They might have a chance too. There are plenty of ways of making edible fats from crude oil, but it is generally not allowed by governments (hard to make it pu

They might have a chance too. There are plenty of ways of making edible fats from crude oil, but it is generally not allowed by governments (hard to make it pure enough to be safe, protectionism by the food industry). However, CO2 derived fats are much harder to argue against. That makes this one of the places where something that makes little thermodynamic sense might actually make financial sense nonetheless.