WSJ article on vert LED hydro
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$25,000 tops, and I can have it shipped do you for that price lol
weed-whacker
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supplemental CO2—all running on as little as 10 gallons of water and 80 kWh of energy per day.
can produce 48,568 marketable mini-heads of lettuce a year
at $80,000 each
so average price of electricity is 15c per KWH or 11 if comercial
average price to sell mini heads of lettuce
so if payin 11c per KWH then $3212 per year on lecky, assuming 1 man could run this as a full time gig and you sold mini-heads of lettuce for $1 each(dunno how likely that is thought seen as lettuce sells wholesale for about that per pound teh article says they sell for $1.25 but sound like BS to me) so say you spend another $356 on water and sewage
you are left with around 45k per year
then you need to buy nutrients, seeds media and ???
unless its a non-profit or you make money doing tours doesnt seem to add up
perhaps some one else can make sense of it?
can produce 48,568 marketable mini-heads of lettuce a year
at $80,000 each
so average price of electricity is 15c per KWH or 11 if comercial
average price to sell mini heads of lettuce
so if payin 11c per KWH then $3212 per year on lecky, assuming 1 man could run this as a full time gig and you sold mini-heads of lettuce for $1 each(dunno how likely that is thought seen as lettuce sells wholesale for about that per pound teh article says they sell for $1.25 but sound like BS to me) so say you spend another $356 on water and sewage
you are left with around 45k per year
then you need to buy nutrients, seeds media and ???
unless its a non-profit or you make money doing tours doesnt seem to add up
perhaps some one else can make sense of it?
Atulip
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Great implentations for the future. When we're out of farm space. Stacks of containers, just ride the lift to the door and tend your garden.
But their pricing probably reflects all the R&D and all that old tech leds. No idea how they expect to sell any considering you could make something yourself cheaper... even paying a contractor to do all the labor...
But their pricing probably reflects all the R&D and all that old tech leds. No idea how they expect to sell any considering you could make something yourself cheaper... even paying a contractor to do all the labor...
BOBBY_G
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as if. we're at the lowest utilization of farmland since WWII. USDA pays farmers not to farm to keep crop prices stable
Evil-Mobo
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And don't get me started on fucking Monsanto..........
churchhaze
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"acres’ worth of produce in a fraction of the space"
This is why hydro is so terrible for the environment, right? Fewer fields stripped of their natural habits means bad for the environment.