CHON
The Various Flavors of 'Activists' are going to HATE this
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Carbon...it's in the air
Hydrogen....it's in the water
Oxygen....BONUS...it's in the air and the water BOTH
Nitrogen...It's in the water.
it's everywhere..it's everywhere..
CHON is a mnemonic acronym for the four most common elements in living organisms
of course there are other stuff required too.
Phosphorous for example...and sulfur...and a whole handful of trace elements.
But they're there...they're common...and that means they're dirt cheap.
Since they're mostly in the dirt..that kinda makes sense.
Where am I going here?
Well listen up.
In previous episodes we discussed cellular agriculture which included synthetic meat and vertical farming in which VERY much LESS land ( and resources) would be used to do it all.
CHON is a step farther out.
It would replace the middle man in a manner of speaking.
FOOD FROM AIR, plus some trace elements. In China the air is so polluted the trace elements are in the air already.
It's not happening YET. Significant research and improvements in the technology has yet to be done.
But Plants prove it to be possible. They've been doing it for millions of years.
Are you, like, one of those clever people?
Very cool post!- gets the brain working.
I did some....errrrr.....kind of indoor growing once, in a cellar.
Where everything was fed to the plants.
From sunlight to the exact nutritional feed quantities - there was no soil.
The yield - compared to naturally grown....errr...plants.....was something like 10/12 times higher...
plants....right.
it's the science-y bit that was relevant, not the specific herbivorous species
I understand.
Well, this would seem like the food of the future ... how nice it would be to have this system in areas not suitable for agricultural production, since the system could be transported to deserts or areas where food is scarce, and provide the inhabitants a source of cheap and nutritious food (the astronauts would also benefit from this system) ... I do not know how the green activists could question this, but, "each head is a world"and those heads are very particular ... Well, now we have to wait for them to develop a domestic reactor (a electrodomèstico), so that the consumer can produce the necessary protein for its feeding.
The interesting thing about removing the need for intensive agriculture is that it's something that simply HAS to happen. It isn't a choice given that our available land mass simply cannot produce the volume of food required to sustain our growing global population.
The frustrating thing is that none of our governments want to get on board with this type of food production. There's way too much money tied up in existing food production practices. It's all very aggravating. Where's a progressive government when you need one? Oh.. right.
our growing global population.
not for long
if you believe the numbers.
why would you do that?
none of our governments
governments are insane.
why would you rely on them to do anything?
If lemmings can do it, so can people! That graph is proof "in the pudding!" Imagine if vert farms actually do work out! The father of necessity is creation. good stuff
That's an interesting prediction about our population and is quite possibly accurate. It would be similar to the standard population movements of any population of animals.
And governments sadly have a large influence as to how we progress as a society. So until they are removed from the equation we're better off attempting to control their direction.
governments ReAct.
be ProActive.
go around them.
I flew in an airplane once and just glanced out once in a while and saw woods and more woods and more woods. Arable land is everywhere unless you wish to pretend it can't be touched for unrelated causes and conditions.
you ought to fly west...like from St. Louis or Chicago to Seattle or Portland....lotta empty land out there.
The 48 contiguous states are larger than the country of India which supports over a billion souls.
Well that is quite something to wrap ones head around. It certainly would be very convenient... and no supermarket queues haha ;)
no supermarkets at all.
a food maker in every home.
Hehe sounds good to me 😎👌
I have very modest tastes when it comes to food.
we have something called a 'breakfast burrito'
it's ingrediates are scrambled eggs, meat (of some variety..bacon works) wrapped in a tortillia..
I can live off them...nothing else required.
Greece has something similar (if a bit more complex) which they call (sp) a Souvlaki...
when I was in Greece I ate a LOT of those too.
I had THIS for breakfast the other day... and I reckon I could live off it too... haha
Croissant Melt... which is scrambled egg, rocket, gypsy ham and emmental cheese. it is divine!! I am in love!
dunno what 'rocket' is.
looks good.
it is amazing! Has a mildly peppery taste... goes great on a cheese sandwich too :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_sativa
I don't think we have any of that in Texas.
I wonder if Jalapeño, Poblano , or Habañero would work? Perhaps not. Maybe just regular old black pepper.
The photos are so amazing I just saw a picture like this that very good thanks have shared @everittdmickey
Nitrogen is in the Air, Water, Ground, in plants, etc.
and your point is?