Power-to-Food

Basics

• Conversion of Electricity (ie power) to Animal Feed or Food
• Essentially making marmate/vegamite from hydrogen/syngas/methane eating microbes, can be fed to animals or used as is
• Also microbes can be genetically modified to produce flavor chemicals such as Capcasin etc ( The Thought Emporium has some great videos on this)
• Things such as protien powder, sugar, or agar could also be made this way
• Plant Factories do this to a certain extent as well

Internal Links

• Power-to-X

External Links

• A Paper on the Concept
• The Wikipedia Page on Methylococcus capsulatus, a methanotroph used commercially to produce animal feed from non-renewable methane (ie standard "Natural Gas" )
• A Bacteria , Melaleuca quinquenervia , that feeds off of methane emitted by trees
• A 1990 Study Titled "Hydrogen-Oxidizing Bacteria for Biomass Production"