I read a book like this in elementary school. The problem with combining a human with a photosynthetic organism is that energy requirements to support the human body vastly exceeds what photosynthesis could acquire. Our energy would dip at night. Unless you could keep the current adaptations of humans and add photosynthetic bonus to the human genome.
@@TransasaurusRex .. No. 7 years vegan. Blood test is fine. The doctor was amazed !!! Yeast is B12. Teaspoon 500% !!!!! And it’s natural 🦠 (hint hint 🥖🍞B12 ). Or marmite teaspoonful 480% !!!!! . Are you a vegan ?? Or are you hurting innocent animals, bludgeoned to death, for a burger. 5 minute burger et cetera ?????
@@VeganV5912 I'm a meat eater, yes, but basically just meat, making a burger would involve the inferior fuel source, carbohydrates, which had proven to be useless for me as I just gian weight from eating carbs, even so called "good carbs" which is why i advocate for a high fat low carb, mostly meat based diet
Watching my video back it is clear that Dr. Lisa Dyson is pretty amazing and that deserves more attention than I gave it. She has a PhD from MIT and has done research at Stanford, Berkeley, and Princeton as well as being a Fulbright Scholar. All of this while being incredible humble so I applaud her for getting all of this in motion.
I'd go for Air Palm Oil in a heartbeat. In fact I'd be happy with Air Anything that replaces giant monocultures and extractive industries like fishing to let the land that they're grown on and the ocean they swim in recover.
There is also a Finnish company called Solar Foods. They are the first company to produce food by using air-captured CO2 in a continuous mode. They have a product called Solein. If I remember correctly they got the funding last year to start a factory.
Exactly, there is no alternative to nature and people should understand this (by the way you can have a second hand guitar and learn it :D): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8PQ4svtAfmI.html
i had mind blown moment a while back when i realize two things: 1) trees literally grow out of thin air. wood is made of carbon that gets pulled from the air 2) when people lose weight they're literally breathing it out. fat is hydrocarbons. when it gets burned the carbon gets released into the blood and gets exhaled through the lungs
Cos growing Forest Gardens produce max food per acre, provide Wildlife habitats, and Carbon Sinks, while the connection to nature and the plants we eat is life affirming! 🌎✊🏽🌻✌🏽
Mic I love that you did your undergrad on photobioreactors. I was just looking for new photobioreactor papers. Found one that looked like a tree. They called it a bionic tree design. Anyway about the video, I look into these a few times a year (solarfoods is another one) and I think we'll be seeing more of them. There are so many undiscovered microbes and chemoautotrophs specifically.
@@aSyMbolden I used to buy into the carb myth. I don't know how I didn't realize this but now I it funny that people say we're addicted to carbs when if I offered someone the option of baked fries vs deep fried fries, they wouldn't think twice about choosing the fried ones, unless they were trying to be healthy o_0
Watch 'Apocalypse Cow' with George Monboit in it. It is covered in that, he visits the Finnish scientists behind the same kind of product, he visits their lab and they show you the process.
That's funny timing! I actually asked myself a few days ago why we don't use the 78% nitrogen from our atmosphere and rather rely on proteins to get it. Turns out, Nitrogen as a gas is really, really stable and needs too much energy to be taken apart and absorbed.
Interesting, and various aspects and ramifications examined. Thanks. Nice surprise to see the old picture. I probably wouldn't have recognized it as Mic. I like the current look... 'Havaa khaanaa' or eating air is a somewhat familiar Hindi expression, for chilling, sauntering etc. outdoors. 😊.
Wow! After 2020, the bad news year, anything positive is welcome, but this is really exciting! I thought water from air was amazing, but this has awesome possibilities! Thanks for researching and pointing this out! :-))) 👍👍👍😀😃😄
My guess is when it becomes cost efficient, fast food chains will bread it, deep fry it and serve it with a dipping sauce and it will become the new nuggets. It will go beyond that but for starters that is one. Another plus, not needing refrigeration it will be much cheaper to transport as flour.
