Proposal: Food Stuffs

[knightofrubus]

One thing I could see the project doing is also 'making' food. Theres work being done to take C02 as a feedstock for a live culture that can be then turned into what amounts to flour without need grain. It's still in its infancy but I could easily see PB1 and PB2 having dedicated bioreactors to churn out a similar product.

[mmartin798]

Originally Posted by knightofrubus

One thing I could see the project doing is also 'making' food. Theres work being done to take C02 as a feedstock for a live culture that can be then turned into what amounts to flour without need grain. It's still in its infancy but I could easily see PB1 and PB2 having dedicated bioreactors to churn out a similar product.

This would probably be the way PB and PB2 (Maybe Exigency Base, though that doesn't roll of the tongue well) would be making food stocks. There are some articles a the VTT website about their work in cellular agriculture. The recently produced egg whites this way. They have grown things that look like vegetable paste using a variety of plant cell cultures and bioreactors that stand up nutritionally to their plant counter parts, though they have radically diferent textures. They also did work on using solar power to convert CO2 to a protein that looks and could probably be used like a vegetable protein in food production. Their site is worth a look for ideas:

https://www.vttresearch.com/en