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Most vegetation is made out of air and water. Mostly air. C, O, and N come from air. H comes from water, and some of that comes from water in air. The inputs from dirt are under 5% of plant mass. They have to be, or farms would dig holes in the ground.

Feynman talk on this.[1]

So, with that out of the way, what does this company actually have?

* They have a cool web site with no useful info.

* They have another web site with useful info.[2]

* You can't even order samples of the product.

* They have a useful Wikipedia article.[3]

* It's a fermentation process, so it takes heat and water, not just air.

* They've been around since at least 2019 and have burned through about $20 million in funding.

* None of their PR discusses cost of the product.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/09/25/161753383/t...

[2] https://solarfoods.com/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods

parent Animats 4 years ago

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