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You can go half way and just use micro organisms like algae. Those are very easy to keep alive, they really just need sun and CO2. Then you can use the sugars a
by usrn 4y ago
You can go half way and just use micro organisms like algae. Those are very easy to keep alive, they really just need sun and CO2. Then you can use the sugars and lipids as feed stock for the next step.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoAlgae are not that easy to keep alive, unless you are skimming a wild pond, or harvesting kelp or something. At that point you might as well get your sugars from conventionally farmed plants.
- usrn 4y agoI grow it myself. Occasionally you have to replenish the nitrates and I keep it in a climate controlled area but other than that it takes pretty much no effort to keep alive.
- throwawaymaths 4y ago> keep it in a climate controlled area Try scaling that to 1km^2 and come back to me. And that's not even accounting for making modifications or algae husbandry to try to improve yields, which will cripple your algae ability to fend off things that want to eat it, etc.