok, it it’s not. Spoiler alert, it’s fucking ok.

You don’t get to be a bigot and then expect privacy in your own life.

You have it exactly backwards though. You don’t get to expect privacy in your own life if you refuse to respect the privacy of others.

Also, why would you fight bigotry by demeaning the very thing they oppose with their bigotry? You’re only adding fuel to the fire.

I think there is a good argument to be made

I’m sorry, but I must vehemently disagree. There is absolutely no reason to discuss publicly someone’s private sexual preferences. Otherwise, you have the society they want where witch-hunts can be started over rumors.

there is also a trend of labeling any homophobic politician as being in the closet

That is also bad, and should not be tolerated.