>>12992326no, that's a whole other beast. As a matter of fact, the main disadvantage of traditional crops is transportation, if anything self driving trucks will make the case for vertical farming even worse.
Vertical farming has two very big problems that are nowhere near solved and its not clear if its even vaguely solvable. First is land price and second is energy.
Regarding land usage, the idea of vertical farming is to be able to grow crops inside or very near your city without having to go far away, well that's precisely the main factor that drives the land price up like a motherfucker, and even if it has a trillion floors both up and down, and even if its super efficient and packed, still the volumes consumed by a modern metropolis means youre gonna need a lot of surface for that, at the worst possible place to need it.
And the electricity problem is probably quite close to unsolvable Basically traditional farming makes use of trillions upon trillions of megawats that are delivered for free by the sun, albeit in a quite inneficient way its quite difficult to compete with that.
The only way is probably if some breaktrough makes electricity dirt cheap , something like fusion, then maybe, but if that happens of course a lot of shit would change
