The corn is as high as a skyscraper’s eye
A professor at Columbia recommends skyscraper farms for New York city, according to this New York magazine article. Now if I were King, I’d approve this on futuristic looks alone, Dr. Despommier (and as a side note, does his name mean “apple picker”?) reasons that his design could make a large city self-sufficient, generate power, and process city waste into fuel. 150 such skyscrapers could feed all of New York City, leaving vast areas of farmland to grow into forests, which would help to stabilize the environment. The skyscraper itself would be more-or-less carbon neutral, using non-edible plant matter, processed into pellets, to generate energy. It could even recycle restaurant waste.
