As someone from a tiny urban nation and little landmass for agriculture (Singapore), this series on Vertical Farming has been extremely fascinating and relevant for me. Thank you so very much.
Hey Exa! I’ve been coaching a friend of mine in Nepal who’s built a large in-home unit oriented towards mushrooms, which naturally grow short in height, don’t require as much light, and can approach 100% edible mass. They made it to the Top 40 (out of 25k teams) at the Hult Prize, the world’s biggest entrepreneurship competition, just a week ago. Happy to discuss.
I literally did the math for a project once, and, in the best case, it really does only take about the space of a washer/dryer stack (~2 m3) to provide enough calories for one person. Now, that was a single product, and averaged out the harvesting structure across a much larger volume, but it is still really cool to consider in home vertical farms.
A room dedicated to food production would be amazing. Grew enough sweet potatoes, watermelons and squash this year using traditional means to cover about 1/5 of me and my girlfriends diet, and could absolutely do more if using vertical, more efficient crops.
I've been at it too! Built myself a system at home using my aquarium. Scaled it up to a 400sqft backyard farm adjacent to the house! Working on building various models now, allowing custom home based systems for everyone!
A helpful metric might also be comparing the number of farms in production from year to year. It wouldn't be definitive, as size matters, but I think the best result of this industry is getting farms into city centers. It would interesting to know what cities are getting new farms.
Your previous videos really inspired me, I have been trialing my own Organic home production using soil as well. The premise is I have a mushroom farm and chickens, plus my soil based farm that I am trying to swap over to cover crop like alfalfa as a fodder/worm food. So when the mushroom substrate is spent, I throw it in with a chicken coop, they manure on it, then it rests until it goes into the worm bin, then into a pasteurization pile, then mixed with 33.3% with coco coir, and 33.3% mushroom sawdust substrate. The mushroom substrate being a living organism will bind the other substrate together into a plug, so I dont need a net cup, and it reduces the amount of debris. I then place these into NFT gutters. The reason I have obsessed about this is I do not own my own farm, so I've spent thousands on soil ammendments and had to walk away from my development. This way I have a recycling system and if I ever have to move, i can hire a dump truck and remove all the compost piles and worm bins to the next location. Also soil, while it requires filter, the nice thing about it is if there is a water issue, the plants have a little moisture time stored in the soil block, as well as having fertilizers that don't need to be water soluble, which often cost less.
Working for a vertical farm company called Oh My Greens out of Sweden and we’re launching in Spring. This is really well researched and hits the nail on the head on most things regarding the state of the market. Glad you’re putting the word out there and that your research is more than up to par.
Glad you liked it, and great to hear you are getting involved in the industry. I inadvertently got involved in the industry myself after posting the original series, and it's been fascinating seeing new operations evolve so quickly.
@@ExaCognition best of luck then, let’s hope this tech will make our food supply chains more stable as the climate changes. And it’s funny because my involvement was pretty inadvertent as well
I was surprised, because the vertical farming series was intended to slightly on the optimistic side of what could reasonably happen if most things went well. Yet, it seems so far that it was actually a bit on the conservative side. Whether that continues remains to be seen, but it's certainly a good sign.
I honestly think that home growing needs to be a large component of this. Saw a Earth Ship home a little while back that had it's own "mush room" which used the steam from the shower to keep the mushrooms well hydrated. Indoor growing, home designs that make better use of natural light and solar energy capture are definitely part of this puzzle!
Thank you so much for this update! I shared your earlier video with my Science Through Science Fiction class and will plan to share this one with my current class. I would love to see a video on the possibilities for vertical farming in the home.
Thanks so much, glad you found a the video useful enough to share. A science through science fiction sounds like a cool class! Vertical Farming at home looks like a video I will be making!
definitely super interested in the concept applied to home. I imagine a future where in addition to the standard bathroom, kitchen, etc., a "growing room" will join the list for new buildings being planned.
you know what? I imagine that everyday - I'm making that dream a reality. I've already made it a reality - I used to have an aerogarden in my room. I envision a mini vertical garden in everyone's room and in an apartment the harder, larger stuff would grow in a shared vertical farm.
Many people already do this, heh. Grow tents and vertical farming already is being done for much industry for homegrowing. Samsung believe it or not makes most of the growlights now, literally.
You can do this now!! I have 5 aerogarden hydroponic systems at home and grow lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, wheat/barley grass and sprouts! I just got a grow tent for my garage and will be adding more tomatoes, lettuce, and herbs with a homemade dwc hydroponic system made from storage bins!! For the aerogardens, you can get adjustable wired shelving and stack the aerogardens on top of each other like a wall!!
Hey, Exa... great video. Are you going to update it for 2022. It seems like many startups have failed, and even major fundraiser companies have shut their doors. I think you'd have great content for a new video. Looking forward to see a new instalment on the Vertical Farming current status. Keep producing amazing content.
Please make a growing at home video, that would be amazing! The way out of the detriments of the globalized farming system would be to leverage smart tech at small scale. When people can grow at home, they will know their food like never before, watching grow from seed to harvest everyday. Complete control over their food, and a level of freshness impossible to beat. We should all be farmers and grow food at home! Next, we need to build all our stuff out of plants!
Thanks, the original series started by looking quite in depth at the viability and the key opportunities and challenges ahead. It's certainly a technology with a lot of potential, but its not necessarily an easy path to get there.
