Posted on 04/16/2025 9:53:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
Nothing will be allowed- they want people to die.
I prefer the Spanish chain link method: chain in fire, each person gets links wrapped around there heads & bodies. Let the heat do its work. Then there is the African tire necklace method which uses burning tires instead of chain.
“It’s people!”
You have just described in minute detail the entire Left...............
I doubt it will last another ten...............
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Oh, so just Soylent (white people) Green, then...?
But England will still have the Yeomen of the Guard, the famed Bugeaters
Opportunities for the creation of “hybrid” food products.
Ain’t socialism grand Moe.
More importantly, WHY THE HELL is government paying for it???
And why would people hire on to do this “research”?
There are very sick people in the government and academic / research areas.
Industrially produced foods will be essential if and when we move to long distance space travel and long term bases, even colonization, on the moon, Mars, or other extra-terrestrial bodies.
It might even have some niche uses if we ever attempted to build self-sustaining long term bases in some extreme terrestrial locations such as the seafloor, deep underground, or Antarctica. I don’t know what line of research would ever lead us to that, short of a Dr. Strangelove scenario, but ... I would not be surprised if some of our centi-billionaire eccentrics are already doing it on the theory that three remote bugout fortresses to ride out Armageddon aren’t enough, and they need a fourth.
The answer to academics pushing this sort of thing, however, should be swift and robust. If they think it’s a good idea, build a test facility underground, go live in it for 20 years, and report back on how it went. Just to make the test realistic, we’ll seal the entrances to ensure no cheating. I’ll even contribute to the GoFundMe campaign.
The real problem with nutball leftists is not that they come up with bizarre ivory tower theories. I’m reasonably open to those, with the proviso that boosters actually develop and test their whatever first. But leftists rarely want to do this; they want to impose their scheme on the rest of us because they’re drunk on theory and do not admit opposing opinions. There’s no harm in trying to build a better mousetrap. If it is indeed better, the implementation will take care of itself.
Net Zero is a fantasy but it could destroy everything if the Craziest Politicians are running the Circus
NO CHEESE! F that!
This is the space food you speak of. Go into my history I detail it a number of times.
https://www.wired.com/story/plants-growing-in-darkness/
https://newatlas.com/environment/solein-protein-sustainable/
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/10/12/409
This tech turns out huge amounts of HCL and NaOH in concentrated liquid form no gasses involved. This is the holy grail of the chloroalkaline industry.
NaOH can be used to extract proteins from any green plant source, leaves, stalks, cactus pads, agave leaves. You shread it soak it with NaOH then press the liquids out and heat the juice you get the proteins drop out as solids. You just turned inedible material into high quality protein mass.
The left over solids you send to step two. HCL will depolymerize both cellulose and hemicellulose to their original sugars C6 and C5 at nearly 100% sugar yields. We call that food. Every aerobic cell on earth burns C6 glucose which is what cellulose is made of millions of glucose stuck together on links. HCL breaks those links and give back the original sugar the photosynthesis made.
This tech means every plant on earth can be turned into food every other animal can eat. Yes cows can eat grass, actually they cannot their symbiotic bacteria eat grass and produce acetate and protein in the last two stomach chambers that the cows actually eat. This process is less than 10% efficient it’s easy to see the huge piles of cow droppings is nearly all undigested you can still see the original structure of the grass if you pull apart the droppings. It takes 10lbs of feed to 1 lb of total live weight. That’s corn feed it’s closer to 100:1 for grasses and herbaceous matter.
Using bioreactor tech to hydrolysis the same grasses would yield 80% sugars and 20% lignin. Those sugars feed to pigs is 3:1, chickens is 2:1 and fish is 1:1 feed ratios. You could feed those sugars to single cell protein microbes and get a 1:1 ratio at 80% protein content by mass. With all 20 amino acids and the 9 essential ones. Skip the animal all together and just eat the SCP as a powder in breads ,pastas, power bars, liquid shakes ect.
As long as no insects, manure or democrats are involved, I could probably learn to like it, provided that I had a reliable supply of the right spices and could still get ice cream.
As a serious matter, I’d be willing to sample this stuff if it reaches the market. If I liked it, I’d continue to eat it. I don’t object in principle to synthetic foods. I do object in principle to eco cultists trying to impose this by mandates.
How soon do you think we might see a mass market rollout? Are any of these products already out there in specialty stores?
My reaction too. Brits are already known for their woefully poor dental hygiene. Nix the calcium in dairy products and the outcome is dire.
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