A Team of Scientists Just Made Food From Electricity — and it Could be the Solution to World Hunger

Futurism ^ | July 26, 2017 | Tom Ward

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

You want fries with that?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“Sounds like they created typical no-taste vegan foo”

WHAT!” I have had vegan food in Shanghai that was stunning!. Depends on the chef,

[sphinx]

There's nothing "synthetic" about this food, and they're not making it from electricity. They're aquafarming microbes. It's no different in principle from aquafarming tomatoes. Farming microbes is interesting because it might be easily scalable and would lend itself to large scale factory production. Yes, the microbes presumably will require a little more processing to convert into something reasonably palatable for humans, but most of our food is processed already so that's nothing new either.

The interesting question is whether the researchers are using naturally occurring or genetically engineered microbes. If the former, I hope someone is quick enough to make sure that this qualifies as "organic" and "process certified" and "locally produced." It would be fun to build a massive factory farm that mass produces and processes microbes, and plaster the product with every green label available. I hope Monsanto, the Koch brothers, and Exxon collaborate on this, just as payback.

The stuff doesn't have to taste good. Bland and tasteless is ok. Sell it in health food stores with the tofu; greenies like that sort of thing. For the rest of us, add enough onions, garlic, curry powder and a little ground beef, and it will probably do just fine as a nutritious food stretcher.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Good thing electricity is magic.

[Wuli]

The title is TOTALLY misleading.

They did NOT make food “from” electricity.

They made from from MICROBES and WATER.

The USED electricity as a motive power in the operation but NOT as a SOURCE of the food. The main source the food came “from” was microbes. It was not electricity.

Had food actually been made “from” electricity, it would have to be a process that somehow converted the energy in electricity to matter. THAT did not happen. What was converted to food were microbes.

[MomwithHope]

Something tells me they will have a hard time competing with sonic burgers.

[ckilmer]

something to take on a space voyage.

[The Great RJ]

The food replicators from Star Trek

[sport]

Bull.

[Alas Babylon!]

I'd still prefer the steak over the gruel served on the Nebuchadnezzar!

[The Grammarian]

Word, not world.

[JimRed]

IBTFTLC

In Before The First Tastes Like Chicken (?)

[DakotaGator]

LOL!

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“The entire process requires only electricity, water, carbon dioxide, and microbes.”

We already make food from just seeds, water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. There are no benefits from using electricity and microbes. The chances of this process being cost effective or practical approach ZERO.

[TheTimeOfMan]

Sorry Jim - I meant to reply to All.