• appel
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    101 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_🦀 A
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      231 year ago

      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.

      • @Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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        41 year ago

        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…

      • @SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        hydroponics and vertical farm

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

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

        • appel
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          41 year ago

          Growing plant cells in culture also requires water. Cells require water

      • appel
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        31 year ago

        For purely testing the idea, sure. But suggesting that a nation feed itself with this technology is folly

    • @variants@possumpat.io
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      31 year ago

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

      • appel
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        21 year ago

        Much easier with hydroponics, than to have a cell culture lab on board.

    • @dystop@lemmy.world
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      21 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 :)