Vertical Farm

It's interesting, but they're going in the wrong direction. They're scaling it up to huge centralised farm units. What they should eb doing is thinking in terms of single container-sized highly automated 'farm' machines able to produce enough food for clusters of 10-12 households.

Cheap village sized drop in solutions to farming, that require little water, run on reusable power [solar/wind] and don't require a degree in agriculture to use.

Now imagine selling those in Africa, or Asia... or here in the West. Where you can have one or two per community making them independent of the logistical supply chain and agri-corps.

Well... it's the wrong direction from some perspectives, but any commercial-possible technology will have someone attempt to scale up to make big bucks.

It would tickle me if this turned out to be like the neighborhood pizza parlor. There's lots of good pizza places who can't scale up to be a chain, but who make some pizza that a lot of people enjoy, and is successful enough to provide a decent living for the owner(s)/workers.

And it's important to try it anyway - population and climate change are making it so that we might not keep cheating Malthus for long, without something like this.