'Butter' made from CO2 could pave the way for food without farming
'Butter' made from CO2 could pave the way for food without farming
US start-up Savor says its synthetic vegan fat, made without livestock or the crops needed for margarine, could cut carbon emissions and save rainforests
But margarine already exists... Rapeseed oil makes great butter alternatives.
That's still farming. This is literally a synthetic chemical reactor that takes in CO2 and probably hydrogen, and spits out food.
It would push as another trophic level down, like happened with the agricultural revolution thousands of years ago.
I've been surprised by how little I've heard about this kind of research in the past. There's Air Company vodka, and a startup useing hydrogen bacteria to make a sort of egg white, but I had to dig a lot to hear about either of those.
Basic biology will tell you that very little energy passes all the way through a trophic level, so food production should be much, much cheaper at scale if we can do it like autotrophs. Farming will inevitably be replaced, at least in part, one day.
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Yes, somebody please post the full article. I'm poor.
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