Posted on 01/09/2024 10:02:19 PM PST by Red Badger
Chinese scientists have developed a cost-effective method of converting coal into protein, which they say could feed livestock much more efficiently than natural plants, while using a tiny fraction of the land.
According to Our World in Data, grazing land for livestock and farming land for animal feed production combine to take up an astonishing 40 million square kilometers (15.4 million square miles) of land. That's well over a quarter of the Earth's entire dry land area, and nearly 40% of the land defined as "habitable."
This is one of the reasons the meat-heavy Western diet is under fire as environmentally unsustainable; growing plants to feed animals makes wretchedly inefficient use of land, which could otherwise be left as forest or used for other purposes.
One solution is moving toward lab-grown meat – but another may be to start producing protein for livestock feed using other methods. This would be a particular boon to China. According to Biotech researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the country is currently forced to import around 80% of its protein raw materials in the form of soybeans and the like – and that's a serious food security issue for the nation.
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The CAS team's process works something like this: firstly, coal is transformed into methanol via gasification – a technique that can now be executed with near-zero carbon emissions. That methanol is then fed to a special strain of Pichia pastoris yeast, which ferments the methanol to produce a single-cell protein complete with a range of amino acids, vitamins, inorganic salts, fats and carbohydrates. The resulting organism is much richer in protein than plants are, and it can be used to partially replace fish, soybeans, meat and skimmed milk in a range of animal feeds.
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Now we can eat coal with our bugs.................
I still prefer an orange in my stocking.
And also emits 1000X as much "ee-vil" carbon dioxide!
Grass grown on pasturelands is renewable - coal, not so much.
Regards,
Soylent beige.
You got oranges???
I was lucky to get a boiled egg!..................
You know where this is going?
Eventually they will eliminate the livestock part, and WE will be eating the protein....................
The carbon in that coal was safely sequestered in the bowels of the Earth. When converted to fodder and fed to livestock, it is eventually released into the atmosphere.
The carbon in natural grass was captured from the atmosphere. That's the difference!
IF you believe in anthropogenic climate change, you should be against coal-to-fodder!
Regards,
We are the carbon they want to get rid of and we are the protein that they want us to eat.
All that carbon in all that coal was once in the atmosphere.
We just need to put it back where it belongs!................
Quote of the day!!!
Now we know why $0R0$ was buying up all the Obama bankrupted coal mines in the world.....................
What’s for dinner . . .
Coal and A1 Sauce.
Omaha “Steaks” Not on the Grill
So after Obama bankrupted the coal industry, those in the know on Wall Street can make a mint on this new tech. I smell a rat.
Dear Mr. Bill Gates:
I have some bad news. Your land investments....
More fake food.
Great. Now they are just trying to contaminate the foods further down the food chain.
Either one tastes better than a chunk of coal.
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