On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:39:03 -0600, Arri London >
wrote:

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>Andy wrote:
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>> Arri London said...
>>
>> > Lots of buildings in NYC are 'set back' or stepped to provide more
>> > sunlight to more floors. The building frames wouldn't need to have that
>> > much floor 'acreage' to work. Think more like terraced hillsides,
>> > although the terracing isn't really about supplying more light.
>> >
>> > Still very expensive to get going.
>>
>> Arri,
>>
>> OK, so if you constructed a Vertical Farm at Bryant Park, Midtown
>> Manhattan, NYC, shadowed by the American Radiator Building (prior offices
>> of the "Chuckle of the Day"), you'd still be blocked by the sun!
>>
>> Whatcha gonna grow? ))
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>
>Shade-grown coffee of course. One has the altitude and the shade
>>
>> <Chuckle>
>>
>> Andy
>> CotD #2

But not the soil and water and the happy plants. NYC is out of the
range, so sorry. Coffee needs the sun a lot of the year! Just my
$.02.

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