“The researchers achieved a dry cell weight and crude protein content of 120g/litre and 67.2 per cent with their modified P. pastoris. And the methanol-to-protein conversion efficiency reached 92 per cent of the theoretical value,” a report on the CAS website said.
The high conversion rate makes this protein production method very attractive economically.
“It doesn’t require arable land, is unaffected by seasons and climate, and is a thousand times more efficient than traditional agricultural practices,” Wu said in the paper.
“Moreover, the protein content in the micro-organisms ranges from 40 to 85 per cent, significantly higher than in natural plants,” he added.
These organisms also contain a complete amino acid profile, vitamins, inorganic salts, fats and carbohydrates, allowing them to partially replace fishmeal, soybeans, meat and skimmed milk powder in various applications.
What's the catch? Is it cancerous??? Where are they getting all these nutrients?
The ethanol production line also sounds like it improves emissions from coal if I'm reading correctly.
Well it's bacteria growing in a pool of diluted methanol sourced from coal just wondering about other materials needed & contaminants depending on the type of coal
Yeah I am interested in knowing more about how they do this and what their feed stock is. Vitamins and such don't come out of thin air or just methanol. They have to be feeding this yeast something else.
If it's sustainable to some degree though it would be interesting to see if we could replicate this action with non-fossil fuel materials. Like using starch derived from CO2. Algae tanks are also pretty efficient carbon sinks as well. If we could use that, or convert it to higher protein sources. Pretty much any way we could instead suck CO2 out of the atmosphere instead of pumping even more in from fossil fuels would be great.
What's the catch? Is it cancerous??? Where are they getting all these nutrients?
The ethanol production line also sounds like it improves emissions from coal if I'm reading correctly.
The catch is that you’re eating coal yoghurt.
The coal is used as feed to grow the culture, similar to how milk is used to grow bacteria in normal yoghurt.
Edit: methanol derived from coal or any other source would be used to feed the culture
ok but what is the catch
Sounds way better than bugs.
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Well it's bacteria growing in a pool of diluted methanol sourced from coal just wondering about other materials needed & contaminants depending on the type of coal
I'm assuming it would be purified first.
But there are tech available that allows for photosynthesis of methanol from CO2. So, it's not just coal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10540378/
Yeah I am interested in knowing more about how they do this and what their feed stock is. Vitamins and such don't come out of thin air or just methanol. They have to be feeding this yeast something else.
If it's sustainable to some degree though it would be interesting to see if we could replicate this action with non-fossil fuel materials. Like using starch derived from CO2. Algae tanks are also pretty efficient carbon sinks as well. If we could use that, or convert it to higher protein sources. Pretty much any way we could instead suck CO2 out of the atmosphere instead of pumping even more in from fossil fuels would be great.