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Grains take longer to mature than traditional indoor crops like lettuce, hence historically they've exclusively been grown outside, as the energy costs of indoor production can easily outweigh their relatively low market value.
Recently developed techniques are allowing tentative trials of growing cereal grains in a controlled environment unaffected by weather, but the burgeoning energy crisis is hindering the chances of long term success.

Grains take longer to mature than traditional indoor crops like lettuce, hence historically they've exclusively been grown outside, as the energy costs of indoor production can easily outweigh their relatively low market value. Recently developed techniques are allowing tentative trials of growing cereal grains in a controlled environment unaffected by weather, but the burgeoning energy crisis is hindering the chances of long term success.

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Growing cereal crops indoors would only be feasible in a situation where there was basically unlimited energy available at extremely low cost. The net zero madness that is sweeping the western world, we'll be lucky to have the energy available to cook a loaf of bread, let alone grow the fucking wheat indoors. There is also the small issue of scale, cereal crops are grown on millions of acres. The yeild benefits of a controlled environment would be modest and could never overcome the scale issues.

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Another article meant to continue planting seeds (pun intended) about the lies of climate change and other fear porn narratives.