I've been surprised by how little I've heard about this kind of research in the past. There's Air Company vodka, and a startup useing hydrogen bacteria to make a sort of egg white, but I had to dig a lot to hear about either of those.
Basic biology will tell you that very little energy passes all the way through a trophic level, so food production should be much, much cheaper at scale if we can do it like autotrophs. Farming will inevitably be replaced, at least in part, one day.
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Yes, somebody please post the full article. I'm poor.
Sorry, here:
Interesting. The obvious limitation here is that while they've made fatty acids, they still need purchased glycerol to attach them to. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a cheap byproduct right now but for the future that needs to be worked on. I'll eagerly await it on store shelves.
Also a fun fact: If they're using fossil carbon, which they probably are, eating this stuff will fuck up any carbon dating preformed on you.