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# 21805 byXenophile on Oct. 9, 2007, 9:31 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
Here's an idea. Take 65 hectares (just over 160 acres) of old
farmland, cover the whole thing with a vertical farm of, IDK,
twenty-five stories. Cover the top with a park, and a rectenna on top
of that (a rectenna lets light through, so why not?). The rectenna
provides the power to run the vertical farm.
4,015.46 acres, or 6.27 square miles of year-round farming. This
assumes that stories are not further subdivided, which they almost
certainly would be.