Start-up leverages power of AI to enable more cost-effective acceleration of greenhouse agriculture

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When Roman started the company in 2017, machine learning had finally gotten good enough that it was possible to analyze huge amounts of data to identify mineral targets just as the amount of new discoveries using traditional methods plummeted. While the company’s drilling rigs don’t rely on cutting-

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Without a significant infusion of capital, vertical farms won't be cropping up in every city anytime soon. They're expensive both to get up and running and to operate, with high energy costs in order to power thousands of LED lights and sophisticated ventilation systems.

On the latest episode of the Most Innovative Companies podcast, Irving Fain, founder and CEO of the vertical farming company Bowery, explains how being an outsider to agriculture has helped him come up with new ideas.

“All plants need CO2,” Ruser observed. “And if you supply more to them, they become stronger.” Eggplants in particular, he said, thrive on lots of carbon dioxide; for their sake, he might crank the level way up, to as much as a thousand parts per million—more than double the level in the outside world. He needed to be careful, though. He was paying

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