Food Out of This Air - A New Piece in the Sustainable Food Puzzle? 

Why thank you! Much appreciated. Interesting stuff!

@@theflexitariantimes8140 Hi Vince, new here! I hoped your channel to continue. What happened?

@@Sekir80 I appreciate that! In a nutshell, competing responsibilities crowded it out. The thing that I think makes the videos worth watching is the research and visual style with lots of custom graphics creation and b-roll. Researching, writing and producing a video this way meant I could come up with one every couple of weeks max. That means that total viewing hours accumulate slowly so it becomes difficult to reach the monetization threshold. If I can find a way to maintain the quality content while streamlining the production process, I may give it another go. There's more to talk about than ever!

@@theflexitariantimes8140 Okay, I get it, 100% ! Could you advice where should I look/read to know more about the subject?

There are a few good newsletters covering this stuff, but generally, The Good Food Institute is a wonderful resource.@@Sekir80

I appreciate the encouragement! Hopefully I'll be able to give this more time. As for working in the area I think you'll find that MANY companies in the space will be eager to hire you, you'd find it rewarding and possibly even lucrative work AND the world needs people like you! It ain't gonna change itself.

@@theflexitariantimes8140 I'm most certainly aware of that. I'll do my best!

I see what you did there :)

Wow, thank you!

Thank you so much!

Thanks! Maybe time for a new video or two...

Hmmm

It’s an honor. Welcome to our exclusive little club 😎

A food science colleague of mine at Rebellyous Foods moved on to Triton Algae Innovations, and intend learn more from her and do a video on this very topic. Yes, I think this is a big and near-term piece of the alt-protein puzzle!

Thank you very much! I'll try :)

Thank you

Correct. Thus the electricity. (Clarity is often a victim of brevity!) The air is where the CO2 comes from.

Thanks! There are so many companies pushing the envelope with Precision Fermentation that it's hard to pick a winner. Kind of like in the mid 90's and deciding that maybe Pets.com had a better future than Amazon! I'll probably address this question in a future video.

That is an excellent question. Although I'm probably not the best equipped to answer, it does seem to me that it will be open to disruption by emerging companies. Much like IBM didn't end up owning the home computer market, or Motorola the phone market, creative companies who understand the space will thrive. Incumbents who rely on large landholdings, massive processing infrastructure and complex supply chain and logistics structures will be at no particular advantage, and may in fact find themselves burdened with dead assets. Decentralized production and access to cheap, clean energy (which should be ubiquitous in 40 - 50 years) will define this new marketplace...at least that's how I see it today.

I think you can buy milk products in Germany based on precision fermentation, but not yet in the UK. I don't think its licensed yet.

Yes. I find it sad the world has turned away from Nuclear Energy. We need an International Safety Inspectorate to ensure accidents don't happen. The one in Russia was incredibly poorly run--a Nuclear Expert friend went through the ex-Soviet Union helping them to put safety into their systems, he was horrified by their lack of basic safety. The Japanese Nuclear Plant was known to be hazardous for over ten years before the accident. Still renewable technologies are improving & perhaps will be practical in another ten years time. Geothermal with the latest breakthrough shows great promise.

Oh, he's still around... lurking. Short story is that I took on some work that limited my time, and I accepted that my production style is fiddly and time consuming, and not well suited to the 'just hit record and start talking' style of more successful RU-vid content. If I couldn't regularly create a video or 2 per week, there was no way I was going to monetize this channel. I'm still mulling this over. There's a lot of interesting stuff to talk about in this space, and if I get inspired with a way to go about it, I may relaunch in the future. Thank you for watching and commenting!

That is a great question! A couple reasons - first being that I've taken a position doing some communications work for a plant-based meat company that is in growth mode, and so my time has been limited. Which leads to the second reason, which is that I tend to make editorial and graphics-intensive explainer videos, and it takes a relatively large chunk of time to make one. I am considering reviving the channel more in the mold of many of the more successful RU-vid channels by lowering the production values and increasing the frequency. To succeed on RU-vid, one needs to publish with frequency and consistency, and the style of my videos has been an obstacle to both of those things! Thank you for asking.

We'd have to eat a lot of tablets to get enough calories.

That’s essentially what junk food is, particularly dry forms. And no, our stomachs wouldn’t shrink. Instead, we’d eat more of them, because they aren’t boring tablets - they’re tablets scientifically designed to be insanely delicious and addictive.

The way I've been making these videos is pretty old-school and labor intensive to write, edit, do graphics work, etc. and has proven to be unsustainable to me. I am considering a refresh with more 'RU-vid'-like production values. A digest of current news in food tech. That type of thing.

From the Air Protein site as of 1/30/24: "Air Protein is rich in vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, with all 20 amino acids, including the 9 essential amino acids and 2x the amino acids of soybeans." Not a complete answer, although it's probably discoverable with a little research. Air Protein seems to have made a lot of technical and strategic partnering progress in 2 years.

Gosh, thank you!

Real? Yes. Stock pump? Neither solar foods nor Air Protein are public. Something to keep an eye on though.

@@theflexitariantimes8140 Don't have to be public to hunt whales.

I have seen this technology featured in another documentary. It was a British production. BBC?

Ha! Just caught that myself about 10 min ago 😖

Much appreciated! His latest videos are slick, but maybe a little more abstract?

Ha! Maybe your hate will drive me to get busy and produce more. Right as I'd gotten stated, I took an internal communications roll with a plant-based meat startup, and was too lazy to try and do both. I have much of that time back now, so looking to do a video on the state of cultured meat, the future of plant-based meat in a price-driven economy, and more. Open to suggestions! Also considering a format that isn't a labor intensive to produce!