This Aljezeera clip documents sun powered (at least in theory) artificial climate agriculture under test in Qatar. It's a bit like renewable energy vs oil itself; as the price of the new comes down and the price of the old goes up -- due to resource constraints, or social or political instability, or for any reason, these "vertical farms" must become an important part of the future.
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