Thank you for the update, how exciting. I’ve been following VF since its conception and I’m very excited. We are living through a revolution, just unaware.
ima gonna make my 5pk for abitur in this topic and plan to study BWL Ingeeurswissenschften (Finance and Engeniering) to found my own Company revelutionazing Vertical Farming in Germany!! Your Videos have real IMPACT!
@@ExaCognition Thank you very much!!!! I will be looking forward to see more Videos which give us a fresh but very objective insight about a topic never heard of, thank your for doing that!!
I'm really fascinated about this concept applied at home. I wonder how carbon dioxide will be delivered in that system and overall, how it works. I want to be a part of that innovation including making phase 3 crops economically viable especially in my country Philippines that has large population and cozying space just like Japan.
It will be very interesting to research. Carbon Dioxide in the home is naturally higher than the 400ppm in the atmosphere due to the occupants, though it varies a lot of course on many factors.
If this stuff blows your mind, you should check out this wild thing called nature. How can this be applied in the home? With this miraculous thing called gardening. Plants grown in - get this - the ground! It's really interesting stuff, you should check it out!
this is the first time i've felt properly hopeful about our progress to combating climate change in a long time and seeing progress in reinventing a problematic global system. Great topic, great video, can't wait for the next update in 2 years!
more like 40%, 15% to 20% solar panels 272% of light efficiency indoors because of lightwave trimming but yeah I don't think growing in place justifies this inefficency, I think normal farming + delivery is much less resource intencive than this vertical farms, however if you compund things and see this as more as a greenhouse ... it kinda works, but should never be used for calorie crops (wheat, corn, sugar cane) much better to use the farmland directly instead
@@ratgr I guess you could argue in favour of it in regards of disease, weather and pest protection, and the possiblity to grow crops 24 hours a day all year long, but even then I feel like it's a stretch
@@ratgr A rare, thoughtful comment on youtube. It all seems to hinge on ultra-low cost green energy. If we had that, many problems would be more solvable.
Thank you so much for uploading these types of videos! It is a shame that TH-cam doesn't promote your channel and others like it. Also, I am very interested in the problem of energy storage you brought up in the video. It would be interesting for you to go over the problem in depth and talk about its progress/problems it faces (ex. energy density).
Thanks a lot! I think there are a few interesting elements to energy storage that are worth a bit of a deep dive into. I'm looking forward to researching it more.
Tip for improvement: the updated graphs for profitability were not understandable in the time they were shown. An animation changing the pie-chart from back then to the current numbers would have been more effective. Love the update and references to the old video (which I have also watched 2 yrs ago or so).
I believe high value crops close to markets will be successful but crops such as corn, rice, soy beans, wheat and barley etc. will be unaffected by vertical farming.
It's incredibly difficult to make those commodity crops cost effectively in vertical farms, because they are so cheap to produce in a field, and in vertical farms they require so much energy. That said there is a potential path to it with the right combination of technological progress, it will be difficult though.
It's a classic case by case situation. Countries like Japan and Saudi Arabia, and regions like Alaska and Greenland will go nuts with profitable vertical grown rice and wheat. Other countries, like continental US and Ukraine, not so much. And that's without taking into consideration the problem with water scarcity and stress. There are plenty of opportunities for staple crops to go big in this technology. With what I'm more skeptic is with trees like avocado, apple, cocoa and so on. They're a complete different beast, and I can't see them being grown in vertical farms in a long, long time.
In terms of crop diversity, one point to consider is that if we can remove leafy greens from 2d farms, that provides a lot more space for fruits and grains. Which is not the same as growing them vertically, but does show the connection between these factors.
@@ExaCognition I hope you can continue to keep us updated about vertical farming. Most other don't quite fully explore the topic like you do and they repeat a lot of things. Thank you for your hard work. 👍👍👍
Hey Exa! Love your content have been following you for a while now and please keep up the good work. I was wondering if you're planning on updating the excel sheet from your initial vertical farming series with this new information? Thank you again.
Potato's if they could be grown economically in vertical farms would be a game changer. That borders on a cereal crop given its calorie density and already low cost. We consume 18 million tons of the stuff annually which is more than half of what we consume in wheat. Oh and iron oxide batteries are going to absolutely revolutionize energy.
Could you also take a look at cellular agriculture and precision fermentation? Many of the energy intensive crops could be produced that way. Have a look at what „Solar Foods“ does, they use genetically modified bacteria to produce a much healthier alternative to flour using only electricity, CO2, (very little) water and some minerals. Many animal products like diary, eggs and leather can also be produced this way. Even better than vertical farming if your product will be processed anyways. Vertical farming is great for fruits, vegetables and leafy greens, cellular agriculture is great for the rest.
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Thanks for sharing. The list of VTOL's in development is just huge, some look a lot more viable than others, but the probability of some succeeding is certainly promising.
Could you make a video on the rutherford engine and electric pump jet/rocket engines in general? They could be used for private supersonic, hypersonic jets and spaceplanes. They are more compact and more reliable than turbopumps.
6:52 looks about what I do with my DIY boxes. Except I moved on from the eye hurting blurples, to 3500K BridgeLux white COBs. The snails in my area, are as numerous as they are ravenous. If you're not out there at night, yeeting them across the yard. All you'll have is stumps and half eaten leaves within days. I particularly like doing runs with basil and tomato... The smell is intoxicating.
