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https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/can-nasas-new-gluten-free-protein-powder-save-the-world-r5083/
A new protein powder, Solein, made out of nothing more than CO₂, water and electricity (well...uhhh...plus other stuff?). The result is a high-protein, flour-like product that contains 50 percent protein, 5–10 percent fat, and 20–25 percent carbohydrates. Based on a concept developed by NASA, the product has wide potential as a carbon-neutral source of protein. Best of all, it looks and tastes like regular flour, but is completely gluten-free.
[...]Solar Foods makes Solein by extracting CO₂ from air using carbon-capture technology, and then combines it with water, nutrients and vitamins, using 100 percent renewable solar energy from partner Fortum to drive a natural fermentation process similar to the one used to produce yeast and lactic acid bacteria.
The company claims its single-celled protein is "free from agricultural limitations." Solein's manufacturing process is carbon neutral and highly scalable. The company is set to make the ingredient available for a wide variety of food products following its launch in 2021.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday March 13 2020, @01:05AM (8 children)
No food I can think of. Don't care how much electricity (which, no matter how much I look, can't find on the Periodic table) you add to it
Unless you're using that electricity to turn that C03H2 into, I dunno, broccoli building blocks. Which I somehow suspect takes a lot of electricity, not to mention concrete containment domes and lead shielding.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by NickM on Friday March 13 2020, @01:21AM (3 children)
I a master of typographic, grammatical and miscellaneous errors !
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snotnose on Friday March 13 2020, @02:30AM (2 children)
From the first sentence:
Then the "(uhh, other stuff?)".
Leads one to believe they're hyping the CO2 and H2O and hoping you don't notice the "vitamins and stuff" part.
TBH, I didn't RTFA, just the summary. But hype is hype, and 9 times out of 10 hype is bullshit.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 13 2020, @03:01AM (1 child)
I added the "(uhh, other stuff?)" because i thought: who are they trying to kid.
"It's completely magic!
plus slight of hand...nothing to see here...don't look at thisSeems interesting, but the way the article was written was a bit insulting to the intelligence.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @08:03PM
Makes me think of Feynman's story about the painter [everydayscientist.com] who says he makes yellow paint out of mixing red and white paints.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Friday March 13 2020, @05:59AM
it's got electrolytes!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @07:57AM
Sugar is basically a buncho of Cs, Os, and Hs combined in a specific shape. So yeah you can make food out of those. Of course healthy food containing a balance of nutrients is another matter entirely.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @11:21AM
let me try to explain:
they do not blend CO2 and H2O, they are making a "lab photosynthesis", picking up the C, the O and the H from CO2 and H2O (and probably some N, K, P from other sources) and react to produce proteins , fat [britannica.com] and carbohydrates [socratic.org]
Now this what plants do... doing this in labs is hard and not usually efficient, but if they manage to do that in efficient ways, it is a good thing... if not, the old nature plant lab is still the most efficient way to turn basic and simple products in complex and higher energy products
(Score: 1) by VacuumTube on Friday March 13 2020, @12:23PM
"No food I can think of."
That means that obesity will not, after all, become the badge of honor intimated by the article. To quote His Swollen Orangeness, "Sad. Very sad."