Friday, September 12, 2008

Vocabulary Quiz #1

1. What is the main idea of this article? Explain in detail.
2. Do you think vertical farming is a viable solution to the energy crisis?
3. What are your thoughts in general on the article?

I think that the main idea of this article is to tell people about the possibilities to become more earth friendly. This article shows that with a vertical farm food would not have to travel so far to get to the consumers.
I do not believe that the vertical farming is a good solution to the energy crisis, because although a of of pollution would be prevented from occurring there is a lot of other factors. The cost of the vertical farms is a determinant alone. Millions of dollars would need to be used to make the buildings. There is also the factor of how much money it would cost to make the building fertile, cultivate the building, and irrigate the building to add on to the initial cost as well. I also think that the cost to bring all of the materials into New York would cost alot of money, as well as importing more water into the city for irrigation then is already being imported. I think that alot of rules and laws would have to be codifyed to fit the needs of the new building, and its investors. I think that the possibility of having a more economicaly home would make alot of people more sedentary which is both good and bad.
I think that another major issue with verticle farming is that it would most likely domesticate alot of the animals be more comfterable around people, which is not neccecarly a good thing.
Overall I think that the idea of Vertical farming is still a primitve idea, I think that if it is to be accoplished alot more research and information has to be collected before idea can truley be presented again.

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