- much less land required, and can use any land (or even at sea), under any weather - simpler to handle vats of gloop than all those leaves, stems, seeds, etc

- much less land required, and can use any land (or even at sea), under any weather - simpler to handle vats of gloop than all those leaves, stems, seeds, etc - possibly more efficient than photosynthesis' woeful c. 1% Obviously you're not expected to eat a plate of this stuff, it would be high-protein 'fill' for other food, pastes/sauces, breads, etc, or for animal feed This is likely to be much more expensive than just clearing some "free" rainforest and planting soy/corn/etc, but that needs to be addressed anyway. We need to start returning a large % of agricultural land to nature, not just stop taking more, which will mean using the land left much more efficiently and/or organically, and creating more of these direct-synthesis approaches to food production for staples. I see a possibility that many commodity grains could be produced by direct synthesis, especially if they are mainly used as flours or feed. Imagine being able to reforest, or re-prairy (or whatever it wants to do) most cereal land.