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Arri London

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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:39:03 -0600, Arri London >
> wrote:
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> >
> >Andy wrote:
> >>
> >> 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? ))
> >
> >
> >Shade-grown coffee of course. One has the altitude and the shade
> >>
> >> <Chuckle>
> >>
> >> Andy
> >> CotD #2
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> 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.
>
> aloha,
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People grow coffee in all sorts of places that don't have that much sun.
Soil and water aren't a problem for rooftop gardens. Sun can be
reflected from all sorts of places and artificial light to fill in the
gaps. It's called shade-grown for a reason