I wonder if they could actually produce a lot of top beneficial phytonutrients that way. I feel like plant farming could in many ways be more efficient in producing the best of food considering the effects of whole foods vs singled out nutrients + regarding taste properties, texture, appealing looking. But in terms of replacing any oils and animal products, perhaps also some processed foods such as soy or wheat protein, this looks like a very meaningful substitute.
Good video Mic. You rock. I'm sure you have learned since posting this that hydrolysis is splitting with water, electrolysis is splitting with electricity. It's a common slip-up. :-) Anyway, thank you for your continued efforts.
Reminds me of that Sliders episode where the food was made using technology and it tasted of whatever the person eating it imagined. In the sense they could make any food they imagined.
They aren't the first to do this. Finnish scientists made a protein pancake for Geroge Monbiot back in Jan 2020 there is a BBC programme about it. It's a protein flour like soya, same as Air Proteins comments about a protein flour. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07zt1hs
Air plants are not called "air ferns" by anyone. They are a type of bromeliad from the genus Tillandsia and are true plants. They are in fact angiosperms and highly derived plants with specific adaptations to epiphytic living.
Mic, pls look up Precision Fermentation. I believe this is what you are talking about. A good reference is RethinkX (a california think tank) with Tony Seba. Also the Good Food Institute (GFI) with Nate Crosser. He has a presentation that explains this. Precision Fermentation is a natural process, which mskes things like beer and bread, they have now just taken this a step up. Precision Fermentation is on the cusp of disrupting food and agricultural production. Pls make a video!
I'm very interested to see how this turns out. See if it's going to be healthy like eating whole plant Foods. Or if it's going to be a process refined product like what is currently on the market. Only time will tell!
Hey Mic! I love your content, I've been a subscriber forever. I just want to say that it's good that you toned down the jokes on this one, usually a lot of your content is serious and interesting and not having a whole lot of jokes just suits it more.
While a cool idea, how is this any different from Mycoprotien that's been in production for decades? We already have fungus based protein that's sold under the Quorn brand. It's cool that they can get oils and carbohydrates out of this process, but it doesn't seem that special.
Or you get Carbon heat conducting fibres that heat directly from a hydrothermal vent or lava deposit to super heat an area in which these microorganisms thrive. Take the residual methane gas and compress it for use.
Nice to see your channel still going strong after all these years. Man your voice has completely changed. It sounds very high pitched now. What happened ?
You need to consume lives to sustain your own life be it animals or plants. You can’t just consume chemical compounds. There is more to humans than the chemical compounds that we are created from.
The more clean water becomes hard to get, the more we will reinvent how we make food. Growing animals to get meat is like leaving a sprinkler on day and night. Animal derived food will get more expensive as water gets more expensive so we will need to find new ways like the method in this video.
Interesting....Science is crazy. I think I will stick to a Whole Foods plant-based diet! BTW your eyes are dreamy! Keep doing what you do! You’re awesome!
I read a paper that suggested that in an increasingly rich CO2 environment, plants will have lower and lower N content... As long as we don't run out of N someday, I guess that will be the next problem...
Hey mic can u do another video about similar topics, the next one could be on single cell proteins or protein from woodchips and also about remilk milk made from bacteria fermentation
Are the products they are making from the flour (specifically the air protein meat in the picture you showed) completely vegan? It would be great to know if they are committed to creating only vegan products if they are making food products themselves.
As a breatharian this scares the crap outta me, who knows what this crap will do to you body, will it hold people back from their own inner evolution? So many choose the easy way I smh.
This is preferable to eating insects, which gets brought up every once in a while. We already have fermented foods and bacteria inside us. But they will probably discover some health issue with it 50 years later. We need more plants growing not bacteria factories.
*Mic the Vegan* [5:10]: _“… or you can take the methane by-product and by adding a ton of heat and pressure you can do what is called ‘natural gas reforming’ where you basically reverse the reaction and create the hydrogen and carbon dioxide…”_ - Dude, you got it wrong. That scheme [5:16 on] isn’t of “natural gas [methane steam] reforming” but of methane cracking. The end products of methane cracking aren’t H2, CO2 and thermal energy (since methane steam reforming releases net energy) but H2 and carbon powder.
its a lie. you will die without water in few days. and in about month or so without food, depending on how active you are. if you drink water while not eating you can survive for longer than a month.
