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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 426728" data-attributes="member: 4720">Untrue.&nbsp; Hydroponics are getting to&nbsp; the point where they are going to be more effective anyway, provided a reliable power source.&nbsp; You don't need vast tracts of land.&nbsp; A high-rise hydroponics building (or a multilevel underground operation) could produce MUCH more food using a tiny fraction of the land.&nbsp; It's not currently cost effective, but if you didn't have to worry about energy costs and interrupted power, it would make sense to convert as much farming as possible to hydroponics.&nbsp; It would be the first time in history that American industry and government joined forced to push tech as quickly as possible.Plus, government is run by the people who own the industry (regardless of political party affiliation, not slamming any particular group here).&nbsp; They would much rather develop the land and make the taxpayers pick up the cost of developing alternative food sources than pay out of their own pockets to develop underground industry.&nbsp; Not to mention the infrastructure and pollution problems that would entail.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 426728, member: 4720"] Untrue. Hydroponics are getting to the point where they are going to be more effective anyway, provided a reliable power source. You don't [i]need[/i] vast tracts of land. A high-rise hydroponics building (or a multilevel underground operation) could produce MUCH more food using a tiny fraction of the land. It's not currently cost effective, but if you didn't have to worry about energy costs and interrupted power, it would make sense to convert as much farming as possible to hydroponics. It would be the first time in history that American industry and government joined forced to push tech as quickly as possible. Plus, government is run by the people who own the industry (regardless of political party affiliation, not slamming any particular group here). They would much rather develop the land and make the taxpayers pick up the cost of developing alternative food sources than pay out of their own pockets to develop underground industry. Not to mention the infrastructure and pollution problems that would entail. [/QUOTE]

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