Those rotating ferris wheels look fancy, but it really isn’t much different from regular greenhouse operations found in the Netherlands since decades. Maybe a bit more robotics involved, but the video isn’t so clear on that (the strawberry picking robot doesn’t look like a production ready version to me).
Of course many vertical farming efforts were and are equally stuck in traditional mass farming paradigms, but the real promise of vertical farming is IMHO small decentralized units in urban areas.
Monoculture is a terrible idea, even in a robotic vertical farm with sterilization. Decentralization is key, but brexit tyrants like Dyson will never share their automation technology or research with the public. Open source sharing is the only way to bring the price down to the point it can be decentralized.
Also, his vertical farm would not be profitable without his biodigesting power plant that gets free high-quality fuel from his non-vertical farm empire.
How to outcompete farm workers with automation.
