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The issue of Agri-Worlds
Depends on the economics of it. Just because its doable, doesn't make it the most economically feasible option. Just like we can grow most of crops in a fully controlled greenhouse environment right now, even in parts of Earth that are completely unsuitable for agriculture, we generally don't... -
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The issue of Agri-Worlds
Depends the most on tech paradigm. If you have good enough aerospace and nuclear technology, fission or fusion powered lifters with takeoff weight measured in thousands of tons using heated atmosphere for most of lift and a tank of dense liquid for feedstock for orbital maneuvering and deorbit... -
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The issue of Agri-Worlds
As i suggested, there would be massive freighters coming to such a planet from wherever the food is going, and their holds would be mostly empty when doing so. Hence, at very little extra cost they could carry some form of fertilizer back when on the return trip. Whoever owns the farmlands may... -
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The issue of Agri-Worlds
They can... But food produced in such would be mighty expensive yet very small quantity compared to a city's needs, so who the hell would buy it. The real estate cost alone would make it expensive if we're talking cities. That's why so few bother with that kind of urban farming tricks IRL, and... -
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The issue of Agri-Worlds
Agri-worlds make no sense as such if they don't use advanced agricultural technology and don't produce industrial quantities of food, so it would be obvious that the freighters that come to take the massive amount of food have a lot of free room coming there, unlikely to be filled with machinery...