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> The concept uses electricity from solar panels and carbon dioxide from the air to create fuel for microbes, which are grown in bioreactor vats and then proces
by Zababa 5y ago
> The concept uses electricity from solar panels and carbon dioxide from the air to create fuel for microbes, which are grown in bioreactor vats and then processed into dry protein powders.
I wouldn't call that "food". It could be a great alternative to current protein powder, and maybe used as flour, but flour isn't food, it's an ingredient.
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- ArkanExplorer 5y agoJust 55 percent of the world's crop calories are actually eaten directly by people. Another 36 percent is used for animal feed. And the remaining 9 percent goes toward biofuels and other industrial uses. https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel-animal-feed#:~:text=Just%2055%20percent%20of%20the,biofuels%20and%20other%20industrial%20uses https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel.... We can obviously drop biofuels immediately, as a complete boondoggle, and replace a far portion of the animal feed with this stuff. It does raise the question though of what the function of the global poor is going to be, since many of them are engaged in agriculture.