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I've come to the conclusion that vertical farming is uneconomic. It requires lighting, which costs money. The infrastructure is elaborate, too. I don't see how that is going to beat traditional farming.

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Indoor farming that works is greenhouse style farming, like in the netherlands, the second largest exporter in the world.

Isn't vertical farming just multistory greenhouses with artificial light?

One kind does VC hype waves followed by bankruptcy and the other kind allows one of the smallest countries in the world to be second top exporter. So there's some difference.

Yes, which removes the main benefit of greenhouse farming.

But not the only benefit I presume? And in scenarios where energy has a negative price using sun directly is no longer a benefit.

> I don't see how that is going to beat traditional farming.

After we've destroyed the environment enough traditional farming won't be an option.

I don’t subscribe to the doomsday ideology but even if I was, it’s hard to see it economically viable. Greenhouse farming is already viable for a lot of crops and would make a lot more sense if the environment no longer allowed for traditional farming.

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