Can Hydoponics be scaled up big time. It seems so much more controllable than conventional methods.?

Question

Initial set up costs would be very high i guess but wouldn't it in the long term get cheaper and cheaper and in addition be able to use useless land and make it productive.

Answer 1

One of the most preventative costs for scaling up hydroponics is labor, and the level of skilled labor required. It can be done, but expense prevents it.

Answer 2

yes  but not for staple foods such as wheat, rice and potato's only luxury foods such as lettuces and strawberries and tomato.

Have you ever seen a commercial salad farm especially in span they have acres of greenhouse growing hydroponically and so are the susses growers of UK strawberries moving over to this!

Answer 3

You can grow lots hydroponicallly but costs are a lot. It doesn't need land but l;ots of power fotliting and water. Hence a lot of higher return crops tomatos and marjuana. The resources to grow other don't justify the return

Answer 4

It could but there would be a problem with the supply of carbon dioxide, the so-called poison on which all life is based.

CO2 levels can drop very fast in the closed environment of hydroponics unless you supply it from canisters, propane burners, cut a deal with a power station or just "open the windows" which i guess is doable.