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So what?
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Winner, winner-chicken dinner!
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You can grow your own mj in JC.
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Will they have an outlet store?
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They're not spending 36 million to grow spinach. They're setting up to grow marijuana at the facility once it's fully legalized in NJ.
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is it too ironic to power one of these with solar panels?
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True but I think that it is also fairly reliable and not as prone to power outages. The longest I have ever been without power was during hurricane Sandy, and before that was when the entire northeast grid went down. If they can pay the bills, they can be operational for a long time.
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The Achilles heal of these type of farms is always the energy consumption. NJ has expensive electric power so I am kind of surprised that the facility was located here.
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The World's Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built In an Old Steel MillGIZMODO Across the Hudson and over Newark Bay, about 15 miles from Manhattan, a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs is financing the construction of what will become the largest indoor vertical farm in the world inside a former steel mill. It will also serve as the headquarters for a New York company called AeroFarms, which sprang up about a decade ago in upstate New York. The company uses a method it calls "aeroponics,"a concept coined by a Cornell professor who is now a partner, which leaves the roots of plants bare or dangling in the open so that they can be sprayed with nutrients. The process cuts out soil and sun entirely, relying instead on LEDs and the constant circulation of air and nutrient mist to feed the plants. AeroFarms says the process results in better plants faster, and uses "95 percent less water" than normal farming. Read more: http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest ... -built-in-an-o-1691057146
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