Phase 3 plants are not grown because they are delicious or especially nutritious, but because they are relatively easy to grow, provide merely adequate nutrition, and provide foods with long storage times. Rice, wheat, millet, etc. They are not necessary. And it's hard to believe indoor growing will ever replace outdoor growing for grains. A seed per pod for ... rice? No. A seed per pod for tomatoes? Heck yes. There is still such a thing as costs. Growing grains indoors, at least in the ways this video presents, would be terribly inefficient.
What of growing crops out of season? Im sure people would be willing to pay more for a strawberry in the dead of winter, as long as its still cheaper and higher quality than transit cost from a warmer country.
This is indeed a very useful option for vertical farms especially for those who have the flexibility to switch crop types to meet seasonal demand. The latter isn't easy to do, but can be well worth it depending on the markets in question.
Robotics and automation will drive the costs down further. Hopefully this technology will make agriculture a viable industry in areas wich it is not traditionally viable. A lot of land in the desert Southwest Isn't good for much beyond growing mesquite.
Indeed, certainly for a lot of small to medium sized operations, labor is the largest cost. Traditional agriculuture is of course more automated right now, but is a very mature industry of course. The potential for automation indoor is much higher in the long term, due to how compact, controlled and standardized the environment can be in comparison.
We should consider vertical farming because current methods are at the point of diminishing returns given that China has pig farms that have multi floors of pigs like pig sky scrapers, and even with those Chinese businessmen are buying up farmland in America. We are hitting the wall essentially. I really recommend the people who want to pursuit this technology for environmental reasons to not talk about it for environmental reasons because boomers will try to turn this much needed technology into culture war nonsense. As a conservative who was born in 1991 I don't want to carry 30 year old baggage. I know how my elders work in their minds. They treat everything like a football game. Regarding nuclear power, right now the millennials & Gen Z who're environmentalist are trying to pivot away from the Boomers & Gen X anti-nuke environmentalist who're using the sins of 1st generation nuclear power plants built in the 1960s to argue against building gen 3 power plants & likely actual commercial fusion power plants in the future. Basically people are using technical problems of nuclear power to argue against solving & eliminating those technical problems. I like the concept of vertical farming & lab culture grown meat products but I don't want to risk instigating the furthering of this culture war nonsense which has paralyzed the country, If people are smart with their wording in their arguments then there are no limitations besides technical that can be solved with time & effort. Just watch what you say around strangers with your promotion of this technology.
There are some HUGE changes coming in the vertical farm industry that I am watching for; 1) Synthetic meats are going to be a game-changer. Over the last few years I have learned that my body hates me, and hates a great many plants, and so I have had to dramatically change my diet to non-dairy and non-wheat meats and starchy staple crops... and that gets expensive quickly. fake-meat products are a game changer in their own right, but just a stepping stone to synthetic meats. But synthetic meats need feed stock of nutrients and protine that isn't traditional food. This is fantastic on 2 fronts; One is that edible foods won't need to be diverted to meat production. The other is that this meat can then be grown on racks and shelves instead of huge swaths of fenced-off land, which will have an even larger impact than growing indoor veggies! 2) Closely related is what you feed synthetic meats, which is a slurry of aldge that is itself engineered to produce specific protines. This isn't particularly human-edible, but is only grown in outdoor vertical farms via large tubes for maximum sun exposure. It is a closed system like an in-door farm, but does not need any of the power costs of indoor farms other than pumps to move the slurry through. But what is more exciting is that this sludge can be used to make all sorts of non-editable 'foods'. It can be programed to make protines, or hydrocarbon fuels, and potentially even medicines or other synthetic base-products for other industries. A lot of this is traditionally diverted from field crops like corn to ethanol, so just like the synthetic meats that save on a lot of space, this is a game-changer. 3) A close-cousin to vertical farm are new mixed-use farming methods which adds an aspect of verticality to traditional farming. The idea there is finding things that use different 'domains' which are beneficial to eachother. As an example; Having low-density solar arrays lifted off the ground to provide shade or partial shade to plants that don't do well in full-sun; These panels can produce electricity, heat storage, water, etc. The next domain would be the layer for trees and vines that aren't good candidates for indoor farming, but will do better with less sunlight rather than more. Then below that you have an animal or low-crop layer. Having chickens or other small critters that keep the weeds down and help fertalize the soil while they themselves get to enjoy the shade of the panels and trees. It isn't quite the same as vertical farming, but it just starting out in Europe where density is more of a concern, and it borrowing heavily from vertical farm ideas and techniques. Like #2, this is outdoors, which means less energy use, and with a combination of solar and water producing panels this has the potential to open up more income streams for traditional farms, or provide the power and water necessary to fully power a vertical farm on the property. 4) Aquaponics has been a thing forever in small do-it-yourself operations, but is about to get a major push into vertical farms. The trick is that it adds a lot of complicaiton to the mix in needing to filter and balance the water cycle, but the up-side is having extremely nutrient-dense water to feed plants, and a place for the non-sellable plant material to go, and an income-stream of selling fish and shellfish meats. The hurtles of manageing these systems cheaply and effectively is nearly done, which will change the industry in a big way. But it is important to keep in mind that all 4 of these are in their early research days. Nowhere near the practicality of the focus of this video, but these are the next-steps coming to the industry being looked at, and should offer advantages that further accelerate the transition and take-off of these vertical farms.
