Turning Photons Into Food

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited in vertical farming debates as a rigorous look at when indoor crops are economically viable.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Apogee Instruments Inc.

Topic

indoor crop lighting efficiency

Format

lecture

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• This has the infuriatingly common fatal logical flaw of wrapping "farming" in one giant layer of abstraction and comparing indoor vs outdoor at the broadest scale. Indoor farming, or greenhouse farming, or high-tunnel farming, or a zillion others are all incremental adaptations of particular plants …

• You could grow salad in the cupboard. Lettuce is one of the few crops that would be economical to grow under indoor lighting. I believe that info comes from here: [VIDEO] If you think LEDs have gotten epic, check out his research. They're just getting …

• > Now lets get the yield potentials for everything else under the sun so we can start optimizing better. [VIDEO] That presentation is by one of the same scientists referenced in the linked paper, Dr. Bruce Bugbee, the one who grew wheat on the ISS. …