Re: food from space

http://www.drtomorrow.com/lessons/lessons7/20.html

The last time land sold in Tokyo it sold for $7.8 BILLION per acre.

Central park is worth over $600 million per acre

http://ask.yahoo.com/20070202.html

Farmland in Iowa costs $4,000 per acre

Farmland in California can cost over $200,000 per acre.

With access to global markets, and 20x productivity advantage, and
zero very low logistical and transportation costs - space farms make
sense.

Using my nuclear pulse approach costs of building a NASA style habitat
and adapting it to agriculture would cost $90,000 per acre. Building
a custom purpose agriculture satellite along NASA designs, reduces
that cost to about $5,000 per acre - which would dramatically
transform agriculture. Lowering it further, with learning curve
reductions in nuclear pulse efficiency - reduces it to $600 per acre.
At this price everyone moves off world.

Basically there are 3.3 billion people who earn less than $2 per day.
Those people are offered homes in 66,000 cloud nine cities each
housing 50,000 - they all have jobs on orbit, producing massive
quantities of things from asteroidal feedstocks, including - space
homes - which they buy after 10 to 12 years of steady labor - so, we
reduce Earth's population by half - and another 2.5 billion middle
income folks join them - to improve their lot. These people grow
rich, just as Americans grew richer than Europeans - and spread across
the solar system

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