Argicultural Domes. | Star Frontiers

This is going to get complicated real fast so if you want
to check my math, here is the source material.

http://www.gardensofeden.org/04%20Crop%20Yield%20Verification.htm

OK, doing the math
using the average yield per acre (10.621). One acre can feed four people per
year (10,621/2660=3.99) using 1992 figures.

Since most game designs for starships use meters I figured the smallest agro dome
would be one Hectare (2.47 acres) That means
in todays standards you could feed eight people per dome.

Technobabble time:

For one of these ships to work, you would either have
to make it HUGE or increase the yield by 'x' and Reduce the growing season as
well, so they can export more food than
they use. Of course, you can do this in
many ways, Bioengineering of the crops, and reducing the growing season to three
months. This would quadruple the output of the dome (32). This would allow a
single ship to support a small colony until they are able to get their own food
production up and running. So four domes
would equal 128 people minus 8 people to run the ship (plus robots).

Using these figures for an Agricultural Dome, you kinda
see the problem emerging. In order to
make an impact on a world with a million plus people, the dang thing would have to be enormous.
Unless you increase the crop yield by a 100 or even a 1,000 percent.

Would Star Frontiers be able to support such technology
is the real question here?

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