Posted on 06/23/2022 10:37:28 AM PDT by LibWhacker
What could possibly go wrong?
Frankenfood’s latest evolutionary leap
Chemosynthesis is what organisms deep in the ocean use to survive where there is no light.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
Preparations for the return of the Savior when he darkens the Earth for cries of repentance and remorse for being sinners, and yet there are none and they choose to continue in the Darkness...
May they find the Lord Almighty Father sooner rather than never (later will not be when to meet the Lord)
No thanks. I prefer my food WITH SUNSHINE. That's why I shop at Sunshine Foods...
They want to build moon communities in large comet craters. This might be cool to have dark plant farms for food. Or maybe work in underground survival shelters.
Just in time to save mankind form the massive increase of UVR caused by the collapse of the geomagnetic field....
No mushrooms for you.
“Plants are growing in complete darkness...”
But are they happy?
mushrooms...
Fascinating.
Can’t you just use the LED lights the pot growers use indoors???
You could use led lights, the fundamental limits are the efficiency of photosynthesis conversion of photonic energy to chemical energy via the ATP cycle it’s limited to 1% or so regardless of the light source.
Solar panels are 20+% efficient at turning a photon into electrons. This means you start off with at least 20 times the per square meter of sunlight in output of energy conversions. Then they use this much higher density of energy to turn water and CO2 into an organic molecule that plants,yeast or fungi can literally eat. It’s genus actually and will help humans leave this rock for the stars. It also allows for the underground growing of food using geothermal or nuclear energy no sunlight needed with high efficiency and density. Humans now have the means to survive a KT event scale impact by creating deep mine based shelters with nuclear or geothermal energy sources to clean water make oxygen via electrolysis and now directly make food via electrolysis. It should be noted that the primary energy sources in cattle rumens is also acetic acid produced via their microbial symbiotic relationship in their guts. You could feed cattle the output of this process directly and with a nitrogen source such as ammonia or urea grow cattle or sheep or goats completely off electricity ,water and CO2 it is nothing short of a quantum leap in human innovation. Science! For the big win.
Humans can live in caves, or nuke shelters
We have artificial light.
Maybe we can invent pods like in the matrix movie
Look at that diagram very carefully. Sure doesn’t look very efficient. Odd that they are using sunshine to power their operation. Let’s ramp that operation up to support a million people. Looks similar to the cold fusion just around the corner with no economic analysis.
I'll stick with these mushrooms. They grow in the sunshine...with the proper fertilizer. ;~]
There has been a number of companies who have used microbial life to make food be it protein or starches or lipids. The Soviets used naptha to grow microbial proteins for animal feed on a scale of millions of kg per year. The British used natural gas to do the same thing during the 1970s and 80s using methogenic bacteria. UT Austin GMO a cyanobacteria to grow and excrete glucose directly from it’s cellular membranes while growing in salt water. Glucose is the base molecule for all cellular respiration including humans it is what is in IV fluids given people who cannot eat you can live on glucose , protein and lipids given via IV fluids btw. UT then designed a Ecoli to take electricity and also excrete pure glucose using the hydrogen proton path way off one side of a electrolysis cell with CO2 dissolved like a soda in the water. They succeeded in turning salt water.CO2 and electricity into the base food for every life form on earth that is aerobic that means every mammal, every avian, and all other vertebrates like fish and reptiles. Every one of them has at the base of it’s biological imperative the need for 6 carbon glucose. Everything any of them eats is turned into glucose ultimately by the digestive process and used for cellular respiration. Humans have the technology to leap well above what nature has in efficiency by a factor of 20 or more. Our livestock could care less if they eat single cell protein or not. Same for carbohydrates they could care less if its glucose or sucrose or starches from GMO tanks or sugar cane fields or corn fields once in pelleted feed form they could care less.
And they will call it soylent brown.🙄
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