it wouldn’t be practical for crops by any means but i wonder how far capturing waste heat from a building would get you for a rooftop greenhouse situation.
They used to grow pineapples in Victorian England by using horse manure to create either to create a greenhouse effect in the glasshouse or they’d capture the gas and burn it to heat the greenhouses can’t remember exactly but wikipedia can give you more details, there was this whole pineapple craze where it was vogue to just have a pineapple, you wouldn’t even eat them you would just own one. Iceland also had a tropical fruit industry when tropical fruits used to have a high tariff on them.
Gasoline has about 11 kcal per gram, so it would actually probably be substantially more than 2600 kcal of fossil fuels per food calorie to grow them in Alaska.
now corrected. and my 12,000 square mile subterranean alaskan banana system does not run on fancy gasoline, but rather asphalt-burning boilers providing heat and converting mechanical energy into electrical power for metal halide lights.
its more of a global terraforming effort that produces $100 bananas as a side hustle.
Capitalist meritocracy, folks!
my banana factory in alaska is going to blow people’s minds.
2600 megacalories of fossil fuels in for each calorie of nutrition out. a $100 banana.
it will be the most patriotic and american line of bananas ever built, in complete defiance of all the laws of gods and men.
it wouldn’t be practical for crops by any means but i wonder how far capturing waste heat from a building would get you for a rooftop greenhouse situation.
They used to grow pineapples in Victorian England by using horse manure to create either to create a greenhouse effect in the glasshouse or they’d capture the gas and burn it to heat the greenhouses can’t remember exactly but wikipedia can give you more details, there was this whole pineapple craze where it was vogue to just have a pineapple, you wouldn’t even eat them you would just own one. Iceland also had a tropical fruit industry when tropical fruits used to have a high tariff on them.
my brain inserted the linkedin AI slop hype emojis at the start of each line of your post
Good news is the proliferation of AI slop will actually make his business idea more viable thanks to climate change
Gasoline has about 11 kcal per gram, so it would actually probably be substantially more than 2600 kcal of fossil fuels per food calorie to grow them in Alaska.
now corrected. and my 12,000 square mile subterranean alaskan banana system does not run on fancy gasoline, but rather asphalt-burning boilers providing heat and converting mechanical energy into electrical power for metal halide lights.
its more of a global terraforming effort that produces $100 bananas as a side hustle.
At that point it’s more venuforming than terraforming