Posted on 03/18/2024 12:04:27 PM PDT by Red Badger
Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos will not be eating mold...
I bet they do all the time and so do most people. Soy sauce is made with this exact species of fungus, so is sake. Brie cheese is literally covered with mold and it is the mold enzymes that make it liquidy on the inside. Blue cheese is almost half mold by weight. Every had salami? Yup it’s inoculated with bacteria and then mold on the rind which is eaten as well. The list of foods made with or of mold is huge. Humans have used molds for tens of thousands of years. Beer is fermented with mold , so is wine. That nice cloudy unfiltered unpasteurized IPA that you spent $15 on...what do you think the hazy part is? Live mold cells floating in your expensive beer.
Having a high protein single cell protein or multiple cell fungus with all 9 amino acids grown on waste or low cost substrates; or better yet electro synthesized substrates like acetic acid and it’s conjugate base. Boffins have already succeeded in making acetic acid from nothing more than water, CO2 from the Air and electricity at high faraday efficiency and in very dense electrocells. Why you ask is this important? The very best land plants only convert 1% of solar insolation into total plant biomass that’s roots,stalks,and leaves, plus any edible parts such as corn kernels. Corn is not at 1% it’s much less same for rice, wheat and barley. The top spot for terrestrial plants goes to Agave Weber a CAM plant it beats all other C4 and C3 plants at 1% sun to biomass.
A typical polysilicon solar cell turns 21% of solar insolation to electric DC output. That’s a factor of 20 times better than the very best land plant and 40 times more than the average land plant. The boffins who did the electricity to acetic acid had a 70+% faraday efficiency they came up with a result of 18 times as much carbon fixed into carbohydrate form vs the very best land plant. This means for a given square meter of land area you can make 18 times more total fixed carbon. Remember only a small fraction of a corn plant is the kernels so compared to total biomass vs edible biomass the electro synthesized route is 40 to 100 time more productive. Fungus grows quite well on acetic acid, turns out you can also grow ecoli,and various other single cell protein organisms. Vascular plants also can be grown in a liquid carbon base or mild acid acetic being one. So far rice,potatoes, tomatoes, and corn have been grown hydroponicly in the total darkness using acetic acid as not only the carbon source but the energy source as well. Think deep space food production or industrial warehouse stack and pack floor to ceiling high density food production. With a stack and pack protein organisms in racks or tanks next door. 100% nutrition in a fraction of the area. Solar panels also don’t care about desert conditions way to inhospitable for crops to grow in rows. Going to electro synthesized substrates let’s you take nonarible land and make huge amounts of food from them at 40 times the rates of just growing row crops.
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