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Plan to sell 50m meals made from electricity, water and air
- vbuwivbiu 7y agoyeast
- schiffern 7y ago...are still powered by photosynthesis, because they eat plant-derived material (sugars, etc). This is powered by abiotic hydrogen from electrolysis.
- herogreen 7y agoand carbon.
- incompatible 7y agoProteins, made from carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen, all found in air + water. Some proteins also need sulfur. This is from a cursory glance at Wikipedia.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoThis sounds like a rts video game concept, like Factorio. https://factorio.com/ https://factorio.com/
- chillacy 7y agoOtherwise known as “cracktorio” for programmers.
- londons_explore 7y agoHow many joules of energy are needed per gram of protein...? That's the key number this article should have found out and quoted. They should have compared it to grow-lamps and other closed-environment food production methods. If the numbers didn't look good, they should have also quoted an engineer saying "this is what we can do now, but we hope to get it down to X, and it theoretically can go as low as Y". Those numbers could have been brought into context by saying "with current solar technology, that means the whole world population could be fed with solar panels the size of Ethiopia".