[jobe_br]

Nevermind that land used for energy often isn’t suitable for farming, so … even with the hypothesis, limited as it is, it’s flawed.

[TheCoelacanth]

Less suitable than empty air 10 feet above the ground?

How is vertical farming powered by solar panels better than building the same artificial growing environment at ground-level and powering it with sunlight?

[trickstra]

Because you can put the solar panels above a parking lot. You can't directly compare land area for growing with land area for solar panels, qualitatively, they are two very different lands. We have more of the latter.

[monkeycantype]

Yes this could save a lot of arable or environmentally significant land, even if it didn't save a net m^2