Future Technologies:

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• Future Technologies
• Vertical Farming
• Rick Novak and Joseph Scarpinato

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What the heck is it?

• Think of it as a multi-storied greenhouse
• Located at the heart of the worlds urban centers
• Totally self-contained
• Like having a huge plantation on mere hundreds of
  square feet

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Overview of Technology

• Cheap
• Controlled Output
• Less Pesticides
• Less Resources

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Audience

• Urban Planners
• Venture Capitalists
• Food Retailers
• Governments

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Population Demands

• By 2050, global population will exceed
• 9,085,000,000.
• How will they be fed?
• 1,000,000,000,000 acres will be needed to feed
  this population.

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Building

• 100 million per facility
• 10,000 sq. feet
• 21 stories tall
• Steel super structure
• 100 artificial light

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Start-Up

• Begin with lettuce
• Easy to grow
• Provide good feedback for other crops

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Yield

• 470 tons per vertical acre
• Using only 2.1bls of water per lb of lettuce
  produced
• 1.90 average price for head of lettuce
• Over 25 million in net income

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Benefits

• Decreased water waste
• Increased place utility (less land used)
• More fresh vegetables

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Benefits continued

• Non variable costs
• Known output
• Central location easier for distribution
• Controllable environment

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More Benefits

• Year round crop production
• Easy to administrate for small/poor countries
• Returns current, traditional farmland to nature

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Environmental Impact

• Self sustaining
• Purified urban gray water
• Solar powered
• Geo thermal heat for warmth

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Environmental Impact continued

• Eliminates agricultural waste runoff
• Recycle bio waste as compost
• No trafficked waste through urban centers
• Air purification benefits

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Conclusion

• Cheaper to grow food
• Easy to setup
• Lower environmental impact
• Sustainable food supply

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