Interesting to consider that this same technology would also make feeding space colonies cost effectively possible as well. Guess things are slowly progressing towards making that a real possibility as well.
@@christafarion9 Ah now that you mention it, Antarctica can also greatly benefit from this technology and make living there much easier. Isn't it great when a technology has so many benefits to so many places?
Are non food crops not a good cashcrop for vertical farms? Like growing cotton or hemp in sunny coastal locations cleaning water and growing plants take a lot of power but doesn't the math look favorable for easily shipped goods like cotton?
I'm a bit skeptical of custom made plants in the fear of losing nutrients but I think it's the right way to go. It made me think of wheat and how it started the Green Revolution. A scientist crossbred wheat plants to make the stalks shorter and thicker so they wouldn't fall over and expose the seeds to the dirt with insects and rot. This change made a huge impact on yields. In an environment with no insects no rot, then what is need of a stalk? Even more energy could be spent on the seeds.
Amazing video as always :P I am interested in hearing more about the idea of Infarm, where one can grow their crops at home. As cool as this sounds, I figure that energy costs make this not reliable if one doesn't have an abundance of solar panels.
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Please do a video on Precision fermentation and cultured meat production that would be one really great video
Seems like Skillshare was quite generous this time
And nothing new I saw but you dream on.
Take a look at permaculture.
@@nickolasjeffrey5866 he has done one on cultured meat look up before u talk
your vertical farming series made me want to pursue engineering 2 years ago and now I'm going into my first year of engineering at cambridge !!
Excellent, that's great to hear! I hope it's an interesting journey, I've certainly enjoyed my time as an engineer.
As a second year engineering student, i wish you good luck in your first year. Mine was rough, with the pandemic and all that.
@@sciencepluspotato1294 oh I could imagine, it was pretty sad... thank you and all the best to you as well !
Which engineering area are you pursuing?
What are you majoring in
As someone from a tiny urban nation and little landmass for agriculture (Singapore), this series on Vertical Farming has been extremely fascinating and relevant for me.
Thank you so very much.
Thanks for sharing, Singapore is certainly one of the places where this technology has particularly high potential.
Hey Exa! I’ve been coaching a friend of mine in Nepal who’s built a large in-home unit oriented towards mushrooms, which naturally grow short in height, don’t require as much light, and can approach 100% edible mass. They made it to the Top 40 (out of 25k teams) at the Hult Prize, the world’s biggest entrepreneurship competition, just a week ago. Happy to discuss.
Sounds great, I would be happy to hear about it!
That sounds awesome, can you share a link or a name of their venture?
Do mushrooms reacquire any light at all?
@@vincentcleaver1925 depends on the species, but usually yes
AWESOME JOB
Yes, please do a Video about vertical farming at home
Yeah, it should be an interesting one. A lot of challenges, but it will be fun to research further.
@@ExaCognition pls do it.
I second this emotion.
I second this too
I literally did the math for a project once, and, in the best case, it really does only take about the space of a washer/dryer stack (~2 m3) to provide enough calories for one person. Now, that was a single product, and averaged out the harvesting structure across a much larger volume, but it is still really cool to consider in home vertical farms.
A room dedicated to food production would be amazing. Grew enough sweet potatoes, watermelons and squash this year using traditional means to cover about 1/5 of me and my girlfriends diet, and could absolutely do more if using vertical, more efficient crops.
I subbed to this channel years ago for this content no idea how much I’ve wanted a continuation on this series 10/10 love the content on here
Welcome back, glad you're enjoying the new content!
I did - I wanted it years ago - and now I have it
same here
I've been at it too! Built myself a system at home using my aquarium. Scaled it up to a 400sqft backyard farm adjacent to the house! Working on building various models now, allowing custom home based systems for everyone!
Excellent work! Glad to hear it's going well.
@@ExaCognition thank you very much! For the kind words as well as the content! Keep doing your thing! :D
@@qawihossain9861 it would be cool if you could upload a video showcasing your work.
A helpful metric might also be comparing the number of farms in production from year to year. It wouldn't be definitive, as size matters, but I think the best result of this industry is getting farms into city centers. It would interesting to know what cities are getting new farms.
I did think about using it, but I couldn't find consistent data year to year for comparison, at least not globally.
Your previous videos really inspired me, I have been trialing my own Organic home production using soil as well. The premise is I have a mushroom farm and chickens, plus my soil based farm that I am trying to swap over to cover crop like alfalfa as a fodder/worm food.
So when the mushroom substrate is spent, I throw it in with a chicken coop, they manure on it, then it rests until it goes into the worm bin, then into a pasteurization pile, then mixed with 33.3% with coco coir, and 33.3% mushroom sawdust substrate. The mushroom substrate being a living organism will bind the other substrate together into a plug, so I dont need a net cup, and it reduces the amount of debris. I then place these into NFT gutters.
The reason I have obsessed about this is I do not own my own farm, so I've spent thousands on soil ammendments and had to walk away from my development. This way I have a recycling system and if I ever have to move, i can hire a dump truck and remove all the compost piles and worm bins to the next location. Also soil, while it requires filter, the nice thing about it is if there is a water issue, the plants have a little moisture time stored in the soil block, as well as having fertilizers that don't need to be water soluble, which often cost less.
Excellent work, I'm impressed by your "Circular Economy", type reuse of waste materials.
