• appel@whiskers.bim.boats
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    1 year ago

    MBIC vegetables literally come out of the ground. They literally grow on trees. Why do you need a 3d printer when carrots have been coming out of the ground for thousands of years. Holy shit

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      They’re Qatar-based student, and vegetables does not come from ground or tree, but shipping container lol.

      I think their idea is noble, but really, hydroponics and vertical farm could potentially scale better than cultivate plant cell and print it, and also a tried and tested method for idk millions of years.

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        I’ve seen the number of carrots you can get from a meter squared, I honestly felt like they never saw a vegetable patch in their life. Qatar? Well then…

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        hydroponics and vertical farm

        Both take water. I’m guessing Qatar doesn’t have a whole lot of that.

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          Everything takes water, they have desalination plants for that. Hydroponic’s goal is both reduce water and land use.

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          Qatar is literally surrounded by water on 3 sides. It’s water from the Persian Gulf, so I think it’s salty. So the only problem is efficient and sustainable desalination. Sounds like a more reasonable approach to me.

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      1 year ago

      But imagine the possibilities, you could have square carrots, or diamond shaped carrots made out of non carrot material for science

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      1 year ago

      Why do you need a 3d printer when carrots have been coming out of the ground for thousands of years.

      they explain that in the article :)