Green Hydrogen Goes To Bat For Sustainable Food Systems
The green hydrogen economy of the future is branching out in new directions, the latest example being a new microbe-based food protein.
The green hydrogen economy of the future is branching out in new directions, the latest example being a new microbe-based food protein.
This week, we again had one of those days in which a single new event changes the trajectory of humanity’s future; a scientific advance that was not expected for another decade, an advance that many expected would take a quantum computer to achieve.
We already know how prolonged drought, high heat and heavy rains prompted by climate change can wreak havoc on agriculture. But there is more disturbing news.
Scientists in Finland have found a way to make protein in the laboratory from electricity and carbon dioxide. The process could reduce the effects of agriculture on a global warming while preventing famines.
Scientists testing how crops react in higher CO2 conditions than now – simulating conditions likely over the next 50 years, say that one effect will likely be that protein content will be reduced by one fifth. Plants lose the ability to absorb as much nitrogen in higher CO2 conditions. Most … [continued]