Working for a vertical farm company called Oh My Greens out of Sweden and we’re launching in Spring. This is really well researched and hits the nail on the head on most things regarding the state of the market. Glad you’re putting the word out there and that your research is more than up to par.
Glad you liked it, and great to hear you are getting involved in the industry. I inadvertently got involved in the industry myself after posting the original series, and it's been fascinating seeing new operations evolve so quickly.
@@ExaCognition best of luck then, let’s hope this tech will make our food supply chains more stable as the climate changes. And it’s funny because my involvement was pretty inadvertent as well
Very encouraging that progress is happening faster than projected!
I was surprised, because the vertical farming series was intended to slightly on the optimistic side of what could reasonably happen if most things went well. Yet, it seems so far that it was actually a bit on the conservative side. Whether that continues remains to be seen, but it's certainly a good sign.
@@ExaCognition Not all surprises are disappointing~
Looking forward to your next video. You pick very interesting topics
I honestly think that home growing needs to be a large component of this. Saw a Earth Ship home a little while back that had it's own "mush room" which used the steam from the shower to keep the mushrooms well hydrated. Indoor growing, home designs that make better use of natural light and solar energy capture are definitely part of this puzzle!
Please never stop making videos and updates on vertical farming!!! thank you!!
More to come!
Thank you so much for this update! I shared your earlier video with my Science Through Science Fiction class and will plan to share this one with my current class. I would love to see a video on the possibilities for vertical farming in the home.
Thanks so much, glad you found a the video useful enough to share. A science through science fiction sounds like a cool class! Vertical Farming at home looks like a video I will be making!
definitely super interested in the concept applied to home.
I imagine a future where in addition to the standard bathroom, kitchen, etc., a "growing room" will join the list for new buildings being planned.
That would be cool! It looks like I'm going to have to make a video about vertical farming at home, there seems to be plenty of interest in it.
you know what? I imagine that everyday - I'm making that dream a reality. I've already made it a reality - I used to have an aerogarden in my room.
I envision a mini vertical garden in everyone's room and in an apartment the harder, larger stuff would grow in a shared vertical farm.
@@ExaCognition yes please!
Many people already do this, heh.
Grow tents and vertical farming already is being done for much industry for homegrowing. Samsung believe it or not makes most of the growlights now, literally.
You can do this now!! I have 5 aerogarden hydroponic systems at home and grow lettuce, tomatoes, herbs, wheat/barley grass and sprouts! I just got a grow tent for my garage and will be adding more tomatoes, lettuce, and herbs with a homemade dwc hydroponic system made from storage bins!! For the aerogardens, you can get adjustable wired shelving and stack the aerogardens on top of each other like a wall!!
I highly appreciate this report, keep us updated (farmer, and indoor farmer commercially also)
I just subscribed a few days ago after watching your previous vertical farming videos. Thanks for seeing that and making this video in response.
Welcome aboard!
I'd love to learn more about the in-home vertical farming.
Great to hear, I will make it.
Hey, Exa... great video. Are you going to update it for 2022. It seems like many startups have failed, and even major fundraiser companies have shut their doors.
I think you'd have great content for a new video. Looking forward to see a new instalment on the Vertical Farming current status.
Keep producing amazing content.
Please make a growing at home video, that would be amazing! The way out of the detriments of the globalized farming system would be to leverage smart tech at small scale. When people can grow at home, they will know their food like never before, watching grow from seed to harvest everyday. Complete control over their food, and a level of freshness impossible to beat. We should all be farmers and grow food at home!
Next, we need to build all our stuff out of plants!
Please make more videos. How far it grows,What a ride.
I will do!
Thank you for the update!
Glad you liked it!
we are building our own version of vertical farm ... slowly but surely :-)
I like how this vid explores many aspects of the subject, instead of cherry picking all of the positives as a propaganda piece
Thanks, the original series started by looking quite in depth at the viability and the key opportunities and challenges ahead. It's certainly a technology with a lot of potential, but its not necessarily an easy path to get there.
Im really waiting for your new videos. Please make more. Youre the most underrated channel i ever know.
Thanks a lot! I've got some more videos planned, hopefully some of them are good ones.
This is the kind of video I want to see. An update on the new technologies of the last decade or so
Glad you liked it, it was really interesting to revisit and update.
Thank you for the update, how exciting.
I’ve been following VF since its conception and I’m very excited. We are living through a revolution, just unaware.
You are welcome!
ima gonna make my 5pk for abitur in this topic and plan to study BWL Ingeeurswissenschften (Finance and Engeniering) to found my own Company revelutionazing Vertical Farming in Germany!! Your Videos have real IMPACT!
That's awesome, it's very inspiring to hear when people get involved. I wish you the best of luck!
@@ExaCognition Thank you very much!!!! I will be looking forward to see more Videos which give us a fresh but very objective insight about a topic never heard of, thank your for doing that!!
I'm really fascinated about this concept applied at home. I wonder how carbon dioxide will be delivered in that system and overall, how it works. I want to be a part of that innovation including making phase 3 crops economically viable especially in my country Philippines that has large population and cozying space just like Japan.
It will be very interesting to research. Carbon Dioxide in the home is naturally higher than the 400ppm in the atmosphere due to the occupants, though it varies a lot of course on many factors.
