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NASA's idea for making food from thin air just became a reality — it could feed billions
Here's why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
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Even arable farms wont be needed in the future!
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You can hide a lot of stuff in the section nutrients & vitamins.NASA's idea for making food from thin air just became a reality — it could feed billions
Here's why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
basically all it’s nutrients and vitamins are still provided by other things.
good luck to them making consumers see it as better than natural flour.
Compared with
Wheat,
Wheat seed, rain water, sunlight, carbon capture, fertiliser.
Gives you a wheat flour.
No need for supplements of vitamins and minerals.
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Two things come to mind, how long will it be before the scare story of taking too much CO2 from the atmosphere and causing the next ice age and if CO2 can be extracted from the air using solar power why the f**k isn't the middle east full of solar panels doing just that NOW ? Yes it would need storing but I'm sure that isnt beyond the wit of the world
To little C02 a long long time, and capturing co2 is expensive, unless you let a plant do it.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/resear...al/long-range/forecasts/co2-forecast-for-2023
We release billions of tonnes per year.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-global-co2-emissions-from-fossil-fuels-hit-record-high-in-2022/
So, to do a rewind of our emissions is not going to be overnight.
Here's a novel idea: why don't we bury the 'captured' carbon (in reality it will probably be waste CO2 form an industrial process, so easy to pipe underground, and without the massive energy requirement for a carbon dioxide scrubber), and instead use something called 'crops' to use up some of the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere?
And if you haven't twigged, this new 'wonder food' mentioned by the OP is actually a single cell bacteria grown in a chemical rich soup, not dissimilar to Quorn and their Fusarium Venenatum fungal goop.
And if you haven't twigged, this new 'wonder food' mentioned by the OP is actually a single cell bacteria grown in a chemical rich soup, not dissimilar to Quorn and their Fusarium Venenatum fungal goop.
And let’s not forget all those beef-free burgers based on pea and soy proteins currently gaining popularity. The environmental challenge of scaling up the supply of those plants to meet their high demandNASA's idea for making food from thin air just became a reality — it could feed billions
Here's why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.
Sorry, what? High demand???
I suppose the article was written in 2019….
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So have they reached their $800m to $1.2 billion sales target yet???
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I mean look there's 8 billion people to feed we need all of the help we can get. So good luck to them.
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Sales of 4.5m .... Far cry from what they predicted at this point.
I think our peak industry groups need to start promoting our produce as "natural foods"
Organic command a premium and are sought out by yuppies
Now we have carbon neutral or "clean and green" as another competitor. This factory farming needs calling out for what it is. But their marketing is to clever for that. So it's time to join the club with a natural food movement.
I think our peak industry groups need to start promoting our produce as "natural foods"
Organic command a premium and are sought out by yuppies
Now we have carbon neutral or "clean and green" as another competitor. This factory farming needs calling out for what it is. But their marketing is to clever for that. So it's time to join the club with a natural food movement.
One day they will design something just like a cow…..
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Or a treeOne day they will design something just like a cow…..
This smart ‘tree’ has the environmental benefits of a small forest
Vertical, moss-covered structures have the same benefits as 275 urban trees.
www.weforum.org
The world has gone mad!Or a tree
This smart ‘tree’ has the environmental benefits of a small forest
Vertical, moss-covered structures have the same benefits as 275 urban trees.
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It doesn't matter whether it's fake food or fake trees, it all leads to the same two places: venture capital and the patent office.
There’s some damming evidence of not eating whole food and preservatives reducing some gut bacteria, people who’s diet of processed foods are having poo transplants of healthy poo to improve digestion so they can then process whole foods again
I can’t remember the company doing it but I heard it on a podcast!
The main point of it was poor gut bacteria and depression went hand in hand, and eating real food without preservatives, refined corn and complex carbohydrates was the first step to a healthy life
I can’t remember the company doing it but I heard it on a podcast!
The main point of it was poor gut bacteria and depression went hand in hand, and eating real food without preservatives, refined corn and complex carbohydrates was the first step to a healthy life
Weird how they’re come up with that name isn’t it? Almost as if they’re taking the utter p1ss…..
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We wondered if that would be a way of helping our youngest get over some of his food allergies. Convinced (a lot of) antibiotics in his first 4 months altered, or wiped out, his gut biome. Never pursued it though.
I find overnight oats are a great reset for the gut, week of that and alls good. That’s perhaps not hitech or expensive enough for the modern world though.