Buford12 t1_jbj7vjw wrote
Reply to comment by noxx1234567 in TIL that a 26-story skyscraper pig farm was built in China's Hubei province, and has the capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year. by DukeMaximum
I under stand that. But if you built a one story facility out of the city it's initialization cost would have to be less than half the cost. Plus 2 million hogs would require a large amount of energy for refrigeration and ventilation to maintain a viable environment.
Then also you have just added 2 million residents to the city's water and sewer systems.
noxx1234567 t1_jbjay2y wrote
Industrial scale farming has a lot of logistical and scaling advantages over traditional farms .Energy is cheap in china
They probably have their own effluent treatment and recycling plants
Then again this is probably a prototype facility to research and further improve any negatives. If it's successful they can replicate it all over the country and be independent of imported food
Buford12 t1_jbjmhk5 wrote
Well they would be importing grain rather than pork. Unless they currently export grain.
noxx1234567 t1_jbjts8x wrote
Grain can be important from multiple countries , it's not as important . Russia alone has a lot of unused farm land to produce enough grain for china
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