If this stuff blows your mind, you should check out this wild thing called nature. How can this be applied in the home? With this miraculous thing called gardening. Plants grown in - get this - the ground! It's really interesting stuff, you should check it out!
this is the first time i've felt properly hopeful about our progress to combating climate change in a long time and seeing progress in reinventing a problematic global system. Great topic, great video, can't wait for the next update in 2 years!
Thanks a lot, it makes me wonder where we will be in two years time!
@Probably 2021 Nah man the giant ball of superheated nuclear fire doesn't heat the Earth.... That's just silly!
So we're taking the crops away from fields and covering those fields with the solar panels to grow the crops indoors at 20% efficiency?
The lone voice of reason.
more like 40%, 15% to 20% solar panels 272% of light efficiency indoors because of lightwave trimming but yeah I don't think growing in place justifies this inefficency, I think normal farming + delivery is much less resource intencive than this vertical farms, however if you compund things and see this as more as a greenhouse ... it kinda works, but should never be used for calorie crops (wheat, corn, sugar cane) much better to use the farmland directly instead
@@ratgr I guess you could argue in favour of it in regards of disease, weather and pest protection, and the possiblity to grow crops 24 hours a day all year long, but even then I feel like it's a stretch
@@hardware64 Sure thats why I wouldn't like this tech to get heavily used, I guess things that need a greenhouse anyway is a good idea
@@ratgr A rare, thoughtful comment on youtube. It all seems to hinge on ultra-low cost green energy. If we had that, many problems would be more solvable.
A minor nit - given the effect of compound interest, 2.2 to 3.9 in 3 years is a 21% increase per year, not 32%
Yes, also at 13:20 it doesn't make sense that costs decreased by 133%. A 100% decrease is already equal to zero costs.
Thank you so much for uploading these types of videos! It is a shame that TH-cam doesn't promote your channel and others like it. Also, I am very interested in the problem of energy storage you brought up in the video. It would be interesting for you to go over the problem in depth and talk about its progress/problems it faces (ex. energy density).
Thanks a lot! I think there are a few interesting elements to energy storage that are worth a bit of a deep dive into. I'm looking forward to researching it more.
Yup food at home is interesting!
This is crazy cool I love these videos!!!
Great to hear!
Tip for improvement: the updated graphs for profitability were not understandable in the time they were shown. An animation changing the pie-chart from back then to the current numbers would have been more effective.
Love the update and references to the old video (which I have also watched 2 yrs ago or so).
It would be interesting to see a video where you investigate the grow at home solution!!
hey I loved your series on vertical farming - practiaclly the best made on youtube!
Wow, thanks!
maybe you can do a video on precision fermentation next? I feel it goes with vertical farming
Yeah, I think there are a few interesting agtech areas to explore, precision fermentation is one I can potentially look at.
Aerofarms is going public ticket SV, APPH Appharvest has been public, and infarm is going public as well
Your analysis is always spot-on
Growing at home in regular IKEA furiture. Growing bellpepper, tomatoes, lettuce and herbs.
I'd love to see a video about the used of VF for food production at home!
Please keep making videos on this to keep us updated. Thank you.
Im most interested in the crisper gene editing of the plants more so than the vertical farming itself.
Thanks for the update, and thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
yussss been waiting for an update on this
It's surprising how much has happened in the last 3 years!
Yes vertical farming in home is a greate topic. It will be a great video☺️
You got it!
7:26 Hell yeah.
I believe high value crops close to markets will be successful but crops such as corn, rice, soy beans, wheat and barley etc. will be unaffected by vertical farming.
It's incredibly difficult to make those commodity crops cost effectively in vertical farms, because they are so cheap to produce in a field, and in vertical farms they require so much energy. That said there is a potential path to it with the right combination of technological progress, it will be difficult though.
I kinda want those commodity crops to eventually be profitable when grown vertically, just for the opportunity to rewild a bunch of places.
It's a classic case by case situation. Countries like Japan and Saudi Arabia, and regions like Alaska and Greenland will go nuts with profitable vertical grown rice and wheat. Other countries, like continental US and Ukraine, not so much.
And that's without taking into consideration the problem with water scarcity and stress. There are plenty of opportunities for staple crops to go big in this technology.
With what I'm more skeptic is with trees like avocado, apple, cocoa and so on. They're a complete different beast, and I can't see them being grown in vertical farms in a long, long time.
@@jimsonbonilla8233 perhaps with genetic engineering we will be able to produce smaller scale fruit bearing "mini trees" apt for vertical farming
In terms of crop diversity, one point to consider is that if we can remove leafy greens from 2d farms, that provides a lot more space for fruits and grains. Which is not the same as growing them vertically, but does show the connection between these factors.
also: I think leafy greens and tomatoes themselves probably make up a HUGE percentage of all the vegetables consumed in the US.
@@NirvanaFan5000 you're correct, about 50% by weight iirc, according to USDA data on food availability for 2010.
Let’s go with Sam O Nella’s idea where you turn wheat stalks into giant bushels of wheat berries that grow like broccoli
Vertical farming will be developed highly just because of crop diversity. If not now certainly in the future.
In home farming vid sounds great! Lets see it soon :D
Been waiting for thi video for way long
Yeah, it's been a long time coming. Hope it was worth the wait!
@@ExaCognition I hope you can continue to keep us updated about vertical farming. Most other don't quite fully explore the topic like you do and they repeat a lot of things. Thank you for your hard work. 👍👍👍
I'd totally watch the video about growing food at home
I will be making it!
Hey Exa!
Love your content have been following you for a while now and please keep up the good work.
I was wondering if you're planning on updating the excel sheet from your initial vertical farming series with this new information?
Thank you again.
great programme! This is such an important and interesting space. Thanks for putting this out there.
Potato's if they could be grown economically in vertical farms would be a game changer. That borders on a cereal crop given its calorie density and already low cost. We consume 18 million tons of the stuff annually which is more than half of what we consume in wheat. Oh and iron oxide batteries are going to absolutely revolutionize energy.
PLEASE DO MORE VIDEO'S ABOUT VERTICLE FARMING.
Your videos are excellent quality, keep it up!
Thank you very much!
Would love to see the video on home farms next!
You got it!
Miniature Vertical farming would be awesome 😎
Could you also take a look at cellular agriculture and precision fermentation? Many of the energy intensive crops could be produced that way. Have a look at what „Solar Foods“ does, they use genetically modified bacteria to produce a much healthier alternative to flour using only electricity, CO2, (very little) water and some minerals. Many animal products like diary, eggs and leather can also be produced this way. Even better than vertical farming if your product will be processed anyways. Vertical farming is great for fruits, vegetables and leafy greens, cellular agriculture is great for the rest.
This is an excellent suggestion, I was thinking of doing this as a future video, but I think it's worth thinking about bringing it forward.
Hey , really looking forward to your video on personal inhome farms , subscribing just for that . Thanks in advance ☺
Thanks for the sub!
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Could you make a video on the rutherford engine and electric pump jet/rocket engines in general?
They could be used for private supersonic, hypersonic jets and spaceplanes. They are more compact and more reliable than turbopumps.
Wonderful Update!
Thanks for sharing the good news :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
The man is back! Feed the algorithm!
Thanks a lot, hopefully this one gains some traction!
Please make a grow at home video showing current tech and products. 👍
At home..... ok am i the only thinking about a crop that is already very profitable to grow secretly in the basement...?
6:52 looks about what I do with my DIY boxes. Except I moved on from the eye hurting blurples, to 3500K BridgeLux white COBs. The snails in my area, are as numerous as they are ravenous. If you're not out there at night, yeeting them across the yard. All you'll have is stumps and half eaten leaves within days. I particularly like doing runs with basil and tomato... The smell is intoxicating.
Great content! Feel free to explore the small CEF domestic market....Cheers
Phase 3 plants are not grown because they are delicious or especially nutritious, but because they are relatively easy to grow, provide merely adequate nutrition, and provide foods with long storage times. Rice, wheat, millet, etc. They are not necessary. And it's hard to believe indoor growing will ever replace outdoor growing for grains. A seed per pod for ... rice? No. A seed per pod for tomatoes? Heck yes. There is still such a thing as costs. Growing grains indoors, at least in the ways this video presents, would be terribly inefficient.
What of growing crops out of season? Im sure people would be willing to pay more for a strawberry in the dead of winter, as long as its still cheaper and higher quality than transit cost from a warmer country.
This is indeed a very useful option for vertical farms especially for those who have the flexibility to switch crop types to meet seasonal demand. The latter isn't easy to do, but can be well worth it depending on the markets in question.
From report of Guidehouse released Nov 2021, global hydroponics 24% growth. Still fast enough.
Cheap power could also come from Gen IV nuclear tech as well. Could be a source of generating petroleum-free ammonia.
I want to do a video on next gen nuclear tech, a lot of interesting stuff going on!
Robotics and automation will drive the costs down further.
Hopefully this technology will make agriculture a viable industry in areas wich it is not traditionally viable. A lot of land in the desert Southwest Isn't good for much beyond growing mesquite.
Indeed, certainly for a lot of small to medium sized operations, labor is the largest cost. Traditional agriculuture is of course more automated right now, but is a very mature industry of course. The potential for automation indoor is much higher in the long term, due to how compact, controlled and standardized the environment can be in comparison.
We should consider vertical farming because current methods are at the point of diminishing returns given that China has pig farms that have multi floors of pigs like pig sky scrapers, and even with those Chinese businessmen are buying up farmland in America. We are hitting the wall essentially.
I really recommend the people who want to pursuit this technology for environmental reasons to not talk about it for environmental reasons because boomers will try to turn this much needed technology into culture war nonsense. As a conservative who was born in 1991 I don't want to carry 30 year old baggage. I know how my elders work in their minds. They treat everything like a football game.
Regarding nuclear power, right now the millennials & Gen Z who're environmentalist are trying to pivot away from the Boomers & Gen X anti-nuke environmentalist who're using the sins of 1st generation nuclear power plants built in the 1960s to argue against building gen 3 power plants & likely actual commercial fusion power plants in the future. Basically people are using technical problems of nuclear power to argue against solving & eliminating those technical problems.
I like the concept of vertical farming & lab culture grown meat products but I don't want to risk instigating the furthering of this culture war nonsense which has paralyzed the country, If people are smart with their wording in their arguments then there are no limitations besides technical that can be solved with time & effort.
Just watch what you say around strangers with your promotion of this technology.
You should definitely talk about acquaponics sistem.
Did you have any data to share? I really want to see all the data. Its soo good.
Vertical farming at home, that's the future we need...
The desktop farm is very interesting!
Your video has great and depth analysis, but can you please also put in the reference for your video research? Thankyou
I defin itely want to know more about small personal hydroponics.
Thanks, I will be making that video!
It's been a year. Any update?
There are some HUGE changes coming in the vertical farm industry that I am watching for;
1) Synthetic meats are going to be a game-changer. Over the last few years I have learned that my body hates me, and hates a great many plants, and so I have had to dramatically change my diet to non-dairy and non-wheat meats and starchy staple crops... and that gets expensive quickly. fake-meat products are a game changer in their own right, but just a stepping stone to synthetic meats.
But synthetic meats need feed stock of nutrients and protine that isn't traditional food. This is fantastic on 2 fronts; One is that edible foods won't need to be diverted to meat production. The other is that this meat can then be grown on racks and shelves instead of huge swaths of fenced-off land, which will have an even larger impact than growing indoor veggies!
2) Closely related is what you feed synthetic meats, which is a slurry of aldge that is itself engineered to produce specific protines. This isn't particularly human-edible, but is only grown in outdoor vertical farms via large tubes for maximum sun exposure. It is a closed system like an in-door farm, but does not need any of the power costs of indoor farms other than pumps to move the slurry through.
But what is more exciting is that this sludge can be used to make all sorts of non-editable 'foods'. It can be programed to make protines, or hydrocarbon fuels, and potentially even medicines or other synthetic base-products for other industries. A lot of this is traditionally diverted from field crops like corn to ethanol, so just like the synthetic meats that save on a lot of space, this is a game-changer.
3) A close-cousin to vertical farm are new mixed-use farming methods which adds an aspect of verticality to traditional farming. The idea there is finding things that use different 'domains' which are beneficial to eachother. As an example; Having low-density solar arrays lifted off the ground to provide shade or partial shade to plants that don't do well in full-sun; These panels can produce electricity, heat storage, water, etc. The next domain would be the layer for trees and vines that aren't good candidates for indoor farming, but will do better with less sunlight rather than more. Then below that you have an animal or low-crop layer. Having chickens or other small critters that keep the weeds down and help fertalize the soil while they themselves get to enjoy the shade of the panels and trees. It isn't quite the same as vertical farming, but it just starting out in Europe where density is more of a concern, and it borrowing heavily from vertical farm ideas and techniques.
Like #2, this is outdoors, which means less energy use, and with a combination of solar and water producing panels this has the potential to open up more income streams for traditional farms, or provide the power and water necessary to fully power a vertical farm on the property.
4) Aquaponics has been a thing forever in small do-it-yourself operations, but is about to get a major push into vertical farms. The trick is that it adds a lot of complicaiton to the mix in needing to filter and balance the water cycle, but the up-side is having extremely nutrient-dense water to feed plants, and a place for the non-sellable plant material to go, and an income-stream of selling fish and shellfish meats. The hurtles of manageing these systems cheaply and effectively is nearly done, which will change the industry in a big way.
But it is important to keep in mind that all 4 of these are in their early research days. Nowhere near the practicality of the focus of this video, but these are the next-steps coming to the industry being looked at, and should offer advantages that further accelerate the transition and take-off of these vertical farms.
Interesting to consider that this same technology would also make feeding space colonies cost effectively possible as well. Guess things are slowly progressing towards making that a real possibility as well.
Yes, you could say that this technology has its roots in early controlled environment research for growing in space.
Guess it's rooted deep then.
You should go and live in Antartica! It's a cake walk compared to space. Why don't you go try it out for a year?
@@christafarion9 Ah now that you mention it, Antarctica can also greatly benefit from this technology and make living there much easier.
Isn't it great when a technology has so many benefits to so many places?
Are non food crops not a good cashcrop for vertical farms? Like growing cotton or hemp in sunny coastal locations cleaning water and growing plants take a lot of power but doesn't the math look favorable for easily shipped goods like cotton?
Hemp grown in a vertical setup is being explored extensively, it just isn't in the scope of this video i suspect.
Hey Exa, have you considered looking into the production of non-eadible plants within vertical farming?
Not personally, but its certainly happening.
I'm a bit skeptical of custom made plants in the fear of losing nutrients but I think it's the right way to go.
It made me think of wheat and how it started the Green Revolution. A scientist crossbred wheat plants to make the stalks shorter and thicker so they wouldn't fall over and expose the seeds to the dirt with insects and rot. This change made a huge impact on yields.
In an environment with no insects no rot, then what is need of a stalk? Even more energy could be spent on the seeds.
Growing wheat and rice will be definitely the revolution.
It will be extremely difficult, but it certainly could have a huge impact if it can be done at scale efficiently.
Please cover home farming
I will be covering home farming now!
Bro, when is your next episode coming out?
I think he said he always trying to focus on his career. I suppose it quickly gets difficult to produce videos if you have a demanding job.
What major in engineering would be best to study if I want to be involved in vertical farming?
Mechanical, electrical, or industrial.
Food is important but I would like to see how this impacts cotton farming.
Amazing video as always :P I am interested in hearing more about the idea of Infarm, where one can grow their crops at home. As cool as this sounds, I figure that energy costs make this not reliable if one doesn't have an abundance of solar panels.
Great vid, any chance you could provide us with some of the primary sources you used to make this video? would love to explore them more.
I love aerofarms! It's on the stock market and its stock price is going up - SV. It's going through a merger in a few days and will be ARFM soon!