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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @01:20AM (5 children)
Too bad it isn't 50% protein and 50% fat. Having carbohydrates makes the thing a non-starter. Human bodies run far better burning fat than carbohydrates.
Too bad they don't identify the source of the nutrients, vitamins, protein nor if it's a complete protein or not. All those things matter. Since we can't conjure vitamins out of thin air, their claims about being free of agricultural limitations are bullshit. Their source material has to come from somewhere, either plants or animals. Their claims about being carbon neutral and highly scalable aren't much of anything either. Cows are carbon neutral and highly scalable too (the carbon cycle they're in with the grasslands is neutral).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @03:48AM
Something tells me you wouldn't be happy about that either - or anything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @08:03AM (1 child)
The vast majority of livestock -including cows- are fed with feedstock crops, which are grown using artificial fertilizers before being shipped halfway across the world using fossil fuels. In reality there's not much of a cycle there. Livestock is one of the largest contributors to the CO2 problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @02:32PM
Not just meat, same with all fruits and vegetables that get shipped around the world.
All forms of agriculture and not just livestock use a ridiculous amount of resources so the land can produce 10x the amounts of produce compared to non-intensive agricultural practices.
In the winter unless you live in or near the tropics, when you are eating your fresh spinach, lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, avocados, mangoes, kiwi, persimmons, watermelon (who the fxck really needs watermelon in the middle of winter?) be aware they are grown thousands of miles away and shipped to your grocery store. So unless you are eating only locally grown vegetables that can be stored reliably for months in the winter like potatoes, carrots, beets, and onions, or frozen vegetables that you grew yourself (like most family farms did and still do), then you are a big reason why agriculture products contributes so much to CO2: SHIPPING THEM!
Get off your high tofu horse, suck it up and dine only on local potatoes, carrots, onions, and local meat from November-May. Then you can complain about CO2 emissions from shipping meat.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday March 13 2020, @04:55PM
But you're wrong. Just add some water and yeast. The yeast will eat the carbohydrates and convert it into a delicious food.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @03:18AM
Sedentary humans might do better with fat. Athletes need carbs. The liver can't metabolise the fat nearly fast enough to supply me with enough energy to move for longer than about 2 hours at race pace.