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Curious how they're reluctant to mention that one of their ingredients is ammonia. It's immediately obvious that you can't make protein from just CO2 and H2 but
by contravariant 5y ago
Curious how they're reluctant to mention that one of their ingredients is ammonia. It's immediately obvious that you can't make protein from just CO2 and H2 but for some reason NH3 is only mentioned in one somewhat hidden location on their website and nowhere else.
- jryb 5y agoThe pitch video is pretty heavily oriented towards investors - much of it was dedicated to their current grants and collaborative partners, and implies they're still developing the process. I can imagine they're working on CO2 sequestration first since customers would sign up for that just for greenwashing purposes, and they'll try to do nitrogen fixation afterwards to make it genuinely sustainable. I doubt most people even realize there's a problem with the whole CO2->protein concept. They do show a diagram where an electrolyzer is used to generate H2 and that's pumped directly into the fermentation vessel. Maybe they're engineering the yeast or whatever they're using to metabolize H2 and also gave them a nitrogenase. Is